The New World

Strange spheres appear in the sky all around the world. No one can explain what they are or where they're from. When people begin suffering from a mysterious illness panic ensues, and soon only a tiny faction of the earth's population remains. With nowhere to call home and no answers to be found, Daniel Brickman takes up residence in the White House and begins trying to rebuild society, but the spheres were only the beginning."Daniel retreated upstairs to the President's private living room in the White House. The ornate furniture which seemed so untouchable when he had first arrived was now filled with memories. He couldn't believe how alone he felt and he wondered if every man who had lived in that mansion felt the same way. Once again the same questions came to his mind, the same questions that had been lurking deep in the recesses of his mind since the day the spheres had appeared over Washington D.C. Why did all the people who had succumbed to the plague seem to be merely sleeping? And why had he survived when others hadn't? He wondered if there really were other worlds out there, places where intelligent beings sent spheres of death hurtling through the dark, cold void of space to wipe out the human race? He wondered if those beings had counted on his survival."