Download or read book Welcome To The Future written by Edward M. Grant and published by Banchixi Media. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No-one expects to find alien life in NGC 2419. But when the first probes encounter a dirty, industrial planet somewhere no human has gone, the race is on to be the first to welcome its inhabitants into the galactic community. Will it be two poker-playing starships, or The Future, for whom pretension is a vocation, not just a way of life? A 5,500 word science fiction short story.