David J. Williams was the person who came up with the original story concept for Homeworld, the innovative and critically acclaimed first game from Relic Entertainment back in 1999. The space-based RTS game about a fleet of ships trying to get back to its origins had a majesty to its storyline and plot and few games before or since have had the kind of gravitas it contained.

While Williams has since left the games industry, he apparently has stuck with some of Homeworld's themes in his new role as science fiction novelist. His first world, The Mirrored Heavens, has just been released by Bantam Spectra and is set in the 22nd century where a terrorist group called Autumn Rain has attacked the world's attempt to build a "space elevator". The book is described as mix of a Tom Clancy techno-thriller with the cyberpunk themes of Bruce Sterling.

There's another Homeworld connection as Williams recruited Studio X Labs to create a trailer for the book. Studio X Labs helped to create some of the audio and music for the Homeworld games and as you can see below the trailer has a lot of similar looks to the Homeworld cut-scenes.

[Via Relic News]