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Greetings, young people of planet Earth, This grand, life-changing, soul-building adventure continues as the new crew of the deep-space response ship Manessa Kwi heads for interplanetary space. Will Satamia Star Station await them, just around the corner? Of course not. Those readers looking for quick and easy left the Nebador stories behind, probably several books ago. Those of you about to sink your minds into this book are made of sterner stuff.
Space separates the children from the grown-ups. Your age doesn’t matter. If you are nine, and you are aiming your life toward standing on your own two feet and dealing with hard, cold reality, you are leaving childhood behind. One of the critiquers who helped make these stories possible started at age eight.
Interplanetary space is like the twenty feet of air that separates the bird nest, where the little birdies must first spread their wings, from the ground, where cats await their next meal. In interplanetary space, we will grow up or die.
But beware the temptation to gaze at the stars and planets too much. The first step into space starts on the ground, on the good fertile soil of planet Earth. We visited our moon in 1969 and the early 1970s, but have not been back, and have not done much else in space, because our “house” is not yet in order. We knew, in the 1970s, that energy and other resources would soon run short, and we decided, as a whole people and a whole planet, to ignore the warnings and do nothing.
The crew of the Manessa Kwi will see and understand many things as they journey outward from their original home to the stars. If you, young readers, have your eyes open, you will learn much from their journey, perhaps more than many people learn in a lifetime.
J. Z. Colby
2011
