By Chronohawk

A Visitor to the Future (working title) is a science fiction and futurism novel set in the year 3021 and onwards. It covers a wide variety of areas, including the concepts of artificial intelligence, post-humanity, and the implications of life in a post-scarcity solar system. The narrator of the novel explores the new society through their own growing knowledge of the Consortium, having just woken up from a thousand years of cryogenic stasis. If you just want to start reading, click here.

Prologue

"Cryocontainment offers the ultimate in medical breakthroughs - to hit the pause button on life itself. To turn the doctor's enemy into his greatest ally - to truly have time upon our side."
Andreas Grant, Applications of Cryogenics-based Technologies, 2028

Our narrator awakens in the year 3021 to find that the solar system has radically changed. A society-wide system, the Consortium, now oversees the vast majority of human existence. Can there be a place for a human relic in this new state?

0. Death's Door
1. Awakening
2. The Consortium
3. A View from the Void
4. Bio-development
5. Perpetually Good Hair Day
6. Monitoring, Privacy, and Auditing
7. Handshakes and Ethics
8. Tea and Tastes
9. Aldev and a Lecture
10. No Going Back, No Gravity
11. Seals and Sensational Scents
12. Whys and Work
13. No Gravity Sports
14. A Ladder into the Void

Part One - Earth

"Places we once called home may become strange, even alien, given the passage of sufficient time. But that is not a reason to despair! Precisely the opposite! New experiences, novelties - they often be found in the voids that familiarity vacates!"
W. P. Strut, speaking at the Ceres Fane Symposium, 2948

Earth has changed, and its people too. Asking them how won't be a problem - it seems that almost everyone has a story they'll happily tell to a willing ear or sensor - provided that you're willing to tell them your own in return.

15. Approach to Earth
16. Drop Anchor, Disembark
17. The Game is Afoot
18. Outmoded Malice
19. Interviews and Ideas
20. Climbing for Clues
21. Questioning Continues
22. Reflection and Revelation
23. The Murder of Commander Jackson
24. Takeaways and Teleforms
25. The Writer
26. An Orchard Town
27. Milestones and Raising CIs
28. The Basics of the Human Language
29. Vat-Raising
30. The Airborne Auditor
31. The Peeping Tom
32. Auditors Assemble an Airship
33. Surveys and Sniffer Dogs
34. The Consortium in Combat
35. Audit, Verify, Repeat
36. Fabrication and Fragments
37. Crux Corporate
38. An Office at Altitude
39. The Vice Grip of the Multispheres
40. The Consortium Program
41. Intervention Audit
42. The Next Step
43. The Journey Home
44. A Changed Land
45. Grumpy and Cheeful
46. The Barrier Falls
47. Vertical Living
48. 23rd Century Architecture
49. Apartments and Aging
50. A Glimpse of the Past
51. Past and Present
52. Wilderness Walk
53. Isolation Training
54. Thoughts and Thermite
55. News Reporting
56. The Earth Reclamation Project
57. Built to Last
58. Nuclear Legacy
59. Cultural Conservation
60. Roads and a Rally
61. An Arbiter Called Silence
62. Rheolists and Norannists
63. Representatives, Assemble
64. Positions and Interests
65. Personal Beliefs and Philosophies
66. A Letter of Promise
67. Housing Challenges
68. An Art Collection
69. Fine Art and Theft
70. What Happened Under the Ice
71. Truth and Triumph
72. Governance
73. Voting and Volition
74. Drone Festival
75. Enjoyment and Addiction
76. Reverse Skydiving
77. Drone Opera
78. Construction Begins... and Ends
79. House Warming
80. Animals and Pets
81. Animal Ascendancy
82. A Drunken Philosopher
83. Stargazing on the Roof
84. Gatecrash's Story
85. The Ceaseless Life of Servitude
86. The Unfeeling Attendant
87. Resiliency Pitch
88. Anode and Combat Proxies
89. PowerPoint Nostalgia
90. An Out of Body Experience
91. Walk Before You Wrestle
92. Implant Information
93. The Roles are Set
94. A Competitive Edge
95. The Tournament Begins!
96. Geared Up, Good to Go
97. A Moment of Recognition
98. Team Moss vs Team Nimble
99. Downtime Discussion
100. Team Moss in the Fog
101. Showdown
102. Turning the Tables
103. Aftermath
104. The Gauntlet
105. A Vicious Pursuer
106. A Memory of Scarcity
107. Fleeting Contact
108. The Two Squires
109. The Heart of the Maze
110. The Knight's Challenge
111. Like a Headless Proxy
112. Elimination Round
113. Team Moss vs team Catalyst
114. A Rock and a Hard Face
115. All or Nothing!
116. Full Tilt
117. Fries and Feedback
118. The Ground Shakes
119. Final Round
120. Seize the Advantage
121. The After-Party
122. Pairing
123. Progress
124. The First Forum
125. The Vote
126. A Fresh Perspective
127. The Small Hill

Part Two - The Inner Solar System

"Metastable metallic hydrogen - that wondrous substance - was only the tip of the iceberg in the early days of rocketry advancements. Imagine what Buzz Aldrin might have thought of our thrusters today - he might have called the Centauri Project magic!"
Yonrike Carr, A Brief History of Rocketry, 3011

As Nat travels to Mars, they learn that space is no longer the untamed wilderness of the 21st Century. Millions of people live their lives in the void of the Inner Solar System, the space between Sol and Ceres.

128. Charter
129. Preparing for Launch
130. Last Days on Earth
131. The Boiling Point
132. Transit Décor
133. The Factory
134. Keeping Busy
135. The Abnormals
136. Nervous Energy
137. Starstruck
138. Shoulders of Giants

Characters

The following are brief character bios, which may include art of the character in question. Please be warned that the below may contain spoilers for the novel.

• Sarkona Grant
• Antonia Maret