MarsX 2

     Laura continued, “It's time Harold.”

“Time for what?”

“Time for us to get out there, mankind has sat around and allowed his tomorrows to become yesterdays. You and I are in our late thirties now, and while it's cool to be on Mars, I wonder if the only reason we're here now, is not because of that damn AI,” she said.

“I hadn't thought about it that way,” he said. “You might be right, we could still be thrashing about on Earth for whatever company is pretending to want to go to Mars just to get the government's money.”

“So, we have a new goal, just like Mars was our goal when we were thirteen. But this one is never ending, because once this galaxy is teeming with life, there are 200 billion others to explore. I can't imagine what those in that far time will discover, for us though, the Solar System is enough,” said Laura.

From MarsX 2 a work in progress. 

Mach's Metric - New World Edition

Starting today at 6 pm, you can start reading the updated and corrected version of my first novel "Mach's Metric" on my Substack:

https://futurechronpublishing.substack.com/ 

This version does away with the extrapolated science details (in the form of fictitious Sci-Pedia entries) and focuses on the story. The science details can still be found here on this website under the Story Background tab.

This version will be up until July 20 when it will be taken down and released on Kindle Unlimited.

If you read it, please leave me a comment, even if just to say, I read it.

Let us

Let us form of ourselves an army of starship troopers, gird on our tungsten armor, and go forth to do battle with Chaos and the minions of darkness. Let us unfurl the green and golden banners of our cosmic crusade, storm the bastions of vacuum, sow our sacred seeds among the stars, and take this galaxy in the name of Life!

• Marshall T. Savage