Far Futures Book Four
Titan. The largest moon of the planet Saturn and second in size only to Jupiter’s Ganymede. Bigger than the planet Mercury, with an atmosphere, ice, and stable bodies of liquid, some have said it may be more viable for colonization than Mars. But is it? What would be the socio-economic impacts of such a colony? What about the political dynamics? The military implications? The scientific potentials?
Will it be the romanticized experience popularized in film and fandom, with state-of-the-art equipment; clean, orderly habitats; and meaningful experimentation? Self-sufficient systems? Supportive efforts and mutual cooperation for the common good?
In Far Futures Book Four, science fiction authors from around the world suggest how unlikely that is. They write of the distant future. Tales of grit and ammonia, methane rain, hard-boiled private eyes, murder, deception, social breakdown, and disastrous first contacts. Stories that stretch the imagination and test the limits of human endurance.
Tales of Titan by Zachary Taylor Branch, G.C. Byrne, Stephen W. Chappell, Isabel McKeough, James Palmer, Diana Parrilla, James Pyles, and Katrina Schroeder, with a poem by Mark Hendrickson. Edited by Robert J. Mendenhall.
Far Futures Book Three
Tales of broken generation ships and malfunctioning holograms. AI enhanced humans fleeing the solar system. Alien abductees taken light-years away. A NASA spacecraft highjacked in a perilous first contact scenario. Pirates and scavengers and more. These stories are all different, yet all answer the same fundamental question “What… or who is out there?”
With stories from talented and rising authors in science fiction representing the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, including: Glynn Owen Barrass, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Lawrence Dagstine, Caroline Misner, Charles Nadolski, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Robin Pond, and James Pyles.
Far Futures Book Two
The first interstellar mission goes horribly wrong; a rookie cop on a far planet in over his head; the world dependent on superheroes who harbor a deadly secret; a planet decimated by global climate changes faces a new Armageddon. Robert J. Mendenhall presents seven possible futures in which those scenarios play out. PLUS: Golden Age science fiction from the masters of their time:
- Tom Godwin
- Ed Earl Repp
- Jules Verne
- HG Wells
Far Futures Book One
A deadly attack on a Coalition survey ship on the edge of the galaxy. Murder at an early warning station in the Alpha Centauri star system. Refugees stranded in outer space after an asteroid strike decimates the Earth. Explorers overrun by the most devastating sandstorm in Martian history. An invulnerable superhero with a deteriorating heart condition.
These stories and more as RJM postulates what conditions we might face in futures far… and not so far off.