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Genesis2
Genesis2 is the third book in The Galactican Series. As such, it contains numerous scientific and technological milestones that mark critical waypoints of mankind’s evolution into a spacefaring society. And yes, for some of you that means way too much science and technology, and not enough story—for which I do not apologize. I’m trying to put the science back in science fiction. If that’s not for you, you can always find yourself a good Marvel Comic.
The Galactican Series represents a new subgenre of literature—a merger of hard SciFi and creative nonfiction. In reading SciFi I think I’ve only found two recent examples of true hard SciFi—Weir’s Martian and Hadfield’s Apollo Murders. Good reads both of them, but neither represents evolutionary next steps that will one day take us to the stars. Their science and technology are plenty hard but lacking in architectural detail if one is to plan a trip to even the Kuiper Belt or the Oort Cloud, let alone the nearby stars.
Recall Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. He described it as a non-fiction novel, which later came to be called creative nonfiction (best example, Junger’s Perfect Storm.) Both books have in common that they seek to tell the story of a significant event that happened in the past but is missing a lot of important detail which is happily made up for by the author’s imagination.
The Galactican Series borrows from both subgenres. You get the accuracy of hard SciFi but with enough detail to see how a new propulsion system can evolve into one that is good for 10% c, or how a current Homo sapiens can be engineered into a radiation-hardened, space-adapted Homo galacticus. And as with creative nonfiction, you get the missing scientific and technical details such that you really can come away believing the future actually could happen this way!
Hopefully, as you wend your way through each volume, stopping to Google this and that, the way to the stars will become ever clearer, ever more reachable. Taken in toto, The Galactican Series is a plausible history of the future. I have at least three more volumes planned. Book IV, Enceladus, will venture to Saturn’s most intriguing satellite with Deuterium-Helium3 fusion. It will again look for microbial life but in a primordial subsea setting such as life evolved on Earth billions of years ago. Book V, working titled Eris, will take us deep into the Kuiper Belt with positron catalyzed nuclear fusion—yes, this is doable antimatter technology! Book VI, as yet unnamed, will have its sights set on Alpha Centauri. I can tell you it will most likely be a generation starship. I can also tell you that positrons won’t achieve the 0.1 c cruise velocity we need, so it will have to be some form of antiprotons or perhaps a warp drive. Wish me luck!
The Galactican Series represents a new subgenre of literature—a merger of hard SciFi and creative nonfiction. In reading SciFi I think I’ve only found two recent examples of true hard SciFi—Weir’s Martian and Hadfield’s Apollo Murders. Good reads both of them, but neither represents evolutionary next steps that will one day take us to the stars. Their science and technology are plenty hard but lacking in architectural detail if one is to plan a trip to even the Kuiper Belt or the Oort Cloud, let alone the nearby stars.
Recall Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. He described it as a non-fiction novel, which later came to be called creative nonfiction (best example, Junger’s Perfect Storm.) Both books have in common that they seek to tell the story of a significant event that happened in the past but is missing a lot of important detail which is happily made up for by the author’s imagination.
The Galactican Series borrows from both subgenres. You get the accuracy of hard SciFi but with enough detail to see how a new propulsion system can evolve into one that is good for 10% c, or how a current Homo sapiens can be engineered into a radiation-hardened, space-adapted Homo galacticus. And as with creative nonfiction, you get the missing scientific and technical details such that you really can come away believing the future actually could happen this way!
Hopefully, as you wend your way through each volume, stopping to Google this and that, the way to the stars will become ever clearer, ever more reachable. Taken in toto, The Galactican Series is a plausible history of the future. I have at least three more volumes planned. Book IV, Enceladus, will venture to Saturn’s most intriguing satellite with Deuterium-Helium3 fusion. It will again look for microbial life but in a primordial subsea setting such as life evolved on Earth billions of years ago. Book V, working titled Eris, will take us deep into the Kuiper Belt with positron catalyzed nuclear fusion—yes, this is doable antimatter technology! Book VI, as yet unnamed, will have its sights set on Alpha Centauri. I can tell you it will most likely be a generation starship. I can also tell you that positrons won’t achieve the 0.1 c cruise velocity we need, so it will have to be some form of antiprotons or perhaps a warp drive. Wish me luck!
362 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 12, 2021
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