GENERATIONS: GENERATIONS: Collection I (ePub)

A SCIENCE FICTION ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE SERIES

This is a collection of the first two books in the GENERATIONS series, plus a short story. The GENERATIONS stories are a science fiction romance and adventure series that will be following descendants of the Carter family through space and time.

GENERATIONS: 2115
Our story starts on an alien world in the year 2115. Jason Carter is conducting research that will impact every living person and will forever alter mankind's place in the cosmos.

An improbable and unexpected chance encounter with Kathy Miller destroys the comfortable and familiar order of Jason's life and sends him into a tailspin of emotional upheaval and turmoil. Kathy has arrived—in this place of all places—with her husband, Brian Miller.

All three were once close friends, long ago, when they were undergrads at Stanford. Back then, Kathy was Jason's girlfriend. She was the one-and-only woman he had ever truly loved. Kathy was also the woman with whom Jason had hoped to spend the rest of his life. But, unfortunately for him, it was not to be.

As if the turmoil caused by Kathy were not enough, powerful forces soon arrive that begin to destroy Jason's years of work and threaten to end his life—along with the lives of those he loves. And so, he and they must now struggle to survive and struggle to save what they can of his research. Not all will survive the destruction.

GENERATIONS: KATHY'S PERIL (a short story)
The year is now 2116 and Jason and Kathy Carter have returned from Earth to continue and complete their research together.

For Kathy, so much has happened over the past year, and more, that it seems her life is in a constant state of flux. She is no longer certain who she is becoming and just where it is life is taking her. Fortunately, she does have one anchor—one constant that she can hold on to—her new husband, Jason Carter. At this point in her life, without him, she would most certainly be lost.

But now that she is back on the alien world she hates, Kathy's insecurities and uncertainties are amplified. This leads her to sometimes act impulsively. Since her return, it just seems that Kathy can't stay out of trouble.

This short story depicts one of Kathy's near-fatal misadventures.

GENERATIONS: TRIAL and ERROR
For many consecutive months now, Jason and Kathy Carter have been separated by their research. Each has been working near nonstop. Their current efforts are a consequence of their previous success—success that, for them, now seems distant and long ago. Lately, it seems all they know is failure, one depressing failure after another.

They are both working apart on related projects in their individual research and development facilities. After a seemingly never ending series of failures, Kathy has had enough! She misses her husband, and she desperately needs a break. Jason is not faring any better. He is frustrated and exhausted, and he too is in need of a break. But that is a luxury he will not now allow himself … there is simply too much work to do.

Unexpectedly, circumstances change and force Jason and Kathy away from their work and back together. Their's is a bitter-sweet reunion that does not only involve the two of them. Just the same, they make the most of it. Unexpectedly, making the most of it entails taking a trip with an old friend. Along with two other colleagues, one of whom Kathy despises, they leave for a few days of fun and relaxation.

Unfortunately, fun and relaxation are short lived as Jason, Kathy, and the others with them suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death situation from which not all will survive.