I'm two chapters and 2500 words into the new (and unexpected) project. This is likely to end up novelette length. We'll see about that. It's a story about the invention and implementation of the first jump drive, and the beginning of mankind's spread to the stars. This is set in the Jack Mack universe but some 1400 years before the novels.
I think maybe I'm seeing some subtle Asimov influences. Been reading through his catalog lately and revisiting stories I last read half a century ago.
