Young Amishman Jedidiah Troyer signed up for an emigration program designed to colonize the planet of New Pennsylvania with plain farmers who won’t make any trouble. But Jed and his new friend Dawn arrive on New Pennsylvania in the middle of a rebel uprising, and TRACE, a resistance group intent on rising up against the government, has taken on the mission of getting Jed safely from the City to the Amish Zone. Being a stranger in the old world doesn’t even compare to being a stranger in a brand new world… a world steeped in secrets and deep in the midst of a war stretching across time and space. “Pennsylvania is a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization. With parallels to the European settlement of the America’s, Michael Bunker draws on his Amish roots and lifestyle to portray that tenuous balance between mankind and its machines. He also knows better than most the difficulty of surviving on civilization’s frontier. I daresay the wait for the next great Amish science fiction author may be finally at an end.”

Pennsylvania is a short story, 16,500 words (about forty five pages,) and it is the first in the Pennsylvania series. Jedidiah Troyer is now a traveler. He has signed up for an emigration program that is colonizing the planet of New Pennsylvania. He just wants to start a farm and homestead on affordable land in a new Amish community. Space pioneering isn’t as easy as it sounds when you’re plain. … As he leaned over to pull his meal tray from the slot in the machine, he noticed the computer screen above the slot. Your charge: 2,000 Unilets Your balance: 598,000 Unilets 598,000 Unilets! Wait a minute. That’s way too much. Something is wrong…