How would you survive without electricity..., anywhere?
The Earth enters a nebulous cloud, making everything using electricity obsolete, the people of Earth having to survive by living a life before electricity was harnessed.
Nelson lives on a farm outside Seahaven, a small coastal town, for peace and quiet, until his daughter Rachel demands he help the town survive, and he grudgingly does her bidding. But then the town relies on him whenever they have a problem. After being shot, he's had enough and hikes out into the nearby mountains, and into danger.
Lawan, from the nearby city of Beretta, knows it's no longer safe. Looking for a safe place to live, she stumbles across Nelson. Can she trust him and assimilate into the township of Seahaven?
Sebastian, an underworld figure in Beretta, realises his existing life is over. So he devises a plan to move to Seahaven and make it his own, only to have Nelson get in his way. Sebastian intends giving Nelson an incentive to let him have what he wants.
Everyone thinks their problems are over until a gang of nomads ride into Seahaven and take it over as their own fiefdom. The residents look to Nelson again to save them. Knowing he must finally take a stand to protect the people he loves, Nelson confronts the nomads. Either they leave peacefully or he will force them out.
I'm a dreamer...always have been.
I have dreamed of flying to the stars since I was a child, looking up at the Milky Way on a moonless and cloudless winter's night, wondering what's out there.
I started writing in 2016 and now write full time. Ten published books later, I'm still writing strong with many more stories in my head for others to enjoy. My stories revolve around science fiction, primarily space based stories with as strong an element of hard science as I can place into the stories. This means they usually occur in the near future (next one to two hundred years). But I do delve into the fantastic sci fi for stories of intrigue and adventure other than hard science based ones.
Before taking up writing, I undertook chemical engineering in the steel industry for 35 years.
So I now write, drawing on my many experiences in exotic places throughout my working life. These were incredible at times! I also draw on many other experiences. Some are funny and interesting.
Being an avid reader, I read almost anything. It is common for me to read three or four books at the same time on completely differing topics, both fiction and non-fiction. I mainly enjoy reading science fiction and fantasy books, my favorite authors being Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and J.R.R. Tolkien. I also enjoy crime mysteries. Ancient and medieval history in Europe fascinate me and I use extrapolated facts from this history in my stories at times.
Cosmology, general relativity and quantum physics intrigue me. New concepts and understanding continually develop in these fields. This is exciting to me and is the way of the future. Humanity is finally escaping the shackles of Earth and seriously reaching out into space.
I rarely use aliens in my stories as the aliens I encounter in the stories I read are usually humans dressed up as aliens. So why not use humans. I do delve into genetic engineering. That is a realistic scientific development worth exploring in science fiction.
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I live in Wollongong, Australia with my wife and family.
