Michael and Jamie live in Dome 17. The last place safe for humans, or any life, on a dying earth. They are adventurers who have explored other domes, but everywhere else is dead. Will Dome 17 meet the same fate? The committee has a risky plan to try out unproven technologies: a faster than light scout ship, and teleportation. Both technologies have severe limits. Only two people can be carried aboard those FTL scout ships for a one way journey, Teleportation can only work when a receiving pad is at the target location. So can they make both these technologies work to save the last of humanity? One hundred years before, the people of earth had built gigantic colony ships with enclosed habitats. They were filled with flora and fauna and people. These ships were launched into space knowing it would take generations to reach other solar systems. Those space pioneers would live out their lives in transition to a new world. But the colony ship program was considered a dismal failure. All of the colony ships were considered lost. Will Michael and Jamie travel to one of the colony ships? Will it be a derelict? Or will it be a chance for a new home for humanity? What will they find as they try the recovery of a colony ship?

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From the Author

This is the first book in the Colony Ship Eschaton series.

About the Author

I have read science fiction since I was a small child. For over twenty years I have been making notes, writing outlines, and drawing deck plans of the Colony Ship. These jumbled ideas have finally coalesced into book form in the Colony Ship Eschaton series. Damon Knight's "The World and Thorinn" and Robert Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky" showed me how bizarre a generational spaceship environment could be. Those books, and many others, have given me hours of pleasure.

I have a diverse background. Emergency Medical Technician, then earned nursing diploma, became a Registered Nurse (RN).
I worked as an RN for 10 years in various ICUs, cardiac, surgical, and medical. I saw lots of people die, and I also listened to some really amazing people share their life stories with me.

I continued my studies by earning a Bachelor of General Studies, a Master of Ministry, a Master of Divinity, and a Doctor of Ministry. The Radio Good News Messages were done over a ten year period, from 97-07.

I read all kinds of literature.

And as you may be about to discover, I also like to write and have been knocking these ideas around for a long time.

My major project is the Colony Ship Eschaton series, which as I said I have worked on for over 20 years. 1. Recovery of a Colony Ship. 2 Exploring the Colony Ship. 3 Unknowns on the Colony Ship. 4 Hunting on the Colony Ship. 5 Mysteries on the Colony Ship. 6 Discoveries on the Colony Ship.

I have four grown up daughters, a delightful wife, and two wonderful dogs, and two ancient cats. I also live with a chronic associate, a painful form of degenerative arthritis. I have lots of mechanical parts inside my body, and in some ways I truly am a cyborg.