Pariah

Criminal XV3161 has been sentenced to explore the Saturnian moon, Titan. The intent of the financial power, the United Space Agency (USA) is to solve the human overpopulation problem and make money at the same time by accusing, trying and sentencing millions of humans and sending them out into space. Most of those sent out never return...on purpose. In this story, XV3161 has landed on the Saturnian moon, Titan. Her mission, to explore the planet, to establish whether humans will be able to settle there, and to help the USA gain wealth. In defiance of the USA, XV3161 renames herself as Harriet, and plans to somehow survive on Titan as the first colonizing human being.Shortly after arriving, the sun explodes, destroying the Earth in the first shock wave following the explosion. The aftermath of the solar nova will be the complete destruction of the solar system. With the Earth gone, and the paltry few humans left alive in the solar system, it is a struggle to survive and to escape the advancing nova which will swallow the solar system in a matter of a few years. What will Harriet and the other astroNOTs as she prefers to call them do?

Autorentext

Patrick J. Morris, DVM, DACZM was a veterinarian at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park in California, USA. A life-long reader of science fiction, he was diagnosed with cancer in 1991. Writing science fiction helped Patrick survive the ordeal. Afterward, Patrick continues to write science fiction novels.