Failure on Titan

There is, in the far imagination of humanity, a peculiar melancholy attached to the outer worlds—a sense that distance itself becomes a moral condition. In "Failure on Titan," this melancholy finds one of its most refined and unsettling expressions. Abernathy does not merely transport the reader across the abyss to Saturn's great moon; he carries us into the interior immensities of human expectation, where ambition and limitation meet in quiet, irreversible recognition.

Titan, in his renderi...