Immensus by Vincent Piana is a near future story that is all too realistic. Killian Wells runs a business called Immensus which is like a Bezos or Musk type business. Wells is an entrepreneur whose access to space is unlike any one else’s. Wells is singularly situated to mine gold and other precious minerals in space. He has technology no other business has, not even the US government.

Teenaged James talks his dad into taking him to see his hero Killian Wells’ hub for business. James loves space and has wanted to see the center where people can get on a rocket to visit there. By arriving so early in the day, people who work at Immensus have not even gotten to work yet. James meets Killian Wells on his way in to work and impresses him with his enthusiasm and intelligence, so much so that he invites him to come to the school called Ere Immensus where is two daughters and two other boys are the only students.

An all too believable group contacts Killian to force him to “participate” in sharing their technology which creates much trouble to say the least. Chaos breaks loose as Wells resists “participating” and the end of the book makes it clear that there will be sequels. It was very exciting to read and makes me think I see the future. I must now wait for the next installment.