Weaver's Launch

by Jay Crossler

Overview

To any primitive culture, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Nayt is an apprentice Weaver and learns hidden techniques to build and create objects much more powerful than any his medieval town has ever seen. Fiona is a hunter and stumbles across a secret cave that contains dark and dangerous magics powered by ancient robots. Together with their muscular friend Peder, they begin an epic journey full of swords and lasers that will rebuild the fate of their town, their families, and their entire world.

The first book of the series starts off as a classic Fantasy adventure novel that grows into a science fiction story of awakening and teenage growth. In a far-future world that has no metal, technology is banned by an oppressive priesthood. People that discover how to use their powers are shunned as demon worshippers.

Magic exists in many forms: apps that can be downloaded to give you advanced powers, tools that can be fabricated, and the most powerful - information available at the speed of thought. The entire story could be summed up with one question: If I was a farmboy from the 8th century, what would happen if I had full access to the modern Internet?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014319034
Publisher:	We Create Ideas
Publication date:	03/05/2012
Series:	World Weaver Chronicles , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	911 KB

About the Author

Jay started his technical career while still a high-school student. During school, he was the network administrator for Taegu American School in South Korea. He worked after school as a computer aided drafter at the US Army base that his parents were stationed at in Korea. He started building web pages when they were only text, and at age 14 wrote the official multi phone-bank modem dial-up script of the US Forces in Korea.

Jay joined the US Air Force as a communications officer, and wrote 9 unclassified and classified portals and command and control web tools for the military. While stationed within the Defense Information Systems Agency at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, he served as the Chief Web Architect for the Joint Staff and Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense. As a Captain, Jay was awarded the 2002 Pentagon Officer of the Year.

Jay received his BS in Information Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and his MS in Information Security from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is pursuing a Ph.D. of Information Technology at George Mason University, and has taught advanced XML and Web Service Masters classes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Jay currently focuses his research on Mobile Applications, Large Web Systems, Software Frameworks and Social Networking. His latest efforts and open-source projects are available on his blog at We Create Games.