Leaving Earth
Leaving Earth
SUMMARY
After Dr. Hawthorne Crenshaw's university experiences a terrorist attack, he undertakes a titanic effort to colonize a new planet in an effort to rescue some small part of humanity from what he suspects is an unstoppable spiral into a Dark Age on Earth. Subjecting himself to tens of thousands of years of repeated cycles of cryogenic freezing and unfreezing to monitor his passengers, he and his AI T.I.A. shepherd Earth's first, and perhaps only effort into colonizing a new planet. You can also read this novel here: Read free novels online
Chapter list
- Prologue: Parting Message
- Chapter 1: Good Night
- Chapter 2: Thursday March 19 2099 Day One
- Chapter 3: Friday March 20 2099 Day Two
- Chapter 4: Saturday March 21 2099 Day Three
- Chapter 5: Sunday March 22 2099 Day Four
- Chapter 6: Cycle 2 Wednesday March 23 2133
- Chapter 7: Cycle 2 A Message for Earth
- Chapter 8: Cycle 2 Silence is a Message All its Own
- Chapter 9: Cycle 2 Unintended Consequences
- Chapter 10: Cycle 2 Three Paths
- Chapter 11: Cycle 3 Tragedy and Comedy
- Chapter 12: Cycle 3 Planning and Review
- Chapter 13: Cycle 3 Working it All Out
- Chapter 14: Cycle 4 Mount Ararat
- Chapter 15: Cycle 4 Settling in for the Long Haul
- Chapter 16: Cycle 12 Breakthrough
- Chapter 17: Cycle 12 Reaching Out
- Chapter 18: Cycle 12 Ships Passing in the Night
- Chapter 19: Cycle 12.5 Life Marches On
- Chapter 20: Cycle 13 Working Against Time
- Chapter 21: Cycle 13.5 Sacrifices
- Chapter 22: Cycle 13.5 Crossing Paths
- Chapter 23: Cycle 14 Coming Together
- Chapter 24: Cycle 14 What We Can and Can’t Do
- Chapter 25: Cycle 14.5 Enemy Territory
- Chapter 26 Cycle 14.5 Escape
- Chapter 27 Cycle 14.5 War
- Chapter 28 Cycle 15 Alone Again
- Chapter 29 Cycle 16 With Millennia Ahead
- Chapter 30: Cycle 30 Time is Relative
- Chapter 31: Cycle 42 Terrible Teen
- Chapter 32: Cycle 61 Men at Work
- Chapter 33: Cycle 62 Guilt
- Non-chapter Discord update!
- Chapter 34: Cycle 77 Phoenix Rising
- Chapter 35: Cycle 86 Happy Birthday
- Chapter 36: Cycle 155 Building a Human
- Chapter 37: Cycle 200 Steel Skin Electric Blood
- Chapter 38: Cycle 250 Read-Only Memories
- Chapter 39: Cycle 500 Plans and Results
- Chapter 40: Cycle 500 The Shower
- Chapter 41: Cycle 500 Drops in the Bucket
- Chapter 42: Cycle 1043 Priorities
- Chapter 43: Cycle 1472 Hearts
- Chapter 44: Cycle 1532 Columbia Trail
- Chapter 45: Cycle 1572 Illusion of Choice
- Chapter 46: Cycle 1574 The Past and Future
- Chapter 47: Cycle 1576 A Lovely Surprise
- Chapter 48: Cycle 1657 The Buzzsaw