![]() ![]() On Earth the Lords of the Last Days lived with no need to care for the future of the world it was the wildest of times, and the saddest. On Thalassa, after a journey of 200 years, a colony blossomed, only to fall silent again. Primitive ships, at first, carrying embryos to distant systems, relying on machines to incubate and rear the first people of a virgin land beneath an alien sun. Over the centuries of knowing the end was at hand, humanity pulled together to launch probes into space. Soon the Sun would go nova the demolition of Earth was assured. A cosmic event was imminent, and would be close enough to touch. By the year 2001, the significance of this phantom particle was understood: it was a harbinger. The countdown to doomsday began with the discovery in 1956 of the neutrino, a particle with no mass and no charge. From the world's most famous science fiction writer, a poignant and vivid story of doomsday and beyond. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |