When I wrote Galactic Voyager, I wanted it to be in our very near future; I wanted all the science to be essentially familiar from high school physics. It was set (to depart Moon orbit) in the 21st Century (I was writing around 1999), which means around this year!
Now, of course, nobody has the will—or the budget, let's be serious—to consider such a thing as to outfit an enormous space vessel 6 miles long, and send it off in an open-ended voyage. I was young and naïve, and I thought it wouldn't be too impossible. If I were to write it now, I would postpone the departure of the Voyager by about a hundred years.
I haven't been able to get a nice cover image for the book. I wanted the view from the rear window of the piloting nacelle (a sort of cabin out on an arm, that stays put, while the ship rotates). I think I could afford to pay for a nice piece of art. I might need two artists: one to draw the Voyager, and the other to draw a few people inside the nacelle, looking out through the window.
K.
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