A colony ship that cannot possibly survive the journey. A corporation that needs one more true believer to sell the dream.
On the 3D-printed regolith habitats of the Moon's south pole, urban planner Carolyn is hired to stress-test humanity's boldest project: a multi-generation, cryosleep voyage to 18 Scorpii. Her models keep reaching the same verdict: The society aboard is doomed to fracture long before it ever arrives.
But the corporation's PR machine has other plans for her conclusions, and for her.
What do we owe the unborn generations we would strap into someone else's dream?
Carolyn is a quietly tragic, character-driven hard SF novelette for readers of thoughtful generation-ship fiction. It is the prequel to the forthcoming novel, Through.
