Starwreck

The Gaian Restoration’s (GR) eco-ark Dharma came out of null drive at a potential stellar colonization site, Omicron, and encountered a storm of unknown origin that ravaged the ship, killing 292 of 300 crew, but sparing 10,000 colonists in cryogenic sleep. To save them, the two male and six females crew remaining have to spend three years going into a slingshot orbit around their new home and, once there--because the Dharma’s planetary landers were destroyed and interstellar travel is slow in real terms--breed a new generation to carry the torch until aid arrives. This requires the crew coming off sexual abstainer drugs mandatory for all spacers and having sexual relations for purposes of reproduction, a concept alien to all GR spacers and to many in the GR itself. Despite ranging in age from 25 to 38 solar at the time of the starwreck, the crew are sexual neophytes and literally virgins. Without experience, and with only partially functioning ship functions, they must organize a small society for survival so it avoids the Pitcairn Island trap of murder, mayhem, sexual jealousy and sexual exclusivity yet produces children of wide genetic diversity Various crises affect the slingshot voyage, forcing a hull walk at one point and a volunteer who will face sudden death in another. The book details the crew’s journey from sexual abstinence to a polyamorous future where the reins pass to a new generation. In doing so, they are influenced both by what they learn on ship (and in Kalvr’s case, pre-abstinence memory using an illegal Sex Tape) from the AI and each other, but also their philosophical beliefs, which cover the gamut of Green GR ideology--Life Ascendancy, Zeroism, Green Goddess, Naturist, and skepticism, for example, all explained in a paragraph or two each and summarized in the Glossary. The three-page Glossary also records spacer slang and the lines of descent of the first generation. An Epilogue from a rescuer outlines what happened in the intervening decades after creation of Kalvr’s polyamorous society. This will not be a series. The book records in sexually graphic terms (MF, FF, ménage, group, anal, fellatio) how they solved their problems in such a way as to guarantee the Dharma a chance of survival until rescue. Although the key players are Captain Kalvr and Medtech Kyna, all eight survivors have chapters exploring their own physical and psychological changes as they become sexually aware and sexually practiced. The book contains a total of 29 chapters plus a foreword, epilogue and glossary, approximately 77,000 words in 160 pages. It contains explicit sex and language.