Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Book Review - The Berkelium Mass - Book 1

This book by Doug Talbott is a fascinating concept.  A person creates an AI Digital assistant with whom they partner to develop a new type of power source, a perpetual motion power generator, and a reactionless space drive, enabling space flight.  The story starts pretty techy, so some readers may get lost on what is being covered, but it settles down later in the book. There were some things indicated in the story that I had to research to validate if they could even exist as we know them now.

This is book 1 of a 3 part series.

I know Doug personally as I was stationed and roomed with him in the U.S.Air Force at Ellsworth AFB, SD.  When I roomed with him back in 1979, his house had multiple bookcases of sci-fi books, which you can see reflected in his writing and background.  He is also passionate about 3D printing, a key factor in this book, which explores how they produce new power sources and reactionless space drives.

If you are into tech sci-fi, I recommend this book.