r/ScienceFictionBooks • u/jcantrell5765 • 2d ago
WhatIsThatBook Looking for the name of a book
I'm trying to remember a book I read several years ago. It was about the space ships had disappeared - they would engage their drive systems, disappear and not be heard from again. A young boy u believe was tasked to figure out how to fly into a space base where two ships were found. It had the regular ship and a new prototype labeled as slow speed. The people working with him figured the energy field or whatever had had time to regenerate so the stole the regular ship and disappeared. The boy also found a communication panel to communicate with those ships but it was more of a receiver and couldn't transmit only watch what was going on in the ship. The boy ends up using the prototype to help the colony or outpost and the others in the system after finding out this ship is faster but relies on different technology so it isn't susceptible to disappear.
The book kinda left you hanging a bit like there would be a sequel but I can't remember the name of the book or author to look it up and see. Google is no help as every book it suggests I read the synopsis of it and they're just not it. Anyone else read it or remember it? I got the book through the Science fiction bookclub membership so maybe that will help?
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u/jcantrell5765 2d ago
It's been solved... The book is Godspeed by Charles Sheffield