A Future Chron Collection.

With the help of new technology humanity has attained the stars. And while that technology may be extending humanity's reach, it cannot change the human condition. That condition is always balanced perilously between progress and setback as these five stories show.

The first novelette, "First One Hundred," is the story of the first mission to settle a planet similar to Earth. But soon a crew member is dead, the Captain is missing, and a rampaging AI threatens destruction.
The second story, "First Dark Ages," finds the Earth for the first time in over two-hundred years without the management of its nanny overseers, the Aggies (Artificial General Intelligence). And the Earth's governments without that crutch are failing miserably.
As the Earth recovers form the First Dark Ages the next novelette "Second One Hundred" tells of a follow up mission to the First One Hundred mission. But this mission is in trouble almost from the start when one crew member wakes up to find she is the only conscious human on the ship. Or is she?
The fourth story, "Second Dark Ages," is more about the dark ages of the soul rather than the body. As Ray is on a trek of discovery around his space habitat he encounters the extremes of human thought and philosophy.
The last novelette, "The Path Of The Long March," shows the Trilons to be a peaceful, respectful race. But something is killing them and the Rigan bureaucracy, who want to use the Trilons to help build their infrastructure on the Trilon's world, need an answer. The blossoming friendship between a Rigan and a Trilon may help find the answer, as a 500 year old secret is revealed.
Hard science fiction - old school.
See the author's blog, futurechronology on blogger, for more about the Future Chron Universe.