OPENING CHAPTERS OF BOOKS
1 PROMETHEUS; OR, THE MODERN SUPERHERO IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a free mind, must be in want of a superhero. However little known the feelings or views of such a woman on a superhero first entering her neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the superhero’s mind that the...
1 TIME FOR CRIME SKYLAR HOLMES AND her bonded shapeshifter scampered through the darkened dimly lit starship Faraway’s Main Cargo Bay, taking care to keep to one side out of sight of the Main Cargo Bay door window. They were heading for the eight huge alien property trunks lined neatly along a slightly raised rectangular platform in the dark recesses...
1 THE INVISIBLE APOCALYPTIC KILLER Highcliffe, Dorset, England, Earth, Sunday, July 4th, 4230 OF THE EIGHT chairs in the conical command module resting atop of the descending, roaring, humongous 124-yard-high MER-2 liquid-hydrogen fuelled rocket, only one was occupied. A twenty-eight-year-old Tony Koster looked down at an extremely primitive low-battery powered controls display. The MER-2, in full, the Moon-to-Earth-and-Return-2, was fortunately...
1 DR TEMPEST PEARSON MONDAY, JANUARY 12th, 2026, and it seemed like the dawn of any other bright wintry day for the small English Northumbrian port and ex-coalmining town of Blyth. There, in the slowly lifting darkness, the town, just minding its own business, was gently waking up to the constant tickling of the cold North Sea. Surely this tiny,...
1 REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS EVENTUALLY, AFTER WHAT seemed a long time, Dr Pearson found himself dizzily starting to regain consciousness. He was lying curled up on the hard oak wooden floorboards of his classroom. That much he could tell. A clammy sickness had gripped his wretched body, and he felt as if he was going to throw up at any moment....
1 OLIVIA DR PEARSON’S PARTY were excited to start boarding Captain Palmer’s Global Space Control shuttle craft. They found themselves spilling into a small featureless circular entrance area. Almost everything was polished metal, the ceiling, the walls and the floor. However, a more careful examination revealed, among other things, ceiling lights, wall cupboards, and a rectangular door that must have...
1 THE WRITER HELLO. I’M ABOUT to write a story. What’s it about? Not too sure yet because it’s only this morning that it started to flood into my head like water from a bath tap that someone’s turned on to the full. I can’t turn it off, so I had better get my act together. I’m not sure where...
1 MARIO’S CAFÉ BUT THE BOTTOM-OF-THE-GARDEN-SPACESHIP did not splash down. It landed in its usual way, touching down as gently as a falling feather as its positron underlay cushioned the craft onto something hard. Tommy had landed on some huge concrete flagstone paving slabs. Outside the window, he could see himself in the familiar setting of the central shopping area...
1 URGLAND ARRIVAL DOWN, DOWN, DOWN climbed Logan and Tommy. Hand under hand. Foot under foot. Tommy moved like a machine. Logan moved like an elastic monkey. After about twenty feet, Logan heard a loud metallic click sounding from above his head. When he stopped and looked up, he saw that the air-vent cover had been replaced. “Tommy, Debbie’s put...
1 THE HOW TO FOOL A FOOL LOGAN AND TOMMY’S party took on the low hedge dividing the adjacent fields like a mob of athletes competing in an Olympic steeplechase final. Even Toby hurdled the low hedge, despite carrying Justin in his backpack. Meanwhile, the drover ahead of them was at the head of his heard of a dozen Hereford...
1 NOTHING IS COMPLETELY SECURE LONDON, ENGLAND, MID-JUNE. An unexpected morning storm of titanic proportions pulverised the city. Gales, rain, lightning and thunder, the black storm had it all. The rain fell like a never-ending sea. Heavy flash flooding started to swamp the whole of the London area. Shallow rivers of rainwater flooded the roads along the banks of the...
1 THE ANTIGRAVITY SPACESHIP The red planet, Mars, was serenely orbiting the Sun. A number of robotic devices had touched its surface, some even spending years crawling across its skin. Six such pesky devices were crawling along its skin right now, drilling, analysing and gathering samples. And Mars had no idea that the people who created and sent all these...
1 THE ONE-MILLIONTH CUSTOMER CATHERINE (12), SEAN (11), LIBBY (9) and their cousin Kevin (11), the highly adventurous Londoners, had decided to visit Harrods in London, one of the biggest and most famous department stores in all the world. They travelled on the London Underground from Ockendon station to Slone Square station and were now strolling leisurely down Hans Road,...
1 THE ULTIMATE ENGLISH VICTORY London, June 21st, 2138 LONDON WAS WAKING up to another day dominated, as usual, by the world’s leading organisation, the omnipotent and ubiquitous wallpad ORANGE corporation (wallpad always in lowercase and ORANGE always capitalised) … The lead newsreader on the internet’s most popular news channel, wallpad channel WP1, allowed a gloriously superficial smile to stretch cheesily...
1 KING TRUMP’S INCREASINGLY UGLY TIMELINE TRUMP’S RISE TO dominance was the victory of the one over the many; that is to say, of Trump himself over everybody else. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he thrust a rusty iron knife down the throat of everyone else who stood in his path on his way to gaining complete...
1 THE UNPERFECT COG IN THE PERFECT MACHINE THE SCORCHING SUN beat down mercilessly on Newer York from the perpetually coloured iron-grey sky. Usually a thick blanket of smog covered the city, but today was a Perfect sunny day. Perfect with a capital “P”. Perfect: A state of being or doing that is exactly as nature intends for humans...
1 THE HIGH READER THE PLANET FICTION had no accompanying sun, yet its entire surface was bathed in a bright light that was somehow natural and indistinguishable from a keen sunlight. Huge purple leaved trees, tall and springy and bending gracefully as if in a gentle breeze, dominated the planet’s surface, yet there was no atmosphere. The trees looked as...
1 THE DAYDREAMER JENNY STARED AT THE POSTER of the boy. What schoolgirl wouldn’t? He was very handsome. His pale-blue eyes gazed lovingly back at the lime-green eyes of the royal blue school-uniformed mass of infatuation. Jenny. Jenny Sullivan. Jenny in a dream. In no time at all, Jenny’s mind wandered off to a far distant paradise … There they...
1 ROSE IRIS LAVENDER ROSE IRIS LAVENDER walked with a wiggle and a waggle, not a girl of over-confidence but one simply full of life. Her mind soared free as a bird in a bright summer sky. She would swoop and glide, under and over, around and between her fresh and often original ideas, until she had finally exhausted...
1 EXCITING NEWS! “MUM!” SHOUTED SALLY MUNKTON between quick breaths as she exploded into her terraced house. She had run all the way home from school without stopping despite the strap of her school shoulder bag sawing into her neck. Meanwhile, Mrs Munkton hardly flinched at the familiar heavy slam of the front door as she sat in the...
1 EXCITING NEWS! “MUM!” SHOUTED SALLY MUNKTON between quick breaths as she exploded into her terraced house. She had run all the way home from school without stopping despite the strap of her school shoulder bag sawing into her neck. Meanwhile, Mrs Munkton hardly flinched at the familiar heavy slam of the front door as she sat in the...
1 FINDING SYLVESTER’S SECRET PASSAGE AS THEY MARCHED excitedly along the stone-walled hallway of the wing, Tim asked, “Sylvester? Have you ever tried to find the secret of the Royal Way?” “Ah yes, young man. I have not found it yet. But it is here somewhere—you can be sure of that. Finding it is all I live for!” said Sylvester...
1 OH BROTHER! BEFORE I TELL you about the crazy and incredible adventure my brother and I recently stumbled into, I think I had better just say a word or two about him. His name’s Gerald and he thinks of himself as a great writer. No doubt, he would believe that he should be writing you this story. But I...
GO TO EACH STORY FOR ITS OPENING CHAPTERS: THE NEED FOR CONSCIOUSNESS Follow the story of a desperate one-man operation to seek out and deactivate a robot on a distant planet, a robot believed to have murdered an entire human colony. A planet with no indigenous animal life but plenty of indigenous and extremely lethal plant life. A great...
1 THE PLANET OF RAIN AND FLORA “DAMN RAIN!” HOWLED Charlie Thompson, as he trampled and squelched a path cautiously through an open stretch of alien land covered in what looked to him like blue lettuce plants. He cut quite a forlorn figure in his grey space-security-agency uniform as he toiled beneath the cruel rain. And the rain fell. And...
1 SEEKING WATER SOPHIE HAD RUBBED anti-dazzle tanning cream on every part of her exposed polished metal skin. Otherwise she would blind her grandfather and be easily spotted from miles distant, such was the power of the dazzling overhead fiery sun. “We’re running pretty low on water, Gramps,” said Sophie, as she and her grandfather continued to struggle across...
1 THE ROBOTIC FLY THE HAMILTON CHILDREN, Stephen, Madison, Paul and Jade, aged twelve, eleven, nine and seven, respectively, were happily enjoying their last Sunday summer picnic before the beginning of the autumn school term. They were relaxing on some mowed grass in a clearing in the middle of some of the woods just inside the grounds of Black Park...
1 THE CREATIONIST FUNDAMENTALISTS IT WAS JULY 2401, and still no sign of life had been found anywhere but on the Earth. The consequences of this fact had serious social, spiritual and political repercussions. The Space Agency was the last outpost of science and technology. She was an island of hope, floating alone in a sea of religious self-righteousness that...
1 A RARE ARRIVAL THE DILAPIDATED RAILWAY station lay sleeping in the searing heat of the American Southwest desert sun. It was just a single wooden platform attached to a simple wooden building. Opposite the platform, on the other side of a single glistening steel track, sprawled a thirsty sun-baked sandy desert with a heat haze, making it seem...
1 CHASING A MYTH IT WAS HAPPENING twenty miles west of London in the county of Berkshire, England. On a scorching summer’s day in the middle of June, the chase was definitely on … Along the old winding, Saint Mary’s Road, deep in the heart of the highly populated village of Langley, sped eagerly two forest-green grammar school uniforms—and, of course,...
1 THE PROFESSIONAL DUMMY DEEP IN THE bowels of the London Palladium, Argyll Street was a corridor filled with dressing rooms. Each dressing room door had a bright gold star painted on its outside. On one particular door, the name of the act currently occupying the room was papered beneath its gold star: The Great Bentley and his Talking...
1 A HEARTLESS CRIME Aberdeen. Friday, 2nd August 2013 DARKNESS FINALLY FELL and began to cool the effects of a sweltering day as a light breeze swept down a tranquil Sunnyside Road near the University of Aberdeen. The huge grey-stoned tenements that lined one side of the street hid a ghastly secret … Two streets away, a pair of police...
1 Anthony the Ant Gets Lost THE SUN WAS dropping heavily, huge and red, at the end of a summer’s day. Anthony was an ant, and Anthony was lost, very lost indeed. “Oh dear,” moaned Anthony, “The sun is disappearing, and the stars are coming out to twinkle, and I’m lost.” Anthony stopped walking, sat on a pebble,...
PROLOGUE ONCE UPON A … Hmm? What is that missing word? In the world way, way into the future, everyone has forgotten it! For this is a fairytale from the future and not from the past—although a Fairy of the Past does come in to it! In this future where Amy Ivystone lives, thick forests, lonely mountains and roaring rivers dominate...
1 THE NEO MIRROR Anil Choudhry knew that no moving parts and a relatively flat design meant escape from poverty. His determination—his obsession—had cost him everything. So here he was, all alone in his government sponsored work-unit applying his moulding machinery to the formula and materials that should produce a near as damn it flat section of mirror, two...
1 72 FRITH STREET THERE ONCE WAS a young girl, only six years old and very short for her age. She was the smallest girl in her school, and her name was Sally Murphy. She was an only child and lived with her father Martin Murphy. On the very day she was born, her mother died. Sally always asked, “Was...
1 MAGICAL BEGINNINGS “Mum, this is the end, isn’t it?” said seven-year-old Tammy, looking with her big sad green eyes at her mother. “The end of what?” asked her mother, who also had big green eyes, but her green eyes showed no signs of sadness, in fact, quite the opposite, her big green eyes showed signs of playful excitement. “The...
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SCI-FI YA-ADULT NOVELS
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A WALLPAD ORANGE
KING TRUMP
THE LAST ROBOT
METAFICTION
FULL CIRCLE
THE LAND OF THE YELLOW SEA
ROBOT HORIZON (AN ANTHOLOGY)
ROBOT HORIZON SERIES (7-BOOK SERIES)
RH: 1. THE NEED FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
RH: 2. WHEN TEARS HAVE DRIED
RH: 3. THE NEANDERTHAL SECRET
RH: 4. THE FINAL DECEPTION
RH: 5. A BLIP IN MODERNITY
RH: 6. THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
RH: 7. GRAND FINALE
THE EQUALISERS SERIES (A TRILOGY)
1.PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND SUPERHEROES
2. SKYLAR HOLMES: THE LAST HOPE
3. STARSHIP WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THE OWNER OF THE CROWN SERIES (A TRILOGY)
THE OWNER OF THE CROWN: 1. THE ECCENTRIC CROSSER
THE OWNER OF THE CROWN: 2. SALIMAN ATTACKS
THE OWNER OF THE CROWN: 3. THE ULTIMATE BATTLE
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THE ULTIMATE SERIAL KILLER
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NEO MIRROR AND OTHER STORIES
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CHILDREN”S BOOKS
PLANET OF THE GIRLS
ONCE UPON A …
THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
THE LOST LITTLE ANT
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
THE LONDONERS SERIES (ONGOING …)
THE LONDONERS: THE SECRET UNDERGROUND CITY
THE LONDONERS: SILENT RUNNING
THE LONDONERS: SHOPPING MALL WORLD
TO BE OR NOT TO BE SERIES (A DUOLOGY)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE: 1. A SPECIAL VISITOR
TO BE OR NOT TO BE: 2. A SPECIAL VISIT
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BRITLAND CALLING (FULL 4-BOOK NOVEL)
BRITLAND CALLING SERIES (A 4-BOOK SERIES)
BRITLAND CALLING: 1. A TRIP TO ANOTHER EARTH
BRITLAND CALLING: 2. BRITLAND IN DANGER
BRITLAND CALLING: 3. THE FOUR PLAYING CARD SUITS
BRITLAND CALLING: 4. CONCLUSION
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