New Horizons 05:
While Making Other Plans
“The universe is a pretty big place.
If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
– Carl Sagan
Contact is the fifth book in the series and sits only about two thirds complete. I am in the middle of editing what I have in anticiption of completing it, and I am very excited to be doing so. I originally stopped working on it years ago when I became disillusioned about not beign able to get published, and I never had a good sense of where I wanted to go with it, despite really liking what I had with it so far. I now know where I want to take this story and I'm excited to get there!
Contact takes place fifteen or so years after the events of Reunion, when the first drone ship sent to a non conlony system makes first contact with them back home, allowing an expedition through the rift to a new system for the first time. Kathryn is tasked with captaining the newly constructed New Horizons II through the rift to explore the new system. They have their first encounter with non human intelligent life, and find themseves thrown in the middle of a galactic civil war, needing to pick a side on too little information before they are destroyed.
I am currently editing what I have already written and am excited to finish this story! I have currently edited through Chapter 16 and you're welcome to follow along and see where this goes with me!