Genesis 2 [Paperback]

Over six million years in the future, after the sun has become a red giant, mankind has another chance to establish its civilisation on a terra-formed Jupiter, with the Genesis project. The expanding sun has stripped away the great mantle of gas leaving a liveable world.

There is a problem however. The Gnathe also live there and when humanity decides to interfere in their affairs, a chain of events is set in motion that will forever change both societies.

Using science fact as well as fiction to tell a remarkable story set in the far future, the author's use and knowledge and research of scientific details gives the novel an air of realism that enhances the story, making it believable and easy to imagine being a possible future, to show an eventual fate of the human race, and of our solar system.

Using science fact as well as fiction to tell a remarkable story set in the far future, the author's knowledge and research of scientific details gives the novel an air of realism that enhances the story, making it believable and easy to imagine being a possible future, to show an eventual fate of the human race and of our Solar System.

I have spent my life-time reading science fiction and now I have decided to write a story that I would liked to have read myself. Many of my friends have read this story in its raw state and enjoyed it then and I hope you will all enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Barry Woodham was born in 1943 and has lived in Swindon all his life. He spent his working life as a design engineer/draughtsman and worked on the nuclear fusion project for thirteen years. Finding himself with nothing to read one lunchtime he began to write the saga of the Gnathe and after many of his colleagues began to read as quickly as he could finish the chapters, he continued on and finished the book.Having been able to take early retirement, he now has more time to devote to writing than in the past, also spending time fishing and walking his dogs.

The Nano-ship had been created over 6 million years before the Sun had swallowed a vibrant civilisation. It was one of many, hurled towards the stars by the Hammer-drive, a nuclear explosive drive that produced an accelleration that would mash living tissue to a pulp. The radiation alone would annihilate anything alive, but on these vessels, nothing organic lived. Thousands of Nano-ships had set forth to the stars at sub-light speeds containing four nannite artificial inteligences, programmed to recreate mankind.

Here, locked in a solid-state neural net, slept the Nano-ship's crew. Four hibernating personalities existed here, self-aware and independant from one another. They were not human, nor were they computers, but a remarkable combination of both. It had been decided long ago by the project's directors, that one male and three female intellects would be the optimum mixture for the survival of the only hope to prevent mankind's complete extinction.