Books

Title: Not Like Us
Release Date: 29 June, 2024
Pages: 108
Where to Buy:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7HSQZYK
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A war began when melting tundra uncovered an early species of horse and a flock of seabirds as old as humankind. The world forever changed and many of humankind didn’t survive, but it enabled powerful AI to find a place in the world for the Androids and Robodogs to take over. While Jenna and Maddie survived the Earth’s Holocene Extinction Event, strange men now watched them. Living in a never-ending drought, Jenna gets caught up in a high-tech war she doesn’t understand. She yearns to complete her studies and travel to Mars, to begin a new life with Maddie. Yet a sense of unease lingers. Only when these strange men at the National Institute of Science main gates, the Watchers, enter the Institute during a crisis, does Jenna discover her privileged position. She strives to discover why this is so. But when a powerful bomb explodes, Jenna is driven by survival and forced to place her trust in the strange Watchers if she and Maddie are to survive and ultimately learn what it is to be Metamorphic.

Currently available on Kindle through Amazon. Free to read on Amazon Prime. This is intended for a younger audience, but if you like Science Fiction, or Climate Fiction (newly coined CliFi) then, this is for you.

When cracks appear across the central Australian desert, US General John Cobb discovers it marks the return of The Great Old Ones, the Elder Gods, and they are coming to take their rightful place on Earth. Cobb calls in two experts, Australian analyst, Sergeant Emerson James Ash and British Canadian archaeologist, Colonel Andrew Stone to help neutralise the threat. In Britain, Australia, Canada, south-east Asia, and the Antarctic landmass, Ash, Stone and Cobb face their own demons. Eventually, they join forces and travel through time and multiverses in order to try and save humanity, only to find that humans are a blip on the Cthulhu timeline that needs extinguishing.

Currently available on Kindle through Amazon. Free to read on Amazon Prime. If you like Science Fiction Thrillers, Military Science Fiction or Science Fantasy genres or even Lovecraft mythos then, this is for you.

Each year technology steps closer to the day when we can leave Earth to explore and colonise new worlds. But what are we going to find? How will we respond? How will people remaining on Earth cope? These twenty four stories give thought to the cosmos and our fragile place within it.

After the war, a lost, beautiful woman reaches out and connects with Colonel Andrew Stone in a way he’s never experienced. She’s in danger. Andrew struggles against time to unlock the secrets of an ancient Arthurian device and tries to save the woman before dark forces take them both.This blended fantasy is sprinkled with science fiction and a touch of the mythos, and should appeal to the dreamer in us all. Note: this story was extended and updated during 2020.

A collection of twelve (plus one) easy to read, science fiction short stories to make you think about our place in the cosmos. The collection, from award winning author, David Kernot, traces his early science fiction published works from 2006. The collection includes his first competition winning story, Genesis, his first paid publication, The Sentinel, and culminates with his Writers Of The Future Honorable Mention: Dead Man Walking.

I’ve e-published this on Amazon, Smashwords and Kobo, so it’s pretty much available everywhere for Kindle’s Apple’s and any e-reader, including text and pdf: Amazon, Apple iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Sony, Kobo, Diesel, Page Foundry, Baker and Taylor Blio, Library Direct, and Baker-Taylor Axis 360. Hopefully I haven’t missed anyone ☺ It’s a collection of seven of my dark fiction; military sci-fi horror stories and a dark poem, and includes the award winning Winds of Nzambi I wrote with the talented David Conyers.

I think the best story of the non-collaboration has to be Harry’s Dead Poodle, which was recently published in the March 2013 edition of Cover of Darkness Magazine, but I’ve also thrown in one unpublished story, Revenants of Sophie, that is dark on so many levels, I can understand several publisher’s reluctance to publish it as it touches an area most people would have concerns about if they had a daughter (and even possibly a son) using the internet.