The Big Tomorrow

Joshua Lake wants to shoot for the Moon - literally. A driven entrepreneur in an era when rocketry is still fantasy, he pours everything into building a vessel that can reach the stars. But between his vision and liftoff stands a wall of failed tests, empty pockets, and a former partner who walked away. Lee Gorman took the money and the safe life. Lake took the debt and the dream. What follows is a grinding, unglamorous battle against physics, finance, and his own stubborn conviction. Every setback demands a sacrifice. Every forward step costs something he may not get back. The Moon - that bright, unreachable tomorrow - keeps receding even as he runs toward it. This is not a story about triumph. It's about what ambition costs when the dream won't let you go. Shaver's novel captures something many space-age fantasies miss: the sheer grind of believing in something everyone else thinks is madness. For readers who want their science fiction grounded in human struggle rather than easy heroism.