A Deep Space Science Fiction Novel

by David A Schramm

Science fiction authors that nourish our dreams of exploring new worlds across the galaxy try to overcome the impossibility of human life traveling light-year distances through the fantasy of wormholes, cryogenic sleep, teleportation, faster-than-light drives and just plain magic.  However, we have discovered all physics relevant to interstellar travel and no such magic exists.  Is Earth our final frontier?

This is the record of a community established 250 LY from earth in the fourth millennium.  The story wrote itself.  I merely recorded it.  It flowed onto the keyboard so effortlessly and seamlessly that I now suspect it actually happened.  I read the story as I typed it.  It is a piece of history from our future in deep space.  It is how we escape. 

Jamestown’s government and citizens struggle to understand their new life, manage the complexity of establishing a new society in extremely foreign conditions and navigate through difficult times as the community adapts and matures.  The record illuminates the society’s economy, technology, politics, and personal challenges.  A serial killer is on the loose, terrorizing Jamestown’s exoplanet explorers. Organized crime is establishing a foothold in the economy and the society is devolving into something unexpected. 

This is how we escape, but is it a life worth living?