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Super-Earth Mother
published by EDGE SF&F
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Synopsis: Super-Earth Mother
Premise:
Super-Earth Mother is a hard SF novel that describes a new way for humans to colonize an exoplanet orbiting a distant star. Synthetic biology allows GMO humans to survive on a new world that is different from Earth (e.g. high gravity, alien biology). Initially, colonists are hatched from artificial wombs. Transhuman colonists then breed and populate the planet.
“Epilogue” Excerpt
Short story in Tesseracts 20 COMPOSTELA
[Ending of Super-Earth Mother]
Plot Summary:
Super-Earth Mother is a novel comprised of four Books, each set in a different time and place, with unique characters that carry the plot. This structure takes the reader from the Moon, on a thousand-year interstellar journey, to the birth of humans on exoplanet Valencia, to the adventures of colonization of a world filled with Paleozoic alien creatures.
Part 1: Walcott’s Folly
The Mothership is constructed on the Moon. Piloted by an AI (Mother-9, who is the Super-Earth Mother), it makes a 1000-year journey across 8.31 light years of interstellar space, to Lalande 21185, a red dwarf star with a habitable (fictional) planet Valencia.
Part 2: Strange New World
On arrival, Mother-9 launches two Lifeboats that splash-down on the Valencia’s Great Ocean. Each Lifeboat has two artificial wombs that hatch human babies made with synthetic DNA. After many failures, the nannybots raise the first human babies.
Part 3: Searching for Sanctuary
The first teenage humans struggle to survive in a wilderness filled with dangerous alien creatures and limited food.
Part 4: Utopia Compromised
Although created with Utopian ideals, human conflicts threaten the survival of the young colonists.
Part 5: Bug-Eyes
Colonists discover continent-spanning intelligent species that manage the ecology of the planet when Valencia’s red dwarf star becomes unstable with flares and sunspots.
Section 6: Survival
Humans learn to live on Valencia by cooperating with the Bug-Eyes. The aliens provide wood from the vast forests of Terra Firma and the colonists catch fish for all in the Great Ocean.
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“Epilogue” is the second story published in the Super-Earth Mother ficton (fictional universe). Published in Tesseracts 20 Science Fiction Anthology spring of 2017. “Epilogue” is a also the conclusion of the Super-Earth Mother novel.
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My novelette “Super-Earth Mother” is included in the Extreme Planets anthology, available from Amazon. The anthology features hard SF stories from Hugo and Nebula award winners David Brin and Gregory Benford, Peter Watts, Brian Stableford, and others. Edited by David Conyers, David Kernot, and Jeff Harris, with cover illustrations by Paul Drummond.
The anthology has stories set on planets orbiting distant stars, called exoplanets. There are thousands of known exoplanets, some of which are Earth-like, but bigger, called “Super-Earths.”
“Super-Earth Mother” chronicles the experiences of Mother Nine, an AI (artificially intelligent) robotic space-craft who starts a human colony on the exoplanet Valencia, using synthetic biology and artificial wombs.
Mother Nine’s Artificial Wombs
Original illustration by Mondolithic Studios
Remixed with permission by Guy Immega