Leaving Earth

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Description

After Dr. Hawthorne Crenshaw's university experiences a terrorist attack, he undertakes a titanic effort to colonize a new planet in an effort to rescue some small part of humanity from what he suspects is an unstoppable spiral into a Dark Age on Earth. Subjecting himself to tens of thousands of years of repeated cycles of cryogenic freezing and unfreezing to monitor his passengers, he and his AI T.I.A. shepherd Earth's first, and perhaps only effort into colonizing a new planet.

Cover byAna Ristovska

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2018
Author: Warfox

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 1,263
Views: 725,893

Chapters(57 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

Aki1redRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Tbh I don't normally read this type of fiction or leave reviews so bare with me. The story is about a paranoid scientist who convince other scientist that they need to leave the planet it's doomed...turns out he wasn't paranoid and they leave successfully.with some of mankind's brightest and smartest they leave on and adventure in cryo sleep. Idk what else to say without spoilers. I'll just say it's kinda slow if you're into action but it's a very good read... The only complaint I have is about reactions to some things that happened but I mean I have 4stars...(I rarely like reactions in most novels. Other then that character building was great and the few charctcharin the etoryhave a fleshed out character which is nice)
MyriadRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've never been huge into sci-fi, here and there a book do catch my attention... this is one of them.
As of chapter 21, I don't have a lot of bads thing to say about it. The world building and storytelling are great. The interaction between the characters is one of the main driving force of the story.
The author seems to take his time to flesh out the world and his characters. It's nice to not be rushed and feel like the world and its people are actually alive.
The main grip I can have with this would be the beginning of the story and how it is setup. There seems to be many exaggeration and surrealist events. But the author explains them well enough and they are used as foundation to build characters and the world, so it dampens the effect.
Some people seem to really have a mental block at that part, i'm not too sure why. The author seems to show how fragile all of us and all we built really are. Even how insignificant we are in the face of time and our own nature. Some stretch to the story will be needed to get somes of the points across.
I especially liked how self-fulfilling prophecy seems to be what drives the first few chapters and we get to ask ourselves a lot of questions and think about the how and if.
To conclude, I think the story early on could of been fleshed out better to make it more "real". But let's be honest, to create what the author is, you need to use your imagination and postulate on so many things... I must praise him for how well he's done so far. I have high expectation for this story and I rate it accordingly.
RobotSamuraiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Its been a really good story so far. It's one of the best Sci-fi stories on this site.
SalzarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Spoiler: Spoiler
UrobrouSRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
RRL is like a thrift shop.
It has it's fair share of articles that are garish, ugly, and potentialy cancerous or infection vectors for AIDS; a realm filled with the deepest, most primal and weebish of trash from the depths of the edgy shared human conciousness.
And yet, amidst this sea of utter and distilled shit clashing with primal forces, the likes of which resmbling those that forged our sun, float precariously beautiful and intricate flowers of inspiration and awe.
These works, too far and few between, are the only thing that keeps this site in my bookmarks, in spite of the anime and dungeon fictions that are rife.
This book is with out a doubt, a SHINING beacon to be held as an example as to how a true piece of sci-fi should be made.
There are PUBLISHED, MULTI-SERIALIZED AUTHORS that cannon COME CLOSE to the quality and love put in to this tale.
I am honored to have had the chance to partake in this.
Xplizit_FluffyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Please continue writing! I love the idea of the story when it comes to Dr. Hawthorn and T.I.A the A.I becoming companions on the trip to a new world.
halffull90Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Its a very well constructed story with somewhat plausible future. Far from a scientific analisys, it deliver a very cativating story trough the point of view of a genius cientist and his A.I about the pos-nuclear war that raveged the Earth, as well as their developing emotions (not romantic, just ai develotiong human caracteristics, like pseudo dreams).
Definitly worth reading.
mioRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
let me say that this story is incredible, thought-provoking in a scarily realistic way. it is truly fantastic work.
jake-the-snakeRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
A story more about decisions, morality and societal development than it is about action and adventure.
I appreciated the growth and development of the characters and liked the way time was handled. It made for an interesting story but also drew attention to the shear amount of time passing.
toddRoyal Road
★ 1.0
This is a hard story to review. From looking at other reviews, it's apparent that there are plenty of people that enjoyed it, and if you did, more power to you. That said, I'm six chapters in and there has been virtually nothing marking this as a sci-fi novel outside of the window dressing. The protagonist and his AI companion watch the Earth degrade as they fly away, and that's... it. The rest is politics. And not the interaction between ideologies, or even grey areas between them, but definitive declarations that everything except Christianity is liable for the collapse of humanity.
The writing itself is well-done and there are few if any errors in the writing, but I had a remarkably difficult time suspending my disbelief at the events written. Part of this is due to the fact that extreme outcomes are listed without any sort of progression from here to there. From the start, the media is written as though they cover the Hunger Games "reveling in the bloodshed" and social media executions of the protagonist's family are apparently a road to social media stardom. Not to mention the absurd amount of aggression the Ark group received just for building a spaceship to leave the planet? Governments unwilling to punish individuals that filmed themselves committing murder for fear of unrest. What unrest? Nothing written indicates anything other than a state of anarchy. In the real world, people making videos of animals being hurt are tracked down and reported to the police, how did society go from this to becoming a star for murdering people on stream?
That's the issue that I have with this story as written. The author portrays a world where everyone has simultaneously become a mob of terrible hateful people for no reason, where the USA collapsed because their military was overseas and corporations straight-up murdered the local government to take over, and most of all, a world where literally no one is attempting to improve or fix things outside of the estate left behind