Prologue
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Prologue
EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE, you make a thousand choices. You may go right, you may go left. Eat the salad, eat the burger. Each choice you make is only one of a number of possible choices.
You know that the choice that you make is an integral part of your universe. What you may not know is that you make all possible choices. If you choose the Burger, there is a universe in which you pick the salad. Each choice that could be made is made in some universe. We are each of us a maker of universes.
Each of these universes exists parallel to each other, every outcome of every event splitting the worldline to create another set of universes. Every event, from the first second of time until the last. Everything exists somewhere in the foam of universes.
This story takes place in one such universe. It starts on an Earth which is not so different from our own, but where the Laws of Physics are very slightly different from ours, and less forgiving to the dreams of Man.
CONTENTSPrologue
Introduction
1 Vanguard 46
2 The Beginning of the End
3 Aftermath
4 Starting Over
5 Ark City
6 Coming Storms
7 Birth and Death
8 Goodbye to the Solar System
9 Dreams in Transit
10 The Importance of Clipboards
11 Visit the Neighbors
12 Experiencing Hardship
13 Dreams of Otherwhens
14 Derelict drifting between Stars
15 A Planet Called Desolation
16 A Dream of Futures
17 The Generator
18 Contented Desolation
19 The Extermination of the Enloi
20 The Colony Called Gibraltar
21 A Planet called Prairie
22 Memories of Other Lives
23 Destruction at Lacaille 9352
24 Ambush in the Shadow of Stars
25 Layover at Trafalgar Station
26 Infinity in an Instant of Darkness
27 Leaving Trafalgar Station
28 Conversations with Unseen Hosts
29 Meet the Caretakers of Ross 780
30 Welcome to Wonderland
31 Battle of Wonderland
32 The Empty Ship Syndrome
33 Flight in Solitude
34 A Dark Dreaming
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