After one thousand days of dream-programs, the passengers were delivered from the arms of Morpheus, and as their minds reawakened, they remembered how to breathe. To counter the inertia of cryo-sleep, intravenous tubes fed them nutraceuticals, while the revolving motion of the hibernation chamber kept the dangers of atrophy at bay. On final approach, the centrifuge stopped spinning, the life-support disengaged and a thousand sleeping-pods yawned in-synchro, liberating the dreamers within. To prevent their tender eyes from screaming, a pearlescent light filled the chamber, and in the oxygen...
After one thousand days of dream-programs, the passengers were delivered from the arms of Morpheus, and as their minds reawakened, they remembered how...
To say The End comes all of a sudden would be a mistake. The End comes slowly, with one thing and then the next. The End began in the early years of the third millennium. The economic and industrial necessities of Earth's ever-growing human population caused unrestrained environmental damage, leading to a catastrophic greenhouse effect. This irreparable harm to the atmosphere invited the wrath of nature and a perpetual season of super-storms. Over-population and climate change created such financial strain, the collapse of the global economy became inevitable. Capitalism failed and the...
To say The End comes all of a sudden would be a mistake. The End comes slowly, with one thing and then the next. The End began in the early years of t...