From The Earth: Complete

From The Earth: Complete

A Collection

Space was not only the final frontier, it was also the final abode of freedom from the Earth's creeping, soft totalitarianism.

Space meant freedom to act and to think and generations of the Jackson family pursued it, even if it meant leaving their home far behind, even if it meant death.

Starting from the Earth, the Jackson family will begin a journey to live as free men and women among the stars.

10 novellas, 1 short novel and 150,000 words, plus a future timeline that places each story within the context of the larger Future Chron Universe.

Contains the following stories in order:

Whatsoever You Do: A Novella

Finds Jack Jackson battling almost alone to stop a world-wide epidemic.

War Through The Pines: A Novella

Jack's son discovers a mysterious signal coming from Earth orbit

The signal is a precursor to a war in space that will soon engulf the entire world.

Vigilance: A Novella

Set on Mars, this story finds the Jackson family caught up in a cold war of the worlds.

They will have to find out who is causing the "accidents" before someone is killed.

To Tend And Watch Over: A Novella

This story returns to Earth and a Jackson member left behind.

Davide Jackson will have to find happiness in a "nanny world" controlled by others.

The answer, as usual, is to be found in his own back yard.

Union: A Novella

Follows a member of the family into the far reaches of the Asteroid Belt where the battle for freedom continues, as always, between those that seek to control and those that would live free.

Circle Of Retribution: A Novella

The action now moves to Saturn's moon Titan.

There a young Jackson is hindered in his mission to fly a fusion ship called a "skimmer" into Saturn's atmosphere and gather He3.

His sabotaged ship could be the end of the mission and his life.

Freedom From Want: A Novella

The Jackson family flees Mars after the government accepts management by AI's.

A Jackson leads the exodus of thousands but not without threats and efforts to stop them, forcefully.

Break Up: A Novella

Returning to Earth, this story finds a breakdown in civil institutions underway.

And the AI's are facilitating the break up for their own purposes.

Kuiper Station: A Novella

A Jackson family is on their way to establish a human foothold in the Kuiper Belt.

But their efforts are frustrated by agents of the Terran Federation.

This is the first story to introduce the concept of the Star Way, the laser-powered, light-sail driven space highway to the stars.

The Cloud: A Novella

This story introduces the construction of the Star Way, the greatest engineering project in the history of humanity.

But the building of such a distributed project (a beam repeater every 100 AU) over light-years of distance is almost impossible to manage.

First Interstellar: A Short Novel

The first voyage across the Star Way from Earth to Alpha Centauri.

But on a trip that will last almost four years ship time, there is plenty of opportunity for problems even without a saboteur onboard.

Extrapolated science based on current research.

Hard Science Fiction – Old School.