Lunar Eclipse

On another world, one not too dissimilar from our own, a Renaissance-era astronomer witnesses a large object approach the moon and then disappear behind it. Sixty years later, the leader of a merchants' guild laments the infrastructure improvements that he recently commissioned for his city's port will soon be made obsolete by rising tides. And into the future we hurtle, two generations at a time, watching as a society struggles with their increasingly turbulent world.

This is a short story. It is approximately 4,400 words long.