Böcker av Richard Cutler

The year is 2085, and a fleet of interstellar ships hurtles toward a solar system that is hoped will offer a new home for humanity. Setting up a wormhole gate on one of Epsilon Eridani's planets would provide an escape for the billions left on an overpopulated and resource-poor Earth.The fleet receives what is assumed to be its last communication from the United Nations Stellar Commission. The brief message reads, "You're on your own," which the fleet takes to mean that they just passed out of Earth's communication range.But they are wrong. Back home, a disaster unparalleled in Earth's history now threatens humanity's very survival. The population is in free fall, governments have collapsed, and an overwhelming sense of apathy grips the planet. Unless the situation improves-and soon-the wormhole gate will open to an Earth without humans.Humanity's hopes are now fully in the hands of the ninety thousand star-flung individuals heading through deep space on fragile ships-while back on Earth, a powerful force awakens.Humanity has leaped into the stars, but will this be our future-or a last desperate act before extinction?

In the distant future, humanity has mastered space travel, conquered immense interstellar distances with wormholes gates, and discovered new worlds, all while secretly guided by an ancient Order. But after early successes, ongoing problems on Earth have kept the Star Ship Fleet in a holding pattern awaiting further instructions.Then, in 2147, the United Nations Stellar Commission decides to launch a series of new and exciting missions with the primary goal of setting up a colony and wormhole gate on one of the planets orbiting Alpha Centauri. Led by a mixture of experienced and not-so-experienced space Admirals, the Star Ship Fleet embarks on the mission with high expectations that a true colony for mankind can finally be established.But the new mission exposes an old and shocking secret-a botched attempt by the Order and the world's leaders at colonizing another planet years before that left behind humans with no knowledge of Earth. When it becomes clear that the Order has failed to fix the mistakes of the past, it's up to the best and brightest of humanity to make the right decisions and steer all the species of the galaxy towards a new and better horizon.

After a successful space mission on a fleet of Star Ships, Earth''s best and brightest minds return to find their planet ravaged by a viral catastrophe. Without leadership or direction, the loosely reorganized United Nations Stellar Commission (UNSC) sits in a state of stagnation. The newly appointed commissioners of the UNSC must decide whether or not to risk the four functional Star Ships that remain in the hope of discovering another inhabitable planet. What they don''t realize is that there are other forces at work, gathering power on Earth and, possibly, in the skies. When the travelers encounter a powerful being who cannot recall his past, they discover that helping each other might open just the right doors for everyone. Working as a team, they make a discovery that could change the future of mankind-if they can make it out alive.