THE SHORT OF IT:
Meet Charlese Tilbrenner, corn-fed romantic from the Kansas plains. She's a new-minted journalist with Galactic Geographic, the universe's premier news and feature magazine. From the slums and gated communities of Mars to the farthest reaches of known space, Charlese and her mentor Bernie Oldman will bring you the greatest stories of the galaxy. A humorous look at science fiction, fantasy, and romance, Galactic Geographic is the world’s first Military Sci-fi Romantic Comedy Satirical Travelogue. Explore the stars. Explore popular culture. Explore the painful, knotted relationships between men and women. That's the universe of Galactic Geographic, asking the question, "What's in YOUR world?"
THE LONG OF IT:
This is how it went down. Twenty minutes from right now, an alien spacecraft lands in Times Square, New York City. Considering that this is Times Square, it takes a while for people to notice. When they are thoroughly satisfied that the event is not a Hollywood gimmick or a performance art gig, the people dutifully panic. It's all the best parts of 1950s science fiction shows, right down to the hapless National Guardsmen sent to form a perimeter around the ship. They needn't have bothered, for when the little big-headed aliens come out, they announce that they come in peace, to serve man. No, really, to serve man, and not in the Twilight Zone way. The Grays, as they are called, have recently discovered that the beings they have been abducting, dissecting, implanting, and anal probing all these centuries have turned out to be intelligent. Who could've figured! So, being the moral folks that they are, the Grays apologize for any discomfort they might have caused and volunteer to make it right. They offer mankind advanced technology, interstellar space travel, and cures to all that ails him, especially nasty stuff like cancer. Almost overnight, humans become a spacefaring species. Nothing at all could go wrong there.
Thirty years after the Revelation of Procedures, as the Grays' self-imposed servitude to Man is called, Charlese Tilbrenner, ex-Galactic Marine, applies for a job as correspondent for Galactic Geographic, the universe's premier news and feature magazine. She gets the job, sure, but after being introduced to her mentor Bernie Oldman, she is all but shanghaied into leaving on assignment, no luggage, no preparation, no plan.
That's pretty much how it goes for Charlese as she stumbles from one outlandish story assignment to another, each increasingly more nerve-wracking and increasingly far from the green fields of Earth. Mars and its environs, including a restaurant for the unforgivably rich; the untouchable farmers who bring in most of the food for daily Martian consumption; and Martian shopping experiences. Jupiter's moon Europa, where scientists ready to explore the ocean beneath the frozen surface. Albireo Mall, a giant space station far out by a naked singularity; you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Then out to the farthest reaches of galactic civilization, to the ancient Pleiades star cluster and its bizarre, harsh environments. Along the way, Charlese learns as much about herself as she does about her world. Not all of it is pleasant. She's falling in love with Bernie, her mentor. She can't stand Bernie. her mentor. She can't stand herself. She isn't quite right. Never down a dozen airline bottles of hard liquor on a faster-than-light flight. Reptilian homicidal maniacs make the best of friends. Giant sea monsters do not. And, the most important lesson of all; sociopathic old women with helmet hair are not to be goaded or snubbed if you wish to avoid interstellar war.
Galactic Geographic: funny, irreverent, uncomfortable, thrilling, romantic, introspective, and all-around strange. The world's first military sci-fi romantic comedy satirical travelogue. That's our story, and we're sticking to it!
Science Fiction - Adult themes - Rough language - Action/fantasy violence - Explicit sexual content