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Emma Andersson

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 15

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Welcome to the year 2128! A space mission is ready to launch for a settlement on Mars. Get ready and buckle up!

Leseprobe

There was a humming noise with frequent intervals of fluttering and whoosh. It sounded like a bird flapping its wings inside a vacuum cleaner. Then, all of a sudden, it stopped. It seemed the bird had finished its flying lesson in a restricted space. Three minutes passed in silence. Then, suddenly, a knocking sound came out of the airlock.

Rewind back four months. It is the year 2128 and the mission to Mars is ready for launch.

You might be wondering how humanity got to this point? Let us rewind a further eighty years to 2048. A World Parliament had been established in the previous decade, and the space program had received more attention ever since national armies had been dissolved and peace had become the norm. Humanity planned investments in space colonization. The first step to make Earth-borns known in the wider universe was a short-lived colonization program on the dark side of the Moon. The project was shut down because humans had already set sights on a bigger goal, Mars.

During this time science made enormous leaps forward. It was even possible to spend holidays on one of the several space stations orbiting Earth. Despite scientific and technological progress, the human mind could not keep up with the mental effort to understand and grasp change. Instead of individuals being scared of travelling on airplanes, they were generously granted the option of being afraid of spacecrafts as well. The number of phobias and related incidents rose to new heights. If the world had gained in abolishing wars, humanity was still the same with irrational limitations. The space age had arrived, finally not only in fiction, and it scared the hell out of people.

Table of Contents

Beyond Earthly Matters with an Interlude

The Thin Line between Fantasy and Nightmare

The Aftershock