Rocket!

"Rocket!" is the fourth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation that has rendered her a genius and an athletic phenomenon. In Spacer, she works out the enormous potential of the wormholes she discovered in "Lieutenant." Though they only provide small openings through space, the wormholes will prove to be a tremendous boon to humankind.Excerpt:Excitedly Ell started picking up the components and laying them on the surface of the big table. The happy babble around her quieted as one by one the team members turned to watch her lay out a number of metal tubes. She heard them speculating,"What is it?""All those tubes. Some kind of plumbing project?"Ell laid a pointed cap at the left end and a conical device at the other, "A rocket?" someone asked.Ell grinned up at them, "Yep, a rocket."Ben said, "Why a rocket? I thought we were going to replace rockets with instantaneous transfer of materials through port/wormholes to satellites...