Moon Village 2069 (short story, 2016)

While waiting for the spacecraft carrying the visiting European President to land at Moon Village at the lunar South Pole in 2069, a commentator recounts the history of events leading to the foundation of the settlement originally proposed in 2015 by ESA Director General Jan Wörner.

Published in print in: Eugen Reichl, Space 2017: Das aktuelle Raumfahrtjahr mit Chronik 2016 (VFR e.V., München), p.10-31. English/German parallel text.

Luna 2069 (short story, 2016)

My first shot at writing a story for Eugen Reichl’s Space 2017 was very different from the story which he accepted. This is a much darker tale of conflict, death, and machine intelligence running dangerously out of control. At the same time it recounts a little of the future history of Jan Wörner’s Moon Village concept. (6,300 words)

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