Canopy of Hope

When our sun becomes unstable, mankind launches a starsip to go to a remote star system. We can flee the coming nova, but can we escape human nature? A tale of the spirit of human survival, this book is a love story embedded in a thriller, wrapped in science fiction.

When Choop Miles, a willful child living in Houston, is orphaned by a solar flare, he joins Myoki Wakahisa, his beautiful Japanese-Irish neighbor, on a colonization ship the human race builds to send 4000 people to a remote star system. When the leader of the ship decides he will be dictator of humanity, Choop abandons ship to live on the new planet and fight tyranny.

Wayne Peterson, a retired Systems Engineer, lives in Texas. He makes up stories to pass the time, and, as it turns out, he's pretty good at it. Two daughters and four grandchildren remind him life is sweet.