Hard science fiction where the physics is real, the math holds up, and the heroes carry welding hoods instead of ray guns. The S.P.H.E.R.E. Saga by Joseph Matthew Bennett.
Work boots are in the black.
Nobody gave Ford “Cowboy” McCallister permission to build a way off Earth. He built it anyway — on an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, with a crew of welders, roughnecks, electricians, and farmers the world had already told no. No permits. No contracts. No government. No cartel. Just a laser to lift things, a net to catch things, and a whole lot of people who knew how to work.
Then the world found out.
The S.P.H.E.R.E. Saga is hard science fiction for people who’d rather read about a weld holding than a warp drive failing. The physics is real. The math holds up. The heroes carry welding hoods instead of ray guns. And the enemy isn’t an alien — it’s the paperwork, the warships, and the men in suits who want a road they didn’t build.
Book One of the S.P.H.E.R.E. Saga
A rig full of nobodies puts a 1967 Ford Galaxie into orbit, and the United States Navy fires on a car full of grandpas on live television.
The exodus will not be televised. It will be built.
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Book Two of the S.P.H.E.R.E. Saga
The world is watching now. Cowboy answers a United Nations that wants to make the whole thing illegal by lunchtime — and takes the next step, the one nobody’s taken since 1972.
Work boots are in the black.
Joseph Matthew Bennett has spent nearly three decades building things that have to hold — commercial construction in North Carolina, from sitework to the day the keys get handed over. He knows what a crew looks like at five in the morning, what a weld sounds like when it’s right, and what it costs to be told no by people who’ve never swung a hammer.
The S.P.H.E.R.E. Saga is what happens when those people decide to build something bigger. He lives in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.
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