Self Sufficiency: Resilience, Country Living, Growing Food; Plausible Near Future Disruption: Power Outages, Food Shortage, High Prices

This is a story of the changes coming in an uncertain future and what people do to live as best they can. Those that best prepare will be those that best live through the coming challenges.

The main characters adopt a positive, can-do attitude. Prepping for the future is interesting and enjoyable. Preparations will make their lives a whole lot more pleasant if and when things get bad.

Claude and the group of eight set up a remote homestead and become self sufficient enough to live well. The rest of the world suffers through food shortages and an epidemic. Claude and his companions have prepared well, accomplished much, and thrive.

As the people of earth are adapting to environmental changes, a message comes from a far off solar system. The message is of monumental importance - we can improve the human condition.

Scientists say that in the extreme distant future our sun will no longer sustain us. For humanity to survive we must leave this earth. In the twenty-first century, as our technology progresses and our understanding of genetics improves we see the opportunity for humanity to establish itself beyond the bounds seemly imposed by the laws of physics. There is another way for humanity to go to the stars.