Blurb:

‘Humans are a per­sis­tent race, sur­viv­ing until the end of the uni­verse no less. Changes have occurred how­ever, and they are no longer the global power they used to be, nor the ser­vants of some supe­rior grey aliens. They have got­ten there, but who knows how. The lin­eage of the race is sketchy, the tech­nol­ogy they use bro­ken, and the HUB — a vast base cre­ated from the husks of ancient ships — falling apart at the seams. There only hope in a sea of noth­ing is to find a Red Dwarf: one still eter­nally burn­ing out. Plot­ters search for them, spend­ing years of their lives look­ing for a dim light in a dark uni­verse. Hope, is fleeting.

Quint is one such Plot­ter, but the answers he returns with are far from enlight­en­ing. He’s found noth­ing, and the space-faring com­mu­nity is not happy. Peo­ple are los­ing faith, look­ing for options else­where, and will­ing to do any­thing to sur­vive that much longer.

And The Stars Ran Red is an ensem­ble char­ac­ter story fol­low­ing a com­mu­nity of peo­ple, and what they do in the face of their own extinc­tion. At its heart though, it’s about fam­ily, faith, and truth.

I began And the Stars Ran Red in Feb­ru­ary of 2009, fin­ish­ing it in Jan­u­ary 2010. I have edited the draft twice, and now it’s in the beta read­ing phase.