Broken Glass (Glass Complex Book 1) (40 page)

A deranged and very bitter rival for control of Homeworld attacks Steg with a blaster. Her attack severely injures him as he is about to step through a portal. He disappears and despite a major search by his fellow soldiers, he cannot be found.

The pace of Broken Glass is rapid with well developed and solid characters and a compelling storyline.

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Fracture Lines

Book 2 - Glass Complex Trilogy

Fracture Lines is the long awaited sequel to Broken Glass and has a target of January, 2015 for its release.

Steg de Coeur, severely wounded by a savage attack, is transported some hundreds of years in his past. To make matters worse, he not only has lost his memory, but ImpSec sentence him to death as a spy when he is unable to account for his presence on board an Imperial Fleet hospital ship. He is off-loaded from the hospital ship in chains and admitted to a prison run by the House of Aluta pending his execution.

Steg escapes the prison when a mercenary commander recruits killers and other criminals who have been sentenced to death and establishes himself as a potential mercenary officer. He finally recovers his memory to discover the mercenaries, lured into a trap, are about to engage three Xesset starships.

Steg takes over leadership of the mercenary force and takes the fight to the Xesset. The mercenaries not only must defeat the Xesset, but they also must take over the freighter which is shipping armaments to rebels on the main planet in the Eo 3 system and then defeat the rebels in a planet-bound battle.

His adventures take him back his proper time and to Jochum II where ImpSec have taken over the base established by the Imperial Intelligence Agency. His challenge is to survive, discover what happened, and escape, because the Xesset fleet is on its way to Homeworld.

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Diamond Cut

Book 3 - Glass Complex Trilogy

Scheduled for 2015 - December. The concluding book in the trilogy.

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Shen Ark: Departure

Dr. Joseph Krowe, a young scientist in London, develops a mind-bending drug—a pharmacological-chemical-nanite [PCN] mix—tests it on himself and almost dies. He tries to market PCN to a nightclub and disasters follow. Dr. Krowe barely survives. Meantime, his drug has initiated an accelerated evolutionary change in rats—New Rats. Their natural enemies—New Cats—also evolve, and a state of war exists between the two. Rats support Dr. Krowe, and he guides and influences them, as they continue to evolve.

The drug also affects some humans.

Freddie and his family befriend Sam, a young Rat who is a member of the Rat royal family, thus commencing a strong relationship between humans and Rats. Freddie—called Engineer by his friends—takes on responsibilities to aid the Rats’ plan to purchase a starship from alien refugees—the Shen. His task is to build the bubble warp drive which he designed; the drive, if successful, will allow the starship to travel at faster than light speeds. Engineer experiences violent attacks, love, deaths of family and friends, looming deadlines, and other challenges as he attempts to meet his commitments to support the Rats’ dream to travel in space.

Rats are impatient to board their starship and depart Earth.

Humans want the alien technology.

Cats just want to kill Rats.

Shen Ark: Departure
is the beginning of a voyage that will follow Rats and a small group of humans as they attempt to achieve their dreams.

Let me know if you want more in this series
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Another Universe - Volume 1

This first volume is a collection of three short stories, totaling about 11,000 words. I intend to release further collections, mainly science fiction, although some fantasy may creep in.

The Mortgage

Sometimes GalFed commercial operations are unsupervised, planets are mined or assets reaped, and there is no guarantee the planet will survive these attentions. The Mortgage is a story at the end cycle of one such planet.

Give Peace a Chance

I recently wrote
Shen Ark: Departure
, which tells a story about mutated rats (New Rats), cats (New Cats), other animals and humans, as the Rats prepare for a voyage in a starship. The Rats and Cats of course are bitter enemies.

Rats are impatient to board their starship and depart Earth.

Humans want the alien technology.

Cats just want to kill Rats.

To give you an idea of the relationship between Rats and Cats, here is a very brief excerpt:-

Cedric shivered and hid a rush of fear from his Rats and from himself as he realized the Cats’ intense concentration was simply a prelude to their intended attack. These Cats had identified him as the leader of the New Rats, and he was their target. They stared at him with their almost glowing yellow eyes, as though each Cat was imprinting him on some feline prefrontal cortex target acquisition function. He shivered. Those yellow eyes watched his every move.

So the question arises, what would happen if one of the Cats was interested in peace? Give Peace a Chance* is the result.

(*With apologies to John Lennon.)

Grators

Grators
is one of a series of short stories about the Fleet hero, Foster Allyil. He claims he was a Colonel in the GalFed Fleet and has a starfighter stashed away—for defensive purposes only, of course. If readers are interested, I may develop his story and adventures into one or more novel length stories; I have unauthorized access to his logbooks and diaries, which should provide me with excellent material.

Occasionally, in stories about the GalFed universe, you might encounter a science fiction in-joke—if these are too obtuse, or indeed too obvious, let me know.

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