The world is dying. The sun has entered its final stages and began to grow into what will one day be a supernova before it burns out for ever. The Earth is a scroched desert and humanity exists in a few pockets of civilisation. All that is left of the past are stories and legends of the Ancient Days. The few survivors live in fear of the violent Nexu who, in times now forgotten, were sent to carry out the Judgement upon humanity and wipe our their numbers.
Living alone outside the small town of Hanar, Hax Racen tends his crops and dreams of the world he can never know, one glimpsed only briefly though a picture he finds as a small boy. Together with his automated servant Amla, an android left over from the end of the Ancient Days themselves, he is determined to find out why the Nexu failed to completly destroy man; why it is said they were sent from the God himself; why nothing remains of the wonderful world that went before his, and why it seems that Amla himself knows more than he is telling...

I wrote this book in a totally different way to anything else I've ever written. I started with my main characters, my setting, a few ideas, and I went for it. I had no idea where it was going or how it would end. In short, I didn't know the answers to the questions Hax finds himself asking in the wake of finding a little piece of the past in the deserts of northern N'Golia.
Normally I have a pretty well laid-out synopsis in front of me before I write anything, and have never been able to write any other way. But this felt different. I didn't want to lock myself into from the off. I read an interview with Stephen King where he said that to know, he has to write, and I wanted to try that. He also said he didn't plan who lived or died, but went with his gut; if a charcater became useless or just weak, they went. I tried to that in here too, but with so few characters to choose from it wasn't all that easy!
Still, I'm very fond of how it turned out. I believe in the Earth Hax calls home, and I think the miinterpretation of religion mentioned in the story is pretty cool, and something not so very far from the real world, if you ask me...

Coming soon