Newly Released: The Skyship of Truskal
The Skyship of Truskal
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Fantasy / Science Fantasy
Telana doesn’t want to settle down — she wants to soar!
Truskal was said to be the village at the end of the world, but Telana knew that probably wasn’t so. There was the great icewall that was said to go all around the world, so large that it dwarfed mountains. Telana was determined to find out if that was true. But there was one hitch. Only boys are allowed in the fancy big schools. At least that was until she came along. It will be a long fight before she even sets sail. Between breaking centuries of tradition to antagonising dragonriders and their lucrative taxi service, she’d have a hard fight to just build her dream machine, let alone try and fly it.
The Book of Ominiue Series
Important Note: The Book of Ominiue Series is my first works. It’s a bit rough around the edges. I’m currently working on the 3rd and final book in the trilogy, and I plan to rework these two books as well and make them a bit better. Because of this, both are only available as an ebook on Amazon for the time being.
Science Fiction / Fantasy / Science Fantasy
The Earth has expanded to the stars. Colonizing habitable planets as they gradually march forwards; forever fuelling the unquenchable beast that is humanity. But their expansion outwards was met with a strange mystery. Many of the best worlds were already inhabited by human beings. Not just that but all life it seems has a shared history.
The Book of Ominiue is set upon this newest world and another intelligent species walks amongst the humans. The lionman: tall, strong, fierce. These lionman sought out the “star-people” when they saw their ships descending from the skies. What ensues is a series of events bringing both worlds together. But to what end?
Shayne Forrester was one of the colonists. A degenerate human who had an adverse effect to the long hibernation between stars. A man who was merely a shell of his former self. Retrained as a soldier he was shunned from the rest of society. The natives saw Shayne and declared him the sky messenger, the one sent to fulfil an old prophecy to bring back their lost gods.
The mediator between the locals and the colonists, Shayne is thrust between two worlds he does not understand and is slowly forced into a prophecy he has no interest in being part of.
Science Fiction / Fantasy / Science Fantasy
It’s been ten years and the planet Iraquis-Casader is about to connect to the colonised worlds of Earth for the first time.
Shayne Forrester is facing extradition back to Earth to settle his fate once and for all. Dread fills him for he knows this is one battle he cannot win. The prophecy was short-lived it seemed and his time had run out.
The lionman, Kíe’athraden is also waiting. As one of the many selected ambassadors, he will not only represent his nation but also his planet. As the first real alien ambassador he knows his life will change beyond recognition, the real question is how much?
There is no turning back now. Nothing will ever be the same.
Lionman is the second book in the Book of Ominiue series, following on from Starborn.
Whanregoon Adventures – By Stephen Barnham (my old man)
Restless for Whanregoon
A Whanregoon Adventure
General Fiction – Australiana
General Fiction – Australiana
The goldfields hold adventure and freedom most can only dream about. Set in the 1990s Frank and Brian Champion are middle-aged brothers living a self-reliant life gold prospecting and mining in regional Victoria. Living onsite in a small hut the brothers live a happy and secluded life until trouble comes from the outside world, forcing them from their home.
As the last survivors in their mining family they discover they have inherited a house in Ballarat, along with its debt Surrounded by eccentric neighbours who know their every thought and move the despair grows. Made worse when they’re forced onto welfare and assigned help from the same family who forced them from their mine and home to begin with.
But gold miners are dreamers and opportunists. When they stumble onto some ancient mine plans and diaries they can’t resist the chance and they embark upon a journey that will either kill or free them. What have they got to lose?
Written by a gold prospector who knows the highs and lows of city and bush. The story of the brothers is about struggling in a rapidly changing world that uses enforced submission and created insecurity as a means of control, often unrealised by its victims. To quote a line from The Truman Show: “We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that”. The brothers look beyond the presented reality to restore their own.
