The earth is doomed. But a new world has been discovered that has all the right ingredients to sustain human life. The vessel Seeder will travel four thousand years with its crew members and colonists to this new seed planet to ensure humanity lives on.
But the stasis pods malfunction. When the crew is revived they discover they've been traveling for the past eighteen million years, and the colonists are all gone. And it only gets stranger.
Up front I think it's fair to say I'm not a fan of serialised novels and I'm not convinced that 32 pages can count as book 1 of anything. Although the blub sounded interesting so I thought I'd give it a go. And it starts well. It's a tense story with some good mystery. There's some good character interaction and I thought that I'd made a good choice in giving it a chance.
Then I reached the end and it ranks with Bobby Ewing waking up in the shower as a disapointing ending. In a full novel I would probably have kept reading and maybe the rest of the story would have made up for it, but instead it was a thankfully short read.
A deep space mystery. The Seeder, a ship with colonists and crew in stasis starts off on a 4,000 year voyage. The crew is awakened and discover they have been in stasis for 18 million years and all the colonists are missing. They test the stasis system for two minutes, but the test subject is killed by cylinder. Another crew member disappears and another crew member is missing. At the end we learn that this was a test, and the real mission leaves in one hour.
Only a very short story but very well written. The concept is interesting and I was drawn straight into the story. I'll definitely be picking up more in this series. It is very short but that shouldn't be a problem if it is still free.