A seventy-five-year generational spaceship is sent across the stars to establish Earth's first off-world colony. The passengers are born, live, and die aboard a vessel that will never see home again.Will they reach their destination? And if they do — what will be waiting for them?As the story unfolds in reverse timeline, the lives of the ship's generations reveal a deeper truth behind the mission. Political ambitions, hidden assumptions, and desperate choices shape a journey where many will never see the world they were sent to colonize.Those who hope to build a new future have never walked on Earth. They know their home only as corridors and machinery, stories and memories handed down from the first crew.Expedition of the Arcturus is a thoughtful work of hard science fiction exploring survival, legacy, and the choices that define humanity's future among the stars.First published in the hard science fiction magazine Perihelion.
A seventy-five-year generational spaceship is sent across the stars to establish Earth's first off-world colony. The passengers are born, live, and die aboard a vessel that will never see home again.Will they reach their destination? And if they do — what will be waiting for them?As the story unfolds in reverse timeline, the lives of the ship's generations reveal a deeper truth behind the mission. Political ambitions, hidden assumptions, and desperate choices shape a journey where many will never see the world they were sent to colonize.Those who hope to build a new future have never walked on Earth. They know their home only as corridors and machinery, stories and memories handed down from the first crew.Expedition of the Arcturus is a thoughtful work of hard science fiction exploring survival, legacy, and the choices that define humanity's future among the stars.First published in the hard science fiction magazine Perihelion.
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