The League boarded Moriarty's airship in which the Cavorite was subsequently lost when Mina Murray released it, and allowing to propel into space along with Moriarty who desperately clung to it from letting it escape from his grasp. Moriarty used the Cavorite in powering his own airship to threaten Britain and bombing London's East End, destroying what is left of The Doctor's criminal empire. The League brought the Cavorite back to their employers at British Intelligence, not realizing at the time, that they were actually delivering it into the hands of the "Napoleon of Crime", Professor James Moriarty. The Cavorite propelled them through the top of the tunnel into the Thames River. The Doctor's men burst into the chamber to stop them, but the group linked hands, and unlocked the mineral's containment device. At the behest of the British Intelligence agency MI5, members of The League broke into The Doctor's secret base in Limehouse and recovered the Cavorite sample. In July of 1898 however, Chinese criminal mastermind The Doctor stole Professor Cavor's precious Cavorite with plans of using it in the construction of a series of airships. Naming it after himself, Cavor offered the use of Cavorite to the British Empire for a planned lunar expedition scheduled to take place at the turn of the century. The material was invented in the latter half of the 19th century by Doctor Selwyn Cavor. Functionally, Cavorite was designed to shield a craft from Earth's pull, allowing easy flight. It can also shield other materials from its effects. * James Turner is technical administrator for the Monitor's Web site.Cavorite is an artificial mineral that possesses anti-gravity properties (also referred to as a "gravity-blocking substance"). As with many Niven works, sexuality plays an important role, although always handled tastefully. The gradual growth of Jemmy from a naive young man/boy to a worldly and somewhat cynically pragmatic adult is believable, as are the other characters in this richly textured novel. No one knows what lies at the end of the Road, and Jemmy is driven to discover the final fate of that spacecraft.Īt his best, Niven tells travelogues. This long strip of fused land was created by the landing jets of the Cavorite, one of the two landing shuttles used to bring people to the planet before it mysteriously disappeared. Jemmy Bloocher is two years away from taking possession of his family farm when he kills one of the mysterious merchants who travel back and forth across the colony planet of Destiny.įleeing for his life, he embarks on a trip down the Road. Like "Finity's End," Destiny's Road by Larry Niven is also a coming-of-age story. This latest edition serves both to move the narrative of the Merchanter war toward a conclusion and to allow a more detailed view of shipboard life. As the Finity's End travels a dangerous but critical mission to forge a new political reality, Fletcher comes to trust and finally become a part of the family he had once resented.Įven though the Merchanter universe is well defined by Cherryh's body of work, the reader can drop right into the story. When his dead mother's ship, the Finity's End, comes to pick him up and return him to the insular life of a Merchanter Family, he rebels against everything and everyone in sight. Fletcher Neihart has lived his young life on Pell Station, studying the indigenous intelligent life on Downbelow, and being persecuted for his heritage as a Merchanter child (the traders who travel between the stations) left behind due to war. Cherryh.įinity's End is a classic coming-of-age story, set against the dying embers of the four-sided war between Earth, Union, the stations, and the Merchanter ships. The Merchanter universe has been enriched yet again by C.J.
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