Short Story Desertion

Desertion

In the story of Desertion, much change had taken place, and the earth along with the planets neighboring earth had become uninhabitable. With much research, scientist were able to figure out a way to create and sustain life on other planets, but they all would become incapable of supporting humans as well. The only planet that had the ability to be a successful living place for the people in this story, who were now living in space pods, was Jupiter. Jupiter was far from the ideal planet to live on however and the challenges that had to be beaten to make Jupiter hospitable were almost impossible. This story follows the journey of a man named Fowler who had the difficult task of figuring out how to make Jupiter a suitable place for humans to live. This task that Fowler had to complete turned out to be than just figuring out if Jupiter would be sustainable place to live, as the journey lead Fowler to figure out who we was and truly find his Inner peace in such a hard time.

Instant death would be the result of a human entering the planet, as the harsh conditions that surrounded the Jupiter year round would be too much for humans to handle. Scientist however had come up with a way that they believed would allow for humans to live on Jupiter and Fowler was in charge of testing this idea. Being in charge of such an important and integral part of the world put a lot of pressure on Fowler which had a large impact on him and the people that he worked with. Having these emotions tas a major part of Fowlers life, but because of the importance that his job held, he often had to subdue these emotions and keep them to