Make new
3 for 1
Prologue + About the Author + Other
More or less answers to how and why.
It all started around March of 2007. I, Canaan Skye Martin, noticed that almost
all futuristic science fiction revolve around two starting scenarios. Either
aliens come down and give us a reason for space exploration or humanity is
just already in space because it is so in the future we would just have to
be. I found these concepts to work and have their own excitement, but couldn’t
justify using them nor basing off them. I also noted that if there even is
a history to the story, it is brief and unfulfilling. I am under the mindset
that everything has a purpose. So what was the purpose for these people being
where they are and doing what they do? “Why?” is usually my question
to everything, also “How?”.
This all gave me the idea to make a chronological list of technological advancements
that could lead to humans one day inhabiting space and other planets that
started today and ends when I can’t write anymore. As the list continued
I began to require meaning and reason for advancements and the moving of humans.
Those “Why?” and “How?” questions again. Concepts
from watching the Discovery, Science and History channels sparked my imagination.
They fit in those missing pieces between my concepts, gave me a new direction.
Science fiction has always been a part of my life. Since I was young, as with
so many people, I’ve loved Star Wars, BSG, Trigun, Star Trek, etc. I’ve
never been a nerd to the point of owing a Storm Trooper outfit or a separate
room devoted to the USS Enterprise. These movies and shows were inspiration
just like the more intellectual TV stated earlier. I did not engulf myself
in the worlds crafted for me. I used the ideas and concepts of these worlds
to craft my own. Mixing and matching ignite to original concepts. Through
the use of a not so used device, the brain, and its imagination, I have kept
myself not only entertained but also thinking. It is the thinking that truly
entertains me.
Crafting a story that spans centuries is exceptionally difficult, especially
when starting with a chronological list of advancements. The more forward
in human existence I looked the harder it became. One device would require
others that I hadn’t started yet. Constantly going back, adding things
here and there, and reworking the times. Human grouping became required. Governments,
rebellious groups, militaries and so on came into effect. A story itself began
to form. I first called it, “The Story of Stars”. That wasn’t
too bad of a title, but one day I thought of “The Future of History”
and that made much more sense because the list resembled a history book.
Characters became required, since I was living with Ian Anderson at the time
he and I started as the first characters. Good friends started becoming characters
also like Matt Prescott and the people from Applebee’s. One side requires
opposition. The names of people I didn’t like were combined or tweaked
to make bad guys. Of course I made up names too.
From time lines to diaries to stories to whatever, finally humans had gotten
off the planet for new detailed reasons. It was a jumbled mess. Now what?
Where do they go from there? There where still conflicts and questions.
If you look around you will notice that there are people in the craziest of
places. They are atop active volcanoes, at the bottom of the ocean, and any
other dangerous place. Well our solar system has some extreme conditions throughout
it and guarantied there are people that would go there if they could. Some
for adventure, others for money, in fact there can be many reasons to go.
In our time period these reasons are not so feasible, but I just got humans
off Earth and the new events made room for new feasible reasoning. This is
when I set off to expand humans throughout the solar system, if not the galaxy.
Breaking the time line initially made it more difficult in the beginning but
has proved helpful later on. Events and ideas in the future require backing
in the past. It makes it so I can transport you back then so you may see why
it is happening. So you may choose your own side and spark your own ideas.
The logical alignment of emotions is complicated. Once timeline, events and
ideals are crafted, dialogue became the tool to create individualized and
different ideas within the characters. These eventually explain the reasoning,
or lack of, for their actions and the progression of the story. Every story
has many sides, I do my best to reveal all of them.
I am writing this book for me and anyone who thinks like me. It contains many
things like political statements, economical statements, sexual statements,
racial statements, etc. It was not written for this purpose, but because they
are part of life they have been incorporated into this story. This is purely
my science fiction art and because it is my art it is full of my emotions
and thoughts. It is my view of the world around me and what it could become:
some good, some bad, some neither, some both. I hope you enjoy but if you
do not it will not bother me, I enjoyed it and that is what matters.