Rockets Versus Gravity [Paperback]

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A multi-faceted story that explores how small actions and changes can give rise to startling and unintended consequences.

Trajectory. Declination. Impact. Escape Velocity. These are rocketry terms that could also describe aspects of the human experience.

A lumberjack obsessed with space travel loses four different wedding rings, and each of the lost rings symbolizes something different to the person who finds it.

There are the members of a rich family whose dramas overlap with those of the homeless people living right next door, under the bridges of the Rosedale Ravine. The wheelchair-bound teen who declares war on a man parking his luxury car in the handicapped parking spot. The would-be rock star selling insurance, whose terminal diagnosis sets his life on a new and dizzying path.

And many others. Every person is connected to every other  genetically, coincidentally, necessarily, or randomly. Every action has a consequence, seen or unseen, from the sublime to the catastrophic.The flutter of a butterfly?s wing. The typhoon halfway around the world. Events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.Rockets Versus Gravityexplores the forces that change our courses and our lives, as well as the connections between us that we don?t always see.what I loved most about this book was how it all came together, how all the characters were connected in some way, which, as I see all the time, isnt that unrealistic.Scarsbrook provides readers with a mosaica series of narratives that straddle the line between a full-fledged novel and a collection of interlocking short stories. Embracing ideas of synchronicity and chaos theory, Scarsbrook jumps around in time and placeRichard Scarsbrook is the author of eight books, includingThe Indifference League. His short stories and poems have appeared inDescant,The Dalhousie Review,Prairie Fire, lC&