Friday, September 11, 2009

Home World update....


Good news everybody, I've updated and finalized the cover art for Home World. The novel is about 75% completed in draft and I'm very excited about the project.
Look for updates on Home World on this blog or on my website www.williamdesouza.ca. I'll post updated excerpts from time to time once I've gone through the first re-write.

Home World - life will never be the same again
The story follows humanity's struggle for survival from an unknown enemy feared by every sentient life in the galaxy.
Humans are just the latest to face the most terrifying species one can imagine. A species that strips worlds of all life in order to plunder its resources before moving on; leaving an empty and lifeless shell hanging in the quiet black of space.
We were driven from our Home World by what was thought to be a natural but untimely expansion and death of our sun. Forced to seek out a new home before our life giving sun went nova, we made our exodus with a fraction of the population in a desperate effort to survive. Earth was left behind with the unlucky billions, waiting to be engulfed by the sun as it expanded into a red giant.
Since then, we've grown and seeded humanity on a number of far off planets; finding and making friends with other space faring life forms. Life was good for four hundred years; then a signal was received...a signal that should not have been possible - a signal from Earth. This is the signal that drops us into a fight for our lives.
Humanity soon finds that we have more than one powerful enemy, we also have to fight ourselves as old ideas and fears surface just when unity is needed.