In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism. A global nuclear war is imminent. Interstellar probes from the
Breakthrough Starshot
project initiated by J. Milner and S. Hawking have discovered a habitable planet in the stellar system
Proxima Centauri
, just in time for the exodus of the elites. On board the EXODUS starship, the crew starts to experience strange things. The voyage to
Atlantis
, the new home for mankind, enters a mysterious and disquieting territory, where conspiracy theories about what is real and what is virtual emerge.
THE EXODUS INCIDENT is a novel about an interstellar journey, which connects science to virtual realities and epistemology. In the guise of a final investigative report, a scientific treatise discusses the physics and mathematics behind the story: the starship, the fusion thruster, the target planet, and the journey, addressing anomalous effects which involve relativisticspeed and deep space environments.