PlanetFall

—PlanetFall— A Paradisi Chronicles Short StoryGenre: Near-Future Sci-Fi, Apocalyptic Earth, Colonization, First Contact  The planet New Eden awaits... but Evie may never reach it. When Tavian begs Evie to smuggle his dog, Frankie, down to the planet New Eden, she has no idea how dangerous such a simple request will be. From a firefight to imprisonment to a chance encounter with an alien species, Evie discovers that little Frankie's courage will be the key to everyone's survival. —The Paradisi Chronicles Universe—In the last decades of the twenty-first century, ten families seeking to escape an increasingly devastated Earth focus their power and wealth on constructing spaceships that will allow a select few to leave Earth and colonize the world they call New Eden. Here, on their new home in the Paradisi System, these Founding Families hope to avoid the environmental and political disasters that were destroying Earth. But they find that the world they claim for their own is already inhabited, and the Ddaerans, although human in their appearance, possess abilities that the Founders and their descendants find both intriguing and frightening… —About—The Paradisi Chronicles is an open-source multi-author sci-fi universe set in a fictional planetary system in the Andromeda galaxy. Built by seven founding members of the group, Paradisi Chronicles has grown by leaps and bounds as more and more authors continue to explore 200 years of history spanning the flight from an apocalyptic Earth to the settling and expansion of the Paradisi System.