Shaven Wookiee

My work finished to date!

Summer 2006: 42 people are snatched from the London Underground in a blinding flash of light. They are unsure where they have been taken, or who has taken them. They are in mortal peril, but there is one among them who can break them free: Adam Caine, a reluctant war hero. After escaping, Caine is dragged again and again into conflict after conflict. As the violence escalates, can even a war hero make the right decision? Or will he damn himself forever, and lose everything he holds dear? The Legend of Adam Caine is a collection of not-so-short stories about, you guessed it, Adam Caine, a former Royal Marine and SB Operator. It’s his journey through the 41st Century, meeting all sorts of weird and wonderful characters, finding a family, and ultimately saving the universe (of course). It’s available on Amazon, and various other online book stores, but it’s probably cheaper to get it from Authorhouse directly (don’t ask me why).

It’s the 41st Century, Terra has been gone for more than a century, but mankind has already spread across the stars, encountering millions of species, and become masters of space, their military might and superior technology used in the name of peace and universal stability. But now a relatively unknown race has conquered a large sector of Terran space and slaughtered billions of innocent civilians. 4007AD, the insectoid race known as the Jalic have been entrenched in a sector in the Andromeda Galaxy for nearly 200 days, and every attempt to wrest control from them has been rebuffed. The elite Pathfinders are called in with the hope of breaking the deadlock. As the regiment launches for the final battle to decide the fate of the capital planet, Nano Rimmo, they are struck by a vicious ion storm. Within the storm, the Jalic’s primitive fighter jets reap a bloody toll, and force the regiment back to base. But one of their dropships, the regiment’s 15th Platoon, is missing, shot down during the battle and left behind. The survivors are led by combat veteran Staff Sergeant Deef Alcott, and they set out for home. But there’s a problem: they’re going the wrong way! When they realise, they’re a hundred kilometres behind enemy lines with no way home, except to fight the final battle that the regiment couldn’t. To escape the Jalic, they must utterly destroy them, or they will not survive. Recon is currently available on Amazon in both paperback and kindle formats on ALL sites.

Reverend Gerald Bishop has lost his faith. In 4000 AD, he joined a medical mission of mercy to a distant sector along with several other survivors. He was lost and bewildered by the new world of the 41st Century. But twenty years later, he and a handful of others are struggling to stay alive whilst a deadly -and disturbingly familiar- plague ravages entire sectors of space. As his friends and colleagues drop from illness, he will come to realise that there are greater threats out there… Threats in the shape of The Core… This book was initially an entire sub-plot within Ghosts of Earth, the sequel to The Legend of Adam Caine. But as I was going through the proof of Ghosts recently, I realised that the sub-plot was in fact not entirely necessary to the main plot, as the main characters only mention it in passing and it doesn’t directly affect the story. Do you want to know the funny thing, though? This story was actually the only bit from the previous six start-ups of Ghosts. I never finished those first six, but still kept the Bishop storyline because I liked it so much. My aim with the Bishop story was to show loss of faith, and to show another weapon of the Core that WILL re-appear during the Core War. Although this book takes place around the same time as Ghosts of Earth, it is intended (now) to be a prequel, and foreshadow certain events within the novel. Lament is available on ebook only over on Amazon.

Ordered into a quarantine zone against their wishes with no back-up and no clue as to what they are facing, the officers and crew of the HMS Phoenix are heading into trouble. But when they land on the planet Mirana after the plague has devastated all life, including the lives of the medical ship Klinsmann, they get more than they bargained for. Those killed by the plague begin rising from their graves, and attack the shore party. When the team is brought back on board, the nightmare begins as walking corpses begin infesting the ship. Can Captain Vanderhak and his crew survive? As with The Lament of Reverend Bishop, The Phoenix Incident is intended as a set-up for Ghosts of Earth, telling the story of some of the background of a particular character. In this case: Ubis Vanderhak, future XO of the HMS Roland Westwood. Unlike Lament, where I used several forgotten chapters discarded from Ghosts, this is a brand new story written from scratch. It wasn’t necessarily meant to be a straight-up zombie story, but more about the decisions made by the captain, and the guilt attached to those decisions which reverberate into Ghosts. As well as being a prelude to Ghosts of Earth, these stories are also meant as an introduction to the plague that will re-appear further along down the line. Thinking about it, that was probably a bit of a spoiler, but by then you’ll all have forgotten that, won’t you? MWAHAHAHAHA!!! Like Lament, The Phoenix Incident is available only as an ebook preface to Ghosts of Earth on Amazon.

The Core are conquerors, wiping out worlds and civilisations without hesitation on their path to victory. For twenty years, they have been preparing the way for their hordes of warriors; manipulating others to do their dirty work. Many are willing to bow to them, or treat with them. But there are a brave few that will stand in their way. Can Adam Caine and his trusted allies stand and fight? Or will they be lost in the coming conflict? This is the direct sequel to The Legend of Adam Caine, set ten years after the end of that book, and featuring three specific storylines: Adam Caine, Commander Ubis Vanderhak, and Ruul Vin-Bornn, each dealing with the Core’s attempts at sabotage and murder, all culminating in my biggest attempt at a space battle yet! It’s available on createspace’s own online bookstore, as well as Amazon and Smashwords!

The Samaritan was once a legendary figure, a smuggler without equal. He could run any blockade, escape any trap, all the while his moral compass keeping him from becoming an outright criminal. But personal tragedy broke him completely, and he lives at the bottom of a bottle. On the Ark, he meets a young girl with her own tragic past, and a package that could change the balance of power in the Nineteen Galaxies. She hires him to take her home, but he doesn’t realise just why she is running so hard. A whole cadre of bounty hunters are after her, and now him, as well as members of the Terran Navy and the shadowy Tactical Support Unit. Can even the infamous Samaritan protect her? If he fails, billions of lives could be at stake. My first attempt at actually writing something with a message in (or at least writing things that are a definite pull from my own life -child loss and alcoholism).

“I was there, the day humanity lost it’s soul.” In the 41st Century, Earth (or Terra as it is known to the denizens of the Nineteen Galaxies) is but a distant memory. Only a few know what it was like to stand on its surface, to look around at the homeworld of humanity, to see the birthplace of one of the greatest starfaring races that has passed through the stars in eons. But, it was still important to those who live on in a universe without Earth. It is now regarded as a holy site, a graveyard of unequal size. Although humanity has left the Sol system behind, it still stands as a symbol. But what happened? Once this series is over, can you answer the question? This isn’t a typical series in that it doesn’t follow one specific set of characters. It does follow a few characters through several stories, but not “Part one, Part two,” etc and not all in chronological order. This is going to be epic… “Where were you when Terra fell?”

World War Three has ended, a new Earth government rising in place of the countries of old. But in the mountains of old Germany, an old threat from the last War is rising, with a new leader, and an ancient legend at its head. Major Simon Pasch is sent by the new Earth government to investigate the disappearance of a Delta Force team that went missing during the War. The eerie old Luftwaffe base holds many secrets, but can he survive to tell the tale? And why are the dead coming back to life? This was technically not a collaboration as such, but Mr. Sylvester still deserves a huge amount of credit for the story, not only pushing me to submit to the Raus! Untoten! anthology series, but also pointing out the horrendous mistakes, and giving me a gentle push in the right direction with the story itself…

Thirty-one stories written daily over a month with a one-word prompt for each (which are the titles). It was a lot of fun to write, with some obvious (and not so obvious) sci-fi references. As always, it is part of the Nineteen Galaxies universe.

Overarching series that covers a wide variety of stories not related to each other. All feature a random (but not necessarily whole) slice of life from the Nineteen Galaxies universe, even some fan favourites!

‘She was just eating her meal when she smelled a male wolf nearby – not one of her own. She watched him warily as he came slowly toward the three pups that were out the enclosure again.’ Lost Mate, Terry Spear – US Today Bestseller Featuring poems, stories and haiku with the theme of wolves and the truth as each author perceives it. Discover wolves in a sci-fi setting, followed by in character views of wolves in their natural settings and in conflict with humans. All proceeds go to Artisan Rarebreeds. Registered Charity Number HMRC XT37297 Charity Anthology featuring me twice! Two stories on everybody’s favourite Nineteen Galaxies wolves: the Rijiins, including humanity’s first contact with them.

Not actually released yet, it is the prequel story of Adam Caine before he became the Legend, before he stepped onto that fateful Underground train.