Eyes of an Eagle

Science fiction, with real science in it, is hard to find today. Most current science fiction stories depend more on fantasy than on anything to do with real science and math. Just a few years back, the reverse was true with a vast array of stories that are still being read, re-written, and made into movies/television shows. The science fiction story is back with Eyes of an Eagle.


Daniel Karpinen’s job is technical editing for a large textbook and magazine publisher. He is living at the old family farm deep in the backwoods of Northern Minnesota and commuting electronically to his Chicago publisher. His personal life takes a sharp left-hand turn into the mystical stories told by his grandmother. Before Daniel understands what is happening around him, he discovers the mathematical key to controlling gravity. To survive his discovery, he will have to master both the magical mysteries of his ancestors and the science and engineering no one else yet understands.

Eyes of an Eagle isn’t just a walk through the science of the possible but a swashbuckling adventure story. The near future has never looked more thrilling, dangerous, or filled with possibilities.


Reviewer: Midwest Book Review: Library Bookwatch

Eyes Of An Eagle is a fascinating and original work of science fiction in which Daniel Karpinen, a textbook and magazine editor, discovers the mathematical key to controlling gravity. What Daniel has learned brings both great change and great danger, as well as evoking mystical forces beyond his immediate comprehension which propel him on an inner journey tracing the ways of his ancestors. Highly recommended reading for "science oriented" science fiction enthusiasts, Eyes Of An Eagle is an impressively profound (even spiritual), compelling, and entertaining story from first to last.

Reviewer: The Pioneer, Bemidji, Minnesota Molly Miron staff writer

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The story is set in rural northern Minnesota and features references to familiar North Country sites, weather and customs.

The plot revolves around Daniel Karpinen, a textbook editor for a Chicago company, who telecommutes from his family farm, and a local girl Tabitha Czeminski, a college student and Daniel's love interest.

While editing an article, Daniel extrapolates a set of equations that describe artificial gravity. From that departure point, he runs experiments that work into a space ship powered by anti-gravity. The author has degrees in physics, math and computer science, so his references to neutrino research, gravity wells and Einstein's theories persuade the reader such technology is not only possible, but the breakthrough NASA should be seeking.

. . . Gorden also weaves in mythology from his Finnish background, American Indian culture and his knowledge of hunting and woods lore.

Daniel's development puts him and Tabitha in danger from . . . aliens, as well as from a cell of anarchists, so the plot is full of tension. But Gorden includes humor in various forms ranging from the antics of Mover-over, the big Tomcat, to the sexual escapades of Daniel and Tabitha and the soap-opera-addicted ladies who have struck it rich investing in the stock market under the name of the Coffee Clutch Club. The spaceship project is the crux of the story. Daniel and Tabitha cobble their experimental model from an old Dodge transmission and other scraps from the farm junkyard.

The characters are charming, the plot is engrossing, the science is absorbing. Gorden should send Daniel and Tabitha, maybe accompanied by Daniel's weird Uncle Ben, exploring the solar system again.

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