Celestials
Leaving Earth
Note: Because this is “hard” science fiction — meaning it has substantial elements of reality — if you would like to challenge my technical details and thereby influence the story and the future, please contact me, especially if you’re an astronomer, engineer, or architect.
Populating Mars is silly. And NASA knows it.
Really. NASA knows it. If you listen to what they say publicly you “know” their every effort points to a Mars colony as the populated answer to humanity’s space future.
Hearth, the first human colony in space, looks like a massive white-gold wedding band gleaming in the dark. Because of Hearth’s structure and the external layer of hybrid hyper-ices, it has become humanity’s most audacious engineering achievement.
The final cover will convey both the structure and the idea that the colony, like the ideas it represents, is a work in progress.