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A MIND FOR MISCHIEF
a speculative fiction In a near copy alternative version of our world called Sol III, there was a war, a battle for the most important resource: human consciousness. Human minds were being aggressively eroded by capitalism, political lies and social media. Eventually the war was won by the The One Mind Alliance, who remade their world into a new utopian society. Crucially it was a place where lies in public service were punishable by death and politics, the press and social media are similarly kept in line. The hooded agents of the state keep watch on those who would plot to own us. AI technology is very advanced and humans and AIs work together to build and grow society for all. But one sunny day Dirk P. Kinder, a popular writer, gets a surprise visit from a woman from Earth. Was this event caused by secret experiments opening gateways into other worlds or did it happen spontaneously? Why can't she remember who she is? The cast of characters include Nikola Tesla, who in this world lived to be 129 and fostered most of the world's leading technology. You'll meet outwardly jovial cult leader T. Mark Shamley who has a not entirely unselfish agenda of his own. You'll also meet Carnival Nine, an AI who has become self aware and tries to save humanity from itself, even prepared to martyr itself for that end. Because on Sol III there's a storm brewing as the old order are not dead, merely sleeping, and bold experiments are afoot which threaten to unravel the very fabric of time and space. OUT NOW on Kindle and paperback May 2022 |
 COMING IN 2023: COLD MIKE
Mike is a contract killer, but the job is beginning to pall. He needs to get out of this business for his health and soon. The current job has gone really wrong, the cops are on the way and his means of cleaning up the crime just went up in flames. This is why he hates funny business. Why can't people just do as they are told? In a surreal alternate world of '90s New York, Mike discovers his best friends are not who they seem to be and his estranged girlfriend is missing having gotten herself caught up in some kind of weird global conspiracy. Add to this the eldritch figure in the top hat who seems intent on killing him. Some days you just can't seem to catch a break. And it would all be so much easier to take without that creepy kid staring down at you from every billboard accompanied by the words "Watching Over You". COLD MIKE will be available on AMAZON in paperback and Kindle In Development: BLOOD OF THE OLD GODS Part 2 of the SOL III Trilogy
In the 1930s Dr
Theodore Monro invents the first AI, which he calls
Thing One. The new life form is childlike and
curious, but soon the conversations take an
unexpected turn . . . In the future at a remote forward station
in deep space, the first alien contact is made. The
Arden have a secret, and they'll kill us all to
protect it. COMING SOON in paperback and on
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In the past the old gods are
fighting with each other to preserve their culture.
Enmities are formed and plans to triumph are set.
The gods are going to die but who is responsible? Any questions or comments please go to my Twitter Feed
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