Some discoveries you hope to never make, in this story by the author of the Moreau Society series.
It's hard to spot interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system. They come from any direction, at terrifying speeds, and most go unseen. Until the Vera Rubin Observatory's sky survey began cataloging the sky and discovered dozens-rapidly changing our understanding of how frequently ISOs pass through the solar system.
Space is vast. Bigger than people imagine. The chance of an ISO impacting Earth is maybe once in 65 million years...
Ryan M. Williams' Forty-Two is part of the Super Great Challenge (SGC), one story written each week for a year from this imaginative author. Each story an unique experience that can be read in a single entertaining sitting.
