Sanders is the superb model of the 1950's science fiction hero. He's a daring pilot, a cunning scientist, and a rock-hard lady's man with a soft spot for that special one. I'm reminded immediately of Rex Reason's character from "This Island Earth", but there are innumerable others. Of course, Gelber's intention is to lure his reader into that sense of security that comes with the familiar. Even the cover of "Future Hope" is a subtle callback to the scifi hayday; a missile shaped silver rocket headed into the void, where lurks a strange world of technicolor foliage. However, the world is suddenly upended upon discovery of that universe, which seems to have evolved with opposite respect to ours. Rather than building on science to a point of breaking, Eden has chosen to live a humble and happy Christian existence. They teach him the ways of the Creator, and reluctantly David's eyes begin to open.

"Future Hope" is undeniably Christian in nature, but it doesn't gear itself toward a Christian audience. Gelber does a wonderful job of drawing the reader in to his world to pose a natural question, which way is better? Nothing feels forced on the reader in the way that Christian Fiction makes the natural assumption that the reader is devout. Instead, Gelber paints an elaborate series of portraits and provides various links between them. As the ITP crew feverishly searches for their missing pilot, they are forced to confront their own views on faith.