The Spark Before the Signing
(WorldFrontNews Editorial):- New York City, New York Jul 1, 2026 (Issuewire.com) – As the United States counts down to its 250th anniversary, Dex System author Ronald Bartholomew’s new novel E-Drive: The Good Ghost — A Tale of Choice reminds readers that revolutions — of nations and of technology — rarely begin with a signature. They begin with a spark.
In the novel, pilot Mortimer returns to the deep-space vessel Acheron to find its experimental E-Drive has changed while he was gone — a fixed, precision-engineered coil grown into something that “should not have been able to change shape.” When the drive ignites, it doesn’t just move the ship; it moves it through time itself, snapping the Acheron backward eleven seconds to escape a Hegemony blockade closing in around it.
It’s a fitting parable for the Fourth of July. Just as Paul Revere’s midnight ride was the spark that came a full year before the Declaration of Independence was ever signed, Mortimer’s connection to the Acheron — and the choice he’s forced to make in its ignition — happens long before the novel’s larger reckoning arrives.
“The Declaration was the moment everyone remembers,” said a spokesperson for Dex System. “But Bartholomew’s book is interested in the moment before the moment — the spark nobody was watching. That’s where E-Drive lives.”
E-Drive: The Good Ghost — A Tale of Choice is available now in print, ebook, and audio.
– Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Good-Ghost-Tale-Choice/dp/B0H34SSCBV/
– Everand: https://www.everand.com/book/1038056280/E-Drive-The-Good-Ghost-A-Tale-of-Choice
– Fable: https://fable.co/book/x-9798235710047
– Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/e-drive-the-good-ghost-a-tale-of-choice/id6768551185
– Bookshop.org:
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