Eden Again (Old Stories Told Anew)

In the movies a hyperspace jump to a galaxy far away is an everyday affair. In colder reality it takes an expedition from the solar system two millennia to traverse the ten light years to the star Epsilon Eridani. A few centuries into the journey the fleet loses contact with Earth and drifts along in space as the loneliest human community of all time. Rather than fall into despair, however, the colonists thrive and evolve into a unique human civilisation and rediscover what it is to live in Paradise. Things change as they finally approach their destination and prepare to re-establish contact with the rest of humanity. At their new stellar home they meet with a great surprise and then face a question of blind trust. Can the innocence and happiness in which they have come to live over their long journey survive the devious threat that now overhangs them? Jake van der Kamp is a Hong Kong-based financial journalist and novelist whose fiction on the theme of 'old stories told anew' explores organised religion, social dilemmas stemming from the rapid pace of technological change and the likely ordering of society in the Space Age of the future.