White Screen of Despair: Secret Project

1/04/2012

Secret Project

The Secret Project is one that involves a number of authors of my direct and personal acquaintance, mostly from in and around Scotland, and will be announced probably some time in the next several weeks. More soon.

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::ANGEL STATIONS::

MY FIRST NOVEL NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK. INTERZONE: "'Angel Stations' is dense and involving, puzzling and perplexing. It's unabashed science fiction, with an almost "Golden Age" feel to it, but a very modern density, the culture-shock that makes science fiction so enjoyable ... Readers will feel themselves fortunate to reap the rewards of Gibson's acts of literary heresy." [+click to expand]

DREAMWATCH: "A strong debut novel that promises well for the future and a serious contender for the shelf space currently occupied by Greg Egan and Richard Morgan."
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::AGAINST GRAVITY::

MY SECOND NOVEL NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK.
THE GUARDIAN: "...builds on current trends to produce a convincing picture of the world in 2096. The president of a besieged, terror-torn US is a religious maniac convinced he has a hot-line to God ... throughout, Gibson hints at spiritual salvation, but in keeping with the unrelenting materialism of the novel the denouement is brutally secular." [+click to expand]

It is the late 21st century, and a very different world: meet Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of The Maze, a secret research facility where thousands of political prisoners became unwilling guinea pigs in experiments to create the perfect soldier. Kendrick is trying to pick up the pieces of his life, even though he knows his nervous system, which is riddled with unstable nanotech augmentations, is slowly killing him.
Then one day, his heart stops beating, forever. A ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares a long-abandoned military complex filled with the entirely real voices of the dead. INTERZONE: "The pace is smooth and measured, avoiding the weapon based combat-scene excesses of military SF while retaining its vigour and energy. A strong second novel from an aspiring member of the growing Scotland set."

VECTOR:"In the final analysis, Against Gravity is very much a thesis on present-day America wrapped around a strong plot and characters with a speculative twist ... the timing of this book's publication makes it all the more topical and prophetic. Maybe Gibson's next book will come out just before the impending revolution."
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::FINAL DAYS::

It’s the 23rd Century and through the advent of wormhole technology more than a dozen interstellar colonies have been linked to Earth. But this new mode of transportation comes at a price and there are risks. [+click to expand]

NEW AUGUST 2011: It’s the 23rd Century and through the advent of wormhole technology more than a dozen interstellar colonies have been linked to Earth. But this new mode of transportation comes at a price and there are risks. Saul Dumont knows this better than anyone. He’s still trying to cope with the loss of the wormhole link to the Galileo system, which has stranded him on Earth far from his wife and child for the past several years.

Only weeks away from the link with Galileo finally being re-established, he stumbles across a conspiracy to suppress the discovery of a second, alien network of wormholes which lead billions of years in the future. A covert expedition is sent to what is named Site 17 to investigate, but when an accident occurs and one of the expedition, Mitchell Stone, disappears – they realise that they are dealing with something far beyond their understanding.

When a second expedition travels via the wormholes to Earth in the near future of 2245 they discover a devastated, lifeless solar system - all except for one man, Mitchell Stone, recovered from an experimental cryogenics facility in the ruins of a lunar city. Stone may be the only surviving witness to the coming destruction of the Earth. But why is he the only survivor — and once he’s brought back to the present, is there any way he and Saul can prevent the destruction that’s coming?"

::EMPIRE OF LIGHT::

THIRD BOOK OF THE SHOAL SEQUENCE. In the third Shoal book, the nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries force the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, [+click to expand]

Corso, left in charge of a fleet of Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of politically-motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all, it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light-years away, and with Ty Whitecloud, the only man alive who can decipher messages left behind by an ancient starfaring race. Unfortunately Whitecloud is imprisoned aboard a coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes. But if humanity has any hope of survival, Corso is going to have to find some way to keep him alive - and that's only if Dakota doesn't kill him first ...
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'Gripping, imaginative and morally complex...adds up to a compulsive read.' - SFX

::NOVA WAR::

SECOND BOOK OF THE SHOAL SEQUENCE. Dakota and Corso discover not only that the Shoal are caught in an aeons-long conflict with a rival starfaring species, but that the Bandati have resolved to make an alliance with this race by giving them deadly knowledge acquired from the Magi starship;[+click to expand]

forging an unholy alliance with the Shoal-member Trader, Dakota is determined to stop them - but the destruction of millions of inhabited worlds appears inevitable... UK|US & INTL Ebook:KINDLE|

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THE GUARDIAN: '...stakes his claim to be considered alongside the leading triumvirate of British hard SF writers.'
SFX: 'A sharp, sophisticated and hugely entertaining SF novel.'

::STEALING LIGHT::

FIRST BOOK OF THE SHOAL SEQUENCE. In the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. [+click to expand]

Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries, establishing a dozen human colony worlds scattered along Shoal trade routes. Dakota Merrick, while serving as a military pilot, has witnessed atrocities for which this alien race is responsible. Now piloting a civilian cargo ship, she is currently ferrying an exploration team to a star system containing a derelict starship. From its wreckage, her passengers hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive of mysteriously non-Shoal origin. But the Shoal are not yet ready to relinquish their monopoly over a technology they acquired through ancient genocide.

THE TIMES: 'A violent, inventive, relentlessly gripping adventure ... intelligently written and thought-provoking.'
SFX: 'A gripping interplanetary saga close in tone to both Alistair Reynolds and Peter F Hamilton, but with enough edge and imagination to give it its own unique flavour...a seriously entertaining sci-fi pageturner.'
STARBURST: 'Ambitious, clever and ultimately rewarding ... Impressive.'
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