For decades we’ve travelled between stars, searching, yearning for contact.

Our findings? Just dead planets, ruined civilisations.

Yet all predictions concur; at least one civilisation should survive, to colonise the galaxy. So where are they?

I look back, at the settlements and outposts we’ve established along the way.

It’s us.

William Mitchell lives in East Sussex in the South of England. He is an award-winning author, having had early success with various Horror and Science Fiction publications before winning the Writers of the Future contest in 2012. His latest book, The Still and Silent Stars, offers an in-depth investigation into the likelihood of alien life and alien intelligence existing elsewhere in our galaxy.