Press Release: For decades scientists have dreamed of sending deep-frozen humans on interstellar missions. But until this dream comes true, they must settle for a much simpler technique available: the freezing of human embryos. However, long distance space travel of this nature poses other challenges, none more so than the management of artificial pregnancies and how to raise the children produced. One viable solution comes in the form of advanced biotechnology and highly sophisticated androids, and a large scale project has been implemented to explore these options. To prove that it can really work, the project's scientists go a step further. Somewhere in the Nevada desert and well hidden underground, they conduct an eighteen-year-long experiment using a young starship crew unaware of their true environment. Surrounded by complex simulations, the crew believes they are approaching a distant star system, one that appears to host a planet suitable for human colonization.

Matt Browne is a computer scientist and a part-time science fiction writer. The novel 'The Future Happens Twice' explores the question: 'Can we send frozen human embryos to the stars?'

Here’s the blurb of "THE FUTURE HAPPENS TWICE": Debrya Handsen, a 33-year-old professor in computational linguistics at the University of Minnesota, is ready for a career change. She decides to leave her academic post and move to Nevada, where she joins a top-secret project that is being sponsored by the American government. Using powerful telescopes installed on the far side of the Moon, the project's astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet that is eighty-two light years away; simultaneously a major breakthrough in bioengineering presents the project with the unique opportunity of long-distance space travel. At first Debrya has no idea why the study of language is to play such a central role, and why twin studies are also so important. During her orientation week she discovers a disturbing secret that makes her wish she had never joined the project.

Matt Browne, M.S. is a senior team leader in Frankfurt, Germany. His areas of expertise include enterprise content management, web technologies, knowledge management, intranet search engines and collaboration software. He earned his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics from the University of Kansas. He started his information technology career at Siemens in Munich as a software engineer and project manager developing natural language processing tools. Matt is also a part-time writer and has recently published his first science fiction novel called The Future Happens Twice which is based on the concept of embryo space colonization. Key elements in the first book of his planned trilogy are the detection of Earth-like extrasolar planets, the advancement of embryo-splitting technology, artificial wombs and the cryopreservation of human embryos for an interstellar space mission as human survival is threatened by an impending extinction-level event.

View Matt Browne's professional profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest business network, helping professionals discover inside connections. Matt Browne is a science fiction writer and has published 'The Future Happens Twice' exploring new ways to colonize space. The earth is in danger and the human species may not survive the danger. So, a project is conceived to send humans to another earth like planet 82 light years away. The only problem with that is that humans cannot survive such long journey which will take thousands of years. Other problems of engineering, reliability etc. could be overcome but how to ensure the safety of the human beings over thosuands of years of space travel? A controversial solution is being attempted, cryo-preservation of human embroyos, which will be thawed and hatched by Artificial Womb Devices and the babies will be brought up by humanoid robots which have Natural Language Processing capabilities.

The Perennial Project is a character-driven 700+ page novel that follows the exploits of scientists and their subjects in a super-secret government project that will send cryopreserved embryos into space to colonize an earth-like planet in order to perpetuate the human race after earth suffers a devastating catastrophe eliminating all biological life on the planet. Browne does not fall into the traps many first time authors do. There is no info dump to give the reader back-story. Instead, the scenes show, rather than tell, the plot. Browne's scientific background and extensive research on the subjects in the book does not prohibit the layperson from understanding the complex subject matter. Browne explains complicated ideas without talking down to or pandering to the reader. This isn't a beach novel, but the reader does not need a master's in science to follow the ideas. Browne does an excellent job of creating interesting, round characters.

By 2061 science and technology will meet all the essential requirements for interstellar space travel based on the embryo space colonization concept; the core element of this prediction is the cryopreservation of human embryos. The requirements include the ability to build an artificial womb, i.e. a machine that nurtures and grows a human embryo outside of a woman's body create androids based on advanced robotics that are capable of raising children and running on linguistic software that passes the Turing test construct a spaceship for slow interstellar travel using durable materials such as carbon nanotubes which will last for several 10,000 years select an exoplanet for human colonization based on data retrieved by telescope systems such as ESA's Darwin mission. My predictions are related to Kurzweil's 'Law of Accelerating Returns' and humanity's development towards intelligence explosion or a technological singularity.

What is humankind's place in the universe? Why is space exploration important for our future? Dreams have always shaped our future. We built ships to reach new continents and trains to cross countries and continents. The automobile revolutionized individual transport. Airplanes allowed us to travel long distances in a matter of hours. Rockets showed us all that even the sky must not be the limit. We put men on the Moon. Our space probes have already explored large portions of our solar systems. And we have plans to send people to Mars. Our telescopes cannot only observe galaxies and distant stars, they are about to take a closer look at planets orbiting those stars. More than 200 exoplanets have already been found. Soon this number will grow into the thousands...

This is what the novel 'The Future Happens Twice' is about: A super-secret government agency has been given the responsibility of saving mankind by sending a starship to a planet 42,000 years away with 5,000 frozen embryos, 2 androids, and a crew of four children who are artificially born 18 years before the landing, raised and trained by the androids. This seems straight forward enough; however, its complexity is greatly increased by the moral questions of cloning and lying to test subjects.