To the Stars V-1

A Future Chron Collection

With the help of new technology humanity has attained the stars. And while that technology may be extending humanity's reach, it cannot change the human condition. That condition is always balanced perilously between progress and setback as these five stories show.

The first novelette, "First One Hundred," is the story of the first mission to colonize a planet similar to Earth. But soon a crew member was dead, the Captain was missing, and a rampaging AI threatened destruction.The second story, "First Dark Ages," finds the Earth for the first time in over two-hundred years without the management of its overseers, the Aggies (Artificial General Intelligence). And the Earth's governments without that crutch are failing miserably.As the Earth recovers form the First Dark Ages the next novelette "Second One Hundred" finds a follow up mission to the First One Hundred mission launched. But this mission was in trouble almost...