Nathaniel Robert Winters

Past the Future Nathaniel Robert Winters

Astronaut Dave O'Brien blasted into space in the year 2152, bound for Titan, Saturn's moon. His mission: to land and scout for minerals fast becoming scarce on Earth. En route, a fuel leak puts his life in jeopardy. The only option? A never-tried emergency procedure. "Dave, I am going to implement Van Winkle in 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1," the computer voiced. Gas was pumped into his space capsule, putting him into an induced coma. Dave was entombed in dry ice as a last resort. Food and oxygen soon ran out. Mission Control had no rescue plan. So Dave sleeps and drifts endlessly in outer space. David O'Brien wakes in the year 2125, hearing an advertisement for Sony-Augi-Google's new model of factory-made babies ringing dream-like in his ears. When he is fully awake, the modern man with the big head and seven fingers tells him: "We now have the technology to save your life. Then we need YOU to save the world." Dave's strange adventure is just getting started....