About Moraturi Lost: Paradisi Chronicles (Lost Mission Series Book 2) by Marti Ward:
A new and daring colonization mission, a wormhole to traverse… Getting there is the least of the problems! It’s been done before – what can go wrong?20-year-old Veterinary Nurse/Trainee Medical Officer Eva Hughes is junior officer on SS Moraturi, transporting 500 colonists to New Eden. Eva’s responsibility is the domestic and farm animals they are bringing, but she is working towards qualifying as both a veterinary and a medical doctor. When you’re 2.5 million lightyears from any other help, you can’t afford people who only have single skill… After a gamma burst in the wormhole, Eva finds herself looking after colonists whose cryobeds failed, and who now show memory loss for specific things. When another wave of radiation hits, the ship slips out of the wormhole, somewhere, sometime… and Eva finds herself in charge of an impossible mission. The quick trip through the wormhole has turned into an epic journey of biblical proportions. The saga begins…
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Author Bio:
Marti Ward is an award-winning writer, teacher, researcher and entrepreneur known for his serial startups and his interdisciplinary work from the behavioural, cognitive, health and information sciences to environmental and robotic engineering – but he writes under several variants of his name.Marti hasn’t been into space yet, but has travelled extensively on this planet – living in half a dozen countries and speaking and reading a variety of languages with varying degrees of fluency. He hasn’t yet built an AI as sophisticated as Al – but is working on it, and has around 300 publications relating to AI, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics and Robotics.Marti was brought up reading a wide range of books, fiction and non-fiction – exploring Encyclopaedia Britannica at the age of four when his parents wouldn’t answer his persistent “How?” and “Why?” questions.
Marti’s first fantasy story, “Ghostie” was published in print and audio form when he was seven years old – being used in teacher training. But Marti particularly enjoyed the Robot stories of Isaac Asimov. Intelligent AIs from his childhood, Astroboy and HAL, featured in his PhD thesis – and these stories and characters might just get mentioned in his Paradisi writing too. But he really fell in love with Anne McCaffrey’s PERN stories – so don’t be surprised to see influences from that source either.What’s critical about the stories of Clark, Asimov and McCaffrey, about Real Hard SF, is that they seek to explore the scientific and socialogical implications of new interesting or plausible elements and the measures that are put in place to control them.Marti is tickled when people see these influences…
Personal Note: I don’t much like the authors whose eyes, like their characters’, glaze over at the first mention of some overly simplistic pseudoscientific explanation. I don’t think they are being faithful to the genre. Hard SF, Real SF, is about exploring the implications of what we currently know and hypothesize in science, projecting where that will take our technology and our society, and what problems will emerge… and figuring out how we will deal with them.
If you’re interested in what it’s like to be a scientist, engineer, astronaut or whatever, then we are doing you no favours if we gloss over that process as ‘boring’ or ‘complicated’. And as a scientist and author, I don’t get to achieve my goal of understanding more about the actual science and technology, and its ramifications.