It's that time, 'troopers... Get your ticket and board the Good Ship @Ooorah ... Join us as we launch and head towards a distant star system! It's gonna' take hundreds of years to get there so none of us will ever see it, let alone set foot upon any...
'The Note in the Corked Bottle' (Joint Winner!) #ProjectConstellations, by GeekAtlas
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For ScienceFiction's Anniversary Challenge, we had to produce a 10K story.
PROMPT: 'Inhabitants of Earth must take to the stars in order for the human race to survive. To remain would involve certain extinction. Where they go, what they encounter on the way, who and what they find at their destination is entirely up to you!'
For this one I took a nostalgic approach, and went with some World War II alternate history! Ultimately, I tried to pay homage to one of Science Fiction's greats, Phillip K. Dick.
Literary Warning - the narrative contains both American English and English English due to the split setting ;)
PS, I've added some dramatic YouTube audio - earphones, earplugs, and headphones advised - as is a PC/Laptop!
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Lyra dreams of a world she's never seen. There are doubts plaguing her thoughts, dogging her day to day duties aboard the ship carrying the last of the human race. Will the truth set her free or be her worst nightmare?
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Toxic clouds cover the Earth, and the remnants of humanity survive in domed cities, but when the clouds become corrosive, Peter McKinnon is charged with building an escape ship and leading humanity to safety on another world.
Tied for 1st place in 's challenge ProjectConstellations with "The Note in the Corked Bottle" by GeekAtlas.
