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Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! Book One of the Rocket McGee Series

Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! is the first book in the Rocket McGee Series and introduces four well-schooled and well-traveled but lonely young people about 12 years old who forge a reluctant and rocky alliance in a perilous, high-tech adventure to save one of their parents. Along the way, they discover friendship, a place in the world, and the super-human power to work together. In this world, magic lies in technology and human interaction.

Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! is available at the Amazon Bookstore in Kindle and Paperback formats from Rocketwhoosh!
Adventure Happens! Rock it like Rocket!!

Roan Reedling wrote Book One of the Rocket McGee Series, Avoiding Trouble! mainly with tweens and younger teens in mind, but it’s a sci-fi adventure that kids of any age can enjoy. You be the judge.

On present-day Earth, or nearly so, the world-views and objectives of secretly advanced technology companies are coming to a head. Envy and avarice rear their fire-snorting snouts. Trouble roils and flares, and four young people are forced to extricate themselves from a gnarly situation not of their making, though they have a knack for getting themselves into trouble too.

It all started mundanely enough. As Amelia darted from the locker rooms after the swim meet, out onto the playing fields of the New World Academy, and rushed to rendezvous with her schoolmate, Diana, in the thicket at the edge of the school grounds, she didn’t imagine for a moment falling down a rabbit hole into a roller-coaster ride for her life and the lives of family and friends, or being there at the birth of Rocket McGee. Who would?

Faraway Island is featured in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! […]

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Doopy the omicron Doople; science fiction vehicles in the Rocket McGee Series

Doopy the omicron Doople; science fiction vehicles in the Rocket McGee Series for kids, Rocket McGee:Back in Trouble! Book Two. Doopy is an omicron Doople.

Copyrighted Material from Rocket McGee: Back In Trouble!: “That name came from duple, a word meaning double or having two parts. Dooples were like deep-dive atmospheric exosuits, like the one developed in Canada by Nuytco Research Limited, complete with working arms and legs, except that a Doople was about twelve meters tall and had a double cockpit where an exosuit’s helmet or viewport would be.
The so-called double cockpit was actually two separate one-person mini-subs set side-by-side atop the Doople’s shoulders. They could detach from the main body for independent operation and either one of them could drive the Doople by itself. Inside the duple cockpit, it looked like the two capsules were joined into a single, larger cockpit, but that was just a holographic illusion created on the mini-subs’ interior panels.”

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Rocket McGee: Back in Trouble! Rocket tries to save the pilot of the Backfin

Rocket McGee: Back in Trouble! Rocket tries to save the pilot of the Backfin.

Brain configures Doopy to float on the ocean and Rocket rushes to help the pilot of the Backfin escape his cockpit after he crashes into the Doople. A Doople is like a deep-dive atmospheric exosuit, like the ones developed in Canada by Nuytco Research Limited, complete with working arms and legs, except that a Doople is about twelve meters tall and has a double cockpit where an exosuit’s helmet or viewport would be.

Copyrighted Material from Rocket McGee: Back in Trouble!: “Brain stopped ‘treading water’ with Doopy and let the Doople’s torso rise to float flat on the surface, face up, knees doubled under so his heavy plods wouldn’t pitch the bottom part of his torso back down in the water. In that position, the counterweight of the submersibles on his shoulders created a nice, level, and relatively flat deck about four meters long by four meters wide. The natural waterline was just under a meter from the surface of the deck. That could be adjusted, but if not, then Doopy’s torso would normally extend another two meters or so below the waterline.”

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Cutaway view of a Golden Caterpillar Pod from Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling

Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! aka the Flight of the Golden Caterpillar features the Magnetic Levitation Vacuum Train (Maglev VacTrain) built by the Hephaestus Corporation to run through tunnels they dug deep into the earth to connect one city directly to another, anywhere in the world, and get there in as little as forty-two minutes! Here’s a rough illustration: a cutaway view of a Golden Caterpillar Pod from Rocket McGee:-Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling, as it makes its way towards the center of the earth, and the kids make their way towards the front of the train.

Cutaway view of a Golden Caterpillar Pod from Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling.

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Faraway Island – from the Rocket McGee Series

Faraway Island is fast becoming home base for most omicrons. It’s featured in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! – the first book in the Rocket McGee Series, written for kids aged 10 to 14 by Roan Reedling. Read the book to find out more about Faraway and the omicrons through the experiences of  four well-schooled and well-traveled but lonely young people about 12 years old who forge a reluctant and rocky alliance in a perilous, high-tech adventure to save one of their parents. Along the way, they discover friendship, a place in the world, and the super-human power to work together. Get a Virtual Tour of Faraway Island. It starts right here, at the Rocket McGee Blog, right now!

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Faraway Island and the Anatomy of a Horseshoe

The inhabitants of Faraway island apply the terminology used to describe a horseshoe when they describe Faraway Island, because of its two most notable features, the concentric calderas, shaped like horseshoes!  Check it out on this Map Of Faraway Island, or on this Video Tour Of Faraway Island!

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