"As a long-time space reporter, I found Specific Impulse to be riveting. I kept reminding myself it was a work of fiction and I couldn't actually interview these people."


Miles O’Brien
NASA Advisory Council
Former CNN space
correspondent.


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  Space scientist Carin Gonzales and former submarine commander Jake Sabio are two strangers drifting separately through life when a mysterious explosion rocks them together. Now, the after effects have changed them both in unpredictable ways. Sometimes they can see better than before the explosion, other times they can smell more precisely and they move in ways that are clearly impossible. These and other changes come with a price. To make matters worse, everyone else who felt the effects of the explosion is now inexplicably dead.

Time is running out for Gonzales and Sabio. An infection from the explosion is slowly killing them and the Center for Disease Control would like to lock them up in a lab for study. Due to a tenuous string of seemingly unrelated events, Special Agent Will Greenfield wants them for questioning. In addition, contract killer Antonio Crubari would be happy if they would just hurry up and make themselves dead, and he’s willing to speed up that process.

A solution to their dilemma must be found quickly, but the more Gonzales and Sabio look for an answer, the more they are convinced they have run across something never before experienced by humankind. How are they going to resolve their problem when all indications are that the cure is not on our planet?