Last year I published
Mars: Genesis 2.0, a short story set in the very
near future that deals with efforts to set up a small colony on Mars
before an unavoidable extinction event on earth. No, we don't have a
massive asteroid with our number on it destined to hit us in 666 days
(as far as I know), but NASA announced yesterday that an oxygen
reclamation system will soon head to Mars that will turn CO2 into oxygen
in preparation for a future mission. My idea for reclaiming O2 and
hydrogen from the Martian atmosphere through atmospheric reclamation
units as the means to provide both water and a breathable air (also
methane and carbon for fuel and building materials) was based on some
rudimentary scientific knowledge and was not a novel concept. But if
NASA announces that it is exploring ancient dry aquifers and/or lava
tubes by dry lake beds as a site for a colony I'm suing the agency for
plagiarism.
Now,
given the current situation in the Middle East I sincerely hope that
terrorists are not into fiction as my
"End of Days" short story also
published last year is keeping me up nights.
If I were Stephen
King, I'd write a novel about a mild mannered university prof driven to
write prophetic warnings on his demonically possessed laptop that nobody
reads. The end is near. Fade to black.
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