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On Distant Worlds was originally conceived of as a new type of multimedia piece. When those plans fell through, I was left with a story I still wanted to tell. So it will now take the form of a series of novels.

These will be a little shorter than traditional SF novels. It seems to be the format which best splits the difference between the needs of the story and my optimal project length, while still preserving certain aspects of the original idea in case the opportunity to produce the full project ever emerges. If the experience of reading the average novel can be compared to watching a movie, then please think of On Distant Worlds as a television show and this first book as the pilot episode (no, a TV show was not the original project; it was more this century than that).

Obviously I can’t deliver new “episodes” every week, or even every month. But I certainly can hope to produce at least one a year, and as the installments will certainly vary in form, function, style, and length; who knows? I’m as curious to see what happens as I hope you will be after reading this first installment.

A note about genre: I don’t know myself what category the extended ODW might conceivably be classified in, but I do know it’s not intended to be hardcore science fiction. The science within is for verisimilitude and fun only. I have a story covering well over a thousand years to tell you. Believe me; you do not want me wasting a lot of time on research. It’s an awkward time to try to write semi-accurate near-Earth colonial SF at this particular moment in history anyway. An exoplanet-hunting team could invalidate your story even as you write it. So any similarity between science in ODW and science in the real world is just pure good luck. And any differences between same will have been caused by the…

Well, I should let you find that out now. I hope you enjoy On Distant Worlds.

Brian L. Gonzalez

California, 2013