NEBULAR 1: The Triton Base

NEBULAR 1: The Triton Base
Author: Thomas Rabenstein
Publisher: SciFi-World Medien Verlag
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2024-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

NEBULAR is a science fiction series that takes you to the year 2113. It is an era in which nation states are a thing of the past. United in the Solar Union, humanity faces its last great challenge: the exploration of the outer Solar System. The Union Fleet already maintains scientific outposts on the distant moons of the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Private companies are prospecting for raw materials and spaceships shuttle between the planets. The causes of earlier civilisational setbacks, such as wars, disease and poverty, have been overcome. Around ten billion citizens of the Solar Union populate the Earth, and another 250 million people settle in the growing colonies on the Earth’s moon and Mars. The furthest outpost from Earth is on Neptune’s moon Triton. It is a frigid world populated mainly by scientists and private companies. The crew’s main task is to explore the Kuiper Belt with its dwarf planets, also called the Outer Ring. Astrophysicists use the remoteness of the celestial body to advance the search for extraterrestrial life. The scientists of the new SETI project use their receiving antennas to examine neighbouring stars for potential radio signals from alien civilisations. A total of around two thousand men and women are on duty at the Triton Base. The icy deserts on Jupiter’s moon Europa, the dust storms of Mars and the primordial hydrocarbon seas on Saturn’s moon Titan have been seen by space travellers from Earth with their own eyes, but so far they have not found extraterrestrial life. One of humanity’s most important goals remains to make peaceful contact with alien civilisations in space. Unconsciously, most scientists hope that these life forms are similar to us and that communication is possible. So far, the search has been unsuccessful, but this does not rule out the possibility that they exist in the vastness of space and are already observing us.

TITAN: A Novel

TITAN: A Novel
Author: Mado Nozaki
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685798098

In the distant future, society has all but eliminated the need for a sentient workforce. Thanks to an all-powerful AI network known collectively as Titan, humanity is now free to indulge in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. But one day, hobbyist psychologist Seika Naisho gets a job offer from a mysterious man by the name of Narain Srivastava--one of only a handful of people in the entire world who is still traditionally employed. Narain wishes to enlist her expertise in the wake of a sudden and inexplicable malfunction in the AI network: as a therapist for Titan itself.

Concrete

Concrete
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1925
Genre: Cement
ISBN:

Forsaken

Forsaken
Author: Richard D. Bangs
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011-07-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462032311

For the dedicated scientists who man a remote listening post on one of Saturn’s moons, 2088 has been a pretty quiet year. After nearly 130 years of fruitless listening to the silence of the void, the men and women who represent mankind at the edge of the solar system are humanity’s best hope for first contact. None of the specialists on duty could have ever predicted what is racing toward them—or what it means for humanity’s future. Jarrod McKinley and two others are stationed on a listening post orbiting the moon Titan, part of man’s latest effort to make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. What the Titan base crew is about to experience will shake the foundations of the belief that mankind is alone in the universe. Without warning, a massive energy wave sweeps around Saturn and blasts the post. McKinley and his crew survive the initial blast, but the listening post is severely damaged. As a rescue mission is launched, a strange signal is discovered within the energy wave. Just as things seem under control, an explosion rocks the station; one of the crew is killed, but McKinley and Liza Alvarez jettison in an escape pod. McKinley senses some evil has targeted him and the newly discovered signal. As McKinley and Alvarez escape several attempts on their lives and race from Saturn to Earth, they survive repeated attempts to silence them, and they discover a plot that shakes the search for first contact.

Doorway to Legal News

Doorway to Legal News
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Legislative Reference Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1962
Genre: Nuclear energy
ISBN: