Jim Cheshire

Jim Cheshire was born in 1959 and grew up in the wilds of England. He played in rock and roll bands, held down jobs on building sites and lumber yards, and was also a gas fitter for six months. He came to the city to sample the bright lights, and with ideas to start a recording studio and record label. He found employment as the senior artist for a newspaper group, before the advent of computer graphics and desktop publishing.

He wrote his first book (at the third attempt) in 1981 and finding that the traditional and declining publishing industry was not supportive, began self-publishing and selling novels, magazines and his own comic books. His series of 'real life novels' were fictionalised under the name of Jack Barrett and chronicled the independent musical exploits of the Midlands indie scene.

From the mid-nineties, Jim found some creative success with his art, music and books and, feeling that wasn't enough, started making 'scene movies', creating a graphics company, music publisher and several small literature producers along the way. He built the distribution company Transurban, and a music and film studio called Omicron West.

In 2004, with the music industry in cultural decline, Jim decided it was time to retire to one of his favourite parts of the Mediterranean to write monolithic novel series and grow olives. Unfortunately, God laughed at his plans and the great worldwide financial fraud of 2007 saw him retreat to the safety of Old Blighty, before Europe could become financially insolvent.

In lieu of retirement, and with an office building full of media that had been brought out of storage, Jim is now committed to unloading everything onto the internet.

His novel series 'Random Skies' was started in 1999. The first episode, 'Quorum', concerned a totalitarian world order, micro-chipping the surviving population of an earlier pandemic that wiped out most of the world in 2024. It now seems appropriate to post the entire series.

Future plans include a complete reissue of the Jack Barrett books, and other series including The Chaos Merchants, Spellbinder, The Sun Temple Codex and some stand alone novels of the 1980s.

In a move reminiscent of the original Star Trek movie, Jim plans to upload all remaining data gathered throughout this trip through the universe, including music, art and video, returning it to the source of his inspiration.