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The Last Crucible
With the Union and the Confederacy locked in a vicious and shadowy war for supremacy, The Last Crucible tells the story of one man’s journey to escape it all. Caught in the middle of the chaos, former Union agent, John C. Rhodes, ends up on a brutal and bloody path of discovery. He is no hero, no saint, and no deliverer – just a bad man who unwillingly becomes the champion for good.
John must first contend with his greatest adversary: himself. And there is more to him and his past than he realizes. But the path ahead offers him no peace. John’s efforts to break free of the madness only draws him deeper into the endless war, and deeper into the shadows that he is trying to escape. Old allies become new enemies, and new friends become accomplices in what will be the trial of John’s life.
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The Kindling Chronicle
A man was driving a lorry when it broke down. He got out of the cab to see if he could repair the lorry when a massive blast overturned it and rendered him unconscious. When he awoke, the world was on fire and he found some shelter in a partially ruined building. He remained there for some days before finally walking away to try to find other survivors.
He found a small family and helped them in their difficulties. He realised then that his future mission in life was to find more survivors and help them as much as possible.
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The Future Within
An underground bunker is found in the middle of a paddock. Within is decay, no trace of life and a mystery Rhuannedd and her husband need to uncover. So they assemble their team to discover what happened. Then the military steps in. What could possibly have occurred that would draw the military into their discovery? The only way to find out is to keep digging.
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The Earthenseers
Sam Brayshaw leads a mundane life in a grimy London suburb, with a job that doesn't suit him. As his affinity with nature leads to abilities he never knew he possessed, he gets drawn unwittingly into a power struggle between two ancient and powerful cults. Meanwhile, a dark threat is watching and waiting from a billion light years away, and it will only be satisfied with the total obliteration of all life on Earth.
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The Crystals
‘...Ben shivered and looked with horror at what he saw. Before his eyes, the water in the lake slowly receded and an icy wind whistled through the window… He could not believe what was happening—everything was disappearing. The lake was a dry hollow, the meadows had become barren and the trees stood before him stripped of their leaves and bark. The sky darkened and then everything turned white and he could see a figure standing alone on the frosted ground…’
Ben, a young adult, aware of his strange origins and power, finds himself at the epicentre of a terrible cataclysmic fight for Earth’s survival as we know it. He must advance his powers to save the world and develop his human compassion to win over the most reluctant of allies.
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The Bear's Cage Unlocked
It is 2041, 10 years after the Iran-Israeli nuclear war. The Gulf is a radioactive wasteland. Fires continue to burn out of control and a warm blanket of smog envelops the earth. Sea levels rise as the polar ice melts. The world economy has stuttered to a halt. The UK emergency government continues in power, self-interested, unelected, and corrupt. Repression triggers a backlash from the radical groups, and 10 years of bitter civil war follow. A new radical group is funding the armed struggle and is seeking a showdown.
Mary Brand, head of counterintelligence for the main rebel group wants to restart the democratic process. Bryan Sansom, section chief at MI5 sees a chance for peace and works with Sarah Chilcott Minister for National Defence to bring the opposition in from the cold. Sansom is desperate to find out who is bankrolling the opposition groups. Time is beginning to run out.
Richard Smart, Minister for Homeland Security is determined to impose order at all costs terrified by the spectre of Easter Island Syndrome where a society turns in on itself and begins to self-destruct. He believes all opposition must be crushed before the nation can be reborn.
Brand and Chilcott are relying on the bravery of Jon Grogan a troubled ex-soldier to bring sanity back to the world, helped by Sukri Chakraborty an MI5 agent. An attack on the new Thames Gateway Barrier on the eve of a tidal surge from the North Sea threatens to derail the peace process and devastate London.
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Terra
It all started with the lights failing on Jupiter... How did it end up like this?
Watching intently as one by one the domes begin to fill with light, Gabby waits for the remaining two to turn on. Frowning she asks, “Do the last two normally take a while?”
“No, the domes are timed to light up as soon as night falls…”
Vita and her crew explored the galaxy terraforming planets for the Federation, looked down on by everyone with a respectable job until it came to the lights failing on Jupiter’s Penta-dome.
Going down to investigate, they realised they got more than they bargained for, but it wasn’t in Vita to back down from a challenge… even when Commander Vox showed up with the crew of The Sentinel. Now the highest decorated faction and the lowest faction were about to be forced to work together.
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Ten Minutes On Mars
Welcome to a place beyond the borders of the imagination. The signpost up ahead reads Blackest Hole in the Universe. This is Hallowe'en Town, a singularity in Hell.
This is a town stuck in time and located on a fault line where the magical, mystical, and supernatural intersect with the dreary and the mundane, creating a confluence of otherworldliness.Enter, if you will, to a collection of eighteen breathtaking short stories by the author, Jonathan Fisher. He will regale you with tales of blood-curdling terror that will chill you to bone marrow. He will take you to the utmost reaches of the future, and then suddenly, without warning, thrust you back in time to fantasy realm. Witness blazing amazing classic science fiction action.
The first volume of short stories include Ten Minutes to Mars.
“An eclectic collection of thoughtful and imaginative stories. Jonathan’s writing is thoroughly researched and he creates a rich experience for the reader. The cover looks amazing, very professional and has a great science fiction traditional feel.”
— Pat Mills, creator of 2000 AD, the galaxy’s greatest comic.
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Surfacing Glitch
In 1865, Duncan regains consciousness on Bidston Moss, a freezing desolate marshland on the Wirral peninsula. His mind has been rebooted; all his memories erased. But something in the procedure has not gone to plan; there is blood all over his shirt – not his own – and he feels an irresistible passion for a woman he has no recollection of, her face somehow etched into his mind.
In a typical overreaction, Lucie heads to present day Lisbon after receiving a weird and disturbing voicemail from her friend Emma who is on a physics internship for the summer at the prestigious Bisset Science Institute. But Lucie finds no answers in Lisbon as unwittingly she is sucked ever deeper into a chaotic and terrifying mystery.
These two disparate storylines woven into the fabric of space and time converge inescapably as the implications of Duncan’s original surfacing collide head on with Lucie’s ever more desperate attempts to uncover what has become of her friend.
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Soot
The nation of Abradia is now prosperous and at peace. The Jaana, a hostile gang of warlords, have long been vanquished by The Republic, and all seems right in the world. That is, until a mysterious stranger comes to the small town of Gourdston looking for someone to carry his bags. He settles for a volunteer, a young chimney sweep called Soot. Soot is quickly swept away into the adventure of a lifetime, where he soon discovers that The Republic isn’t as wonderful as he was taught to believe, and the Jaana are far from gone…
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Soot
Soot is a powerful and secretive substance.
Little is known of the crystal’s origins, but its multiple uses make it the most expensive commodity in the country. A commodity on which New Chimera was built.
New Chimera is a steampunk metropolis separated by wealth into two ringed districts, with the only consistent links between them being the secrets and corruption that flow like water, fuelled by its dictatorial ruling family, the Flintlocks.
The only people able to travel freely (although illegally) through the districts are the varied street gangs who battle for truth, liberty and survival on a daily basis.
Red is the newest resident of New Chimera, after spending his formative years in one of the city’s many orbiting orphanages, where the unexplained death of his brother alienated him entirely.
After falling in debt to a gang of underground freedom fighters, Red must fight, steal and possibly kill his way to not only uncover the answer to his brother’s death but also the true origins of New Chimera’s wealth and the terrifying link between the two.
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Smar: Return of the Machines
Back on Topside and a chance discovery reunites our gang of misfits for a second perilous adventure. With Nerak and Karel remaining on Topside to watch their discovery, Tega meets with his old friends to meet up with the now-released professor Snikwah at the infamous resort of Rocby-on-Sea. There they meet up with Fisah, an old friend of Ha’ans.
Their journey will take them across the Sea of Despair, and along the Ancient Highway. What they find at the end of the Highway amazes and confuses them.
Below and in a secret scientific research centre, a strange device from the landing site emits sounds. Unaware of its significance and unsure of its risk to Below, the Hierarchy sends a reluctant Professor Xoc and the device on the fastest and most terrifying way across Topside to meet up with our crew.
Meanwhile, Raciv, head of the clerics, is aware of what secrets lie at the end of the Highway. He has deemed that no one finds out the truth about the National Library. Jes is despatched to make sure of this, but with his newfound knowledge and friendship with the once abandoned journalist Asil, will Jes obey or defy his master’s orders?
What has Asil discovered and just how far will she go to get revenge?
All this culminates in a historic meeting of Simians and Machine – which would bring about a new era for both.
A new era that will bring about events that will change things forever.
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