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Time Titans
Eighty years into the future, and this family of four has some problems. They live in a designer drug and sex club riddled neighborhood of Polyurbania, an urban sprawl which stretches between what used to be Boston and Baltimore.
The United States no longer exists, consolidated into a United Nation's region called Pan-America, which encompasses South, Central, and North America.
The Drexlers, a family of four, are holdouts in a slum in the last remnant of Hell's Kitchen, a neighborhood of Polyurbania in what used to be called New York City. They live in a war zone of conflicting gangs and crooked cops colluding to control the vast black market in illegal cigarettes.
Their only option for escape is to become Space Pilgrims, a temp agency for the burgeoning space mining industry. The discovery of an asteroid belt with a rare new element called “Neutrinium”, which is the heaviest element ever discovered, has ignited the growth of the space industry even as the Earth’s economy crumbles.
A race of genetically modified human beings with just enough non-human D.N.A. to be legally used as slaves has been created for mining the asteroids. One of the G.M.O. people, a super-intelligent slave nicknamed Simon Sez, has devised of way of weaponizing an isotope of neutrinium to create a massive Alcubierre Tsunami, which he plans on using to destroy the solar system and propel himself into an alternate universe.
The Drexlers, finally trying to immigrate to Space, are thrown into this strange universe with Simon Sez. There, they are forced to face the problem of Eternity, as Time slows down to almost nothing, and the family is confronted with the terrifying prospect of Eternal Life, with no escape from either each other or themselves.
The United States no longer exists, consolidated into a United Nation's region called Pan-America, which encompasses South, Central, and North America.
The Drexlers, a family of four, are holdouts in a slum in the last remnant of Hell's Kitchen, a neighborhood of Polyurbania in what used to be called New York City. They live in a war zone of conflicting gangs and crooked cops colluding to control the vast black market in illegal cigarettes.
Their only option for escape is to become Space Pilgrims, a temp agency for the burgeoning space mining industry. The discovery of an asteroid belt with a rare new element called “Neutrinium”, which is the heaviest element ever discovered, has ignited the growth of the space industry even as the Earth’s economy crumbles.
A race of genetically modified human beings with just enough non-human D.N.A. to be legally used as slaves has been created for mining the asteroids. One of the G.M.O. people, a super-intelligent slave nicknamed Simon Sez, has devised of way of weaponizing an isotope of neutrinium to create a massive Alcubierre Tsunami, which he plans on using to destroy the solar system and propel himself into an alternate universe.
The Drexlers, finally trying to immigrate to Space, are thrown into this strange universe with Simon Sez. There, they are forced to face the problem of Eternity, as Time slows down to almost nothing, and the family is confronted with the terrifying prospect of Eternal Life, with no escape from either each other or themselves.
139 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 18, 2014
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