title: The World's Fastest Place: Bonneville Landspeed Racing
author: Alexandra Lier
description: <div><B>Alexandra Lier</B> (b. 1971 in Frankfurt, Germany) visited the famous Speed Week at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, for the first time in 1999. Immediately, a lasting obsession with fast cars, hot rods, and customs was born. She has returned annually ever since, taking photographs, honing her own skills at burning rubber with the best of them, and becoming a member of the &#147;salt community&#8221; herself.<br>Alexandra Lier has a professional background in marketing and is an award-winning art director and designer. She received her photography education at the Frankfurt Academy of Communicatin and Design. Living in Hamburg, Germany, she was a member of the girl Punk rock band Twiggy Killers and has recently picked up playing guitar for the band Clara Bow.<BR><br><B>Kevin Robert Thomson</B>, a photographer, author, and musician, is a gearhead himself. He has published widely in books, magazines, and underground publications on the hot rod scene.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></div>
zlib_text: SOLICITED BY THE ALIEN SCOUT
  
  THE NOVANS BOOK NINE
  
  ASHLYN HAWKES
  
  CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Other Books By Ashlyn Hawkes
  About the Author
  Special Author Note
  
  T
  1
  Gusar
  he sun is shining brightly as I try to bang out a dent in the metal of my biwheeled centuricmobile.
  They’re the fastest vehicles we have on Kuria, but they aren’t the fastest ones Novans have ever
  made. Those had been the centurics, but those had been properly calibrated to the density of the air
  and the gravitational pull for Nore. Our original home planet had been nearly flat, which helped with
  having an incredibly fast vehicle. Kuria has so many hills and crests and mesas that we can’t possibly
  risk such a swift vehicle here.
  Zink shakes his head. “Why bother? You know you’re just going to hit into something else.”
  “Very funn