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Hidden City
​My new book is out, Hidden City. Hiding out in a remote part of the empire, working as a mechanic, Alf is recruited to fix a spaceship off the books. Instead, he ends up in a gigantic alien facility fighting for his life, with one of his few allies being a female police sergeant who keeps calling him scum.
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Inclusion in fantasy?
​The fantasy book I'm reading has a love affair between a female Orc and a female Dwarf. Yep, a lesbian Orc-Dwarf connection. I won't mention the title or author, but I will complain. Whatever happened to the willowy Elvish princess (Welsh actress Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in the Rings of Power series, pictured right, is a good example) and lusty swordsmen I read about in fantasy as a youth? This inclusion business has gone too far.
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Mobile phones will dominate
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After an unfortunate episode in which I managed to lose my mobile phone, I have concluded that our phones will soon become the dominant life force. Being without a phone for a few hours and then having to buy a pre-paid device was horrible. My phone has since been returned to me, but the episode made me realise that it owns me. Soon the hive intelligence that is the Earth's phone network will rule. Wait, I hear my phone calling me.
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No Wolves in Los Angeles
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My new book is out but this time I've written a romance. Weird, I know but I couldn't help it. Don't blame me I'm just the writer. Here is the description.
When top Hollywood star and bad girl Clarise Chalmers met a writer of trashy military science fiction William Moreland by chance in a bar she knew he was not her type at all. He was good looking but not of the film star standard she had come to expect. Anyway, she had a boyfriend - another top star and heart throb for millions of female fans. But Will made a lot of sense suggesting solutions to problems that had been plaguing her so she hired him as a business consultant warning him that their relationship would be strictly professional. Fresh from a disastrous relationship with an aspiring actress Will was happy to take the star at her word, but Clarise should have taken more trouble to warn herself.
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My new book is out but this time it's non-fiction. The book discusses efforts by state governments and activists to destroy the fossil fuel generating capacity of the Eastern Australian grid in the vain hope that renewables will take the place of coal and gas-fired plants. As the book points out there is now considerable evidence that renewables cannot provide the 24/7 power which is essential to any modern grid.
Instead of acknowledging this reality, those involved descend into madness - insisting that Hydrogen is the new LNG or that offshore wind generators can somehow be made economic. For those interested in the debate, click the link below. Published by Connor Court
The wait is over. The next chapter in the adventures of Gellibrand Obsidian has arrived. In this book, Gel goes on a dangerous mission to find out more about the alien Gagrim, but there is even more danger at home. His glamorous sex worker girlfriend has a deadly secret and he is drawn to a nightclub singer with a hitman boyfriend and a crime boss admirer who will stop at nothing to possess her.
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This web site showcases an alternate view of fiction, where the black-hearted villains - the one that the James Bonds and Luke Skywalkers of fiction regularly defeat and kill - may have their own side to tell. Vader was just trying to hold the empire together, Blofield was simply a businessman and James Bond breaks the law constantly. And what was so wrong with Dicken's Ebenezer Scrooge that required such drastic spiritual intervention?
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