Böcker av Walt Richmond

CHALLENGE THE HELLMAKER is an intriguing novel by a husband and wife team of scientists who have been absent from the science fiction world for too long. Drawing on their exhaustive knowledge and imagination they have conjured up a near-future world dominated by the repressive U.N. Security Corps. The only barrier to its total dictatorship is a small group of international scientists isolated on a space station miles above the Earth... and the Hellmaker.

The Great Pyramid of Cheops: geometrical perfection.The Piri Reis maps: ancient cartographs that showed Earth as seen from polar orbit -- they have recently been confirmed by satellite photography.Myriad proofs that Earth has changed its axial tilt during near-historical times: perhaps as recently as 1450 B.C.In 1962 Walt Richmond developed the theory of the "solar tap": a source of electrical power so great that one installation could provide the world's power. In 1963 his research papers were labeled "Top Secret." The Richmonds refused to work under conditions of secrecy, but Walt worked out on his own the ideal structure for a solar tap. The result: an exact replica of the Great Pyramid.The kind of power postulated by the Richmonds' findings makes all the anamolies of history fall into place. This book was written as science fiction. Whether the story approaches the actual beginning of our civilization is something for each reader to decide for themself...

PROBLEM ONE: An Earthman is suddenly and mysteriously transposed to an alien planet: an utterly empty, completely lifeless outpost of a far-flung galaxy. The Earthman has no idea where he is, how he came to be on the godforsaken world, or how to get home.PROBLEM TWO: For company there is only a computer: a computer which has all the answers to all of the Earthman's questions. But the computer is programmed to give information only to those properly trained and qualified to understand it. The Earthman is not.SOLUTION: The Earthman must outwit the rigid electro-mechanical being to leam the secrets that will get him back to Earth . . . but the solution is the biggest problem of them all!