Take a deep breath. Now exhale. Now find out why, in Renan Bernardo’s book Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, doing that is not as simple as it sounds — and what that means for the people in the story.
RENAN BERNARDO:
What if a profit-driven expedition to settle on an distant planet failed so miserably that now the crew has lost all motivation to come back to Earth? That is the Big Idea behind my novella Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle. But there’s a bigger, more general idea behind it—I’ll call it an ethos. We’ll come to that talking about the Big Idea.
In times where the quest for profit and power became the reason of existence for many of Earth’s civilizations, one does have to wonder (okay, it doesn’t, but I wanted to anyway) what would happen with the crew of a spaceship that was sent to inhabit and research a distant planet after ten years traveling to reach it on the basis of finding profitable opportunities. Science can go unexpected ways, we all know it. Science is not always made to be aligned with profiteering values. It might take years and resources, and even then not lead anywhere in the end. But it needs to be done. It’s how society advances. But the expedition sent to the planet Kapteyn d (not an actual planet so far, but b and c do exist) was funded for the glory and the wealth it could bring. Just like a standard colonization project…
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