The long series of interviews, medical exams, and personality tests. A lengthy application process and here Nightskyman First Lieutenant Olaf Sandström was on a colony world, an earthlike planet deemed safe, such a safe world that they had no grunts for backup, no supplemental team, only the four of them building what would be home, one day, to millions of colonists on six habitable continents .... Olaf felt very proud to be one of four men trusted with establishing the basis of this world’s first colony – trusted with facing any hazard, navigating any crisis, directing heavy equipment to plant, tend, and harvest the first crops, synthesize fuel and oil, and to build the first buildings, while they were also expected to study the world in each of their disciplines .... Olaf was the planet’s sole Atmospheric Specialist – and he had another role that was even more select – he would be the mother to all the first children of this world.
Read the rest in Things We Are Not, the first M-Brane SF science fiction anthology, in paper and on the Kindle.
