Hermes

A journey through the centuries on the way to a threatened planet, Emily Chance’s astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world.

By 2150, Earth is a toxic wasteland. The last exhausted, lonely, human has died. Far above the Earth, on an abandoned space station, an artificial intelligence originally designed to take humanity to the stars, sends a desperate plea for help to a world which they had been unable to reach.

Forty light years away, ‘they’ respond and travel back to humanity’s beginnings to try to help lead them away from their dark ending. Over thousands of years, determined to offer the gifts that could save humanity, they become more and more involved at what they know to be key points in Earth’s evolving history, until they recognise a terrible truth: their own survival is at stake.

Hermes is an engaging work of speculative fiction that explores the essence of what it is to be human. The novel examines the future of humanity by reflecting on its past.

EMILY CHANCE  has been writing her highly regarded blog about her great passion, music, a theme which underscores Hermes, for almost two decades. The publication of this, her epic first novel, signals the beginning of her journey as an author, with a follow-up story, Angelia, already written. Emily is a very keen hiker. So, when she is not writing at her home in the Middle East, she can be found at various points in the year in the Alps of Switzerland, the mountains of New Zealand and the South Island of Japan, reminding herself of how precious and unique our homeworld is.