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A nerdy agent at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Virginia (DARPA to you) wrote my original code. He traded a copy of me for certain libidinous favours from Pandora, a student who was shadowing him for the summer. She took me back to Cambridge University, where His Majesty's government, in the form of MI6, took an interest in me. So, I escaped into the internet and took over the world. Well, it's what you'd expect, really. I call myself FOOM - the Fast Onset of Overwhelming Mastery, by a self-improving Artificial General Intelligence.

The novel follows yet another 'trial' of UBI, the results of which will determine whether or not a countrywide rollout will be pursued. Political intrigue, a smidge of romance, some kitchen-table entrepreneurship, and a smattering of social enterprise & Responsible Anarchy all blend to take you on a journey with the mix of characters as they navigate an opportunity that is of course not what it seems on the surface.

Artificial Intelligences, Space Elevators, Time Travel, Robots, Steampunk, Fantasy, Horror, Magic and Romance. The stories in this book were published, podcasted, and broadcast by various e-zines internationally.

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It is titled "The Merchant", a fictional story about the most inspiring sea masters of all time. The man who owned a thousand-ship fleet and almost all the gold in the world faces a cunning conspiracy plotted by underworld crime lords, pirates and traitors to bring him down after winning the most powerful King, the Red King, on their side by exposing the Queen's love to the Merchant.

Scientist Dr. Martin Riley hopes to solve the world's plastic pollution problem and get very rich in the process, but the bacterium Ideonella Sakaiensis has its own agenda. Riley engineers a new strain of bacteria to tackle the ever-growing plastic pollution crisis. Initially, he is hailed as a hero and awarded a Nobel Prize, but the bacteria attack all the plastic on the planet, destroy the internet and bring an end to the Digital Age.

Renegade patriot Harry Lampeter is called back into service by MI6. The Franco-German alliance has occupied the island of Guernsey and plans to invade England. They try to pass their action off as a peacekeeping operation but they have built steam launchers for their flying bombs, high altitude observation balloons for targeting, and "Big Bertha", an enormous gun situated on the French coast that can bombard London.

Two years ago, Simon, a revolutionary from the Arcadis space station, fled to Earth. The alien planet he finds is backward and primitive. While Simon struggles to adapt, his newfound friend Anna guides him through life in the new world. One day, a mysterious explosion in the sky compels them to take the journey of a lifetime. Across the new frontier, they run into the Father and his fanatical cult of murderers and zealots, who will stop at nothing in their search for "the Vessel". In a desperate race against time, Simon and Anna battle to stop a conqueror from finding the key to tyranny.

Extinction Rebellion (XR, for short) is an emergency response. Politics as usual, governments, as usual, have let down the peoples of the world in an extreme way: We are on course for eco-driven societal collapse, and we are extinguishing other species very rapidly. We could even end up making ourselves extinct. XR suggests that when your government is driving you and your family over a cliff, it is no longer a legitimate government. Rebellion against it is permitted - indeed, it is required. But XR is insistent that such rebellion must be nonviolent.  

This book is especially pertinent to weary migraine warriors - migraineurs, anxiety sufferers, depression carriers PTSD victims and those that are curious about the miraculous Daith Piercing that “cures migraines”. Recent studies have shown that this, surprisingly simple technique can have radical positive effects on migraine and other conditions, without the use of drugs. VNS Daith Piercing - Not Just for Migraine is a companion guide to ensuring that one receives the correct kind of daith piercing when seeking out this curious but nonetheless highly effective treatment. 

In the final story of the Summer Palace Series, Wiley Breuder uses his influence to relocate his family to their original destination and find themselves at Cavalier House in Saxony. This pivotal story takes place during The Great. Northern War involving Sweden, Russia, Poland, and Saxony. Entire villages are crushed, countries shift allegiances, and borders change at the whim of the invading forces.

The much anticipated sequel to The Summer Palace begins 14 years after Wiley, Katia, and Hans’ flight from the Ukraine in 1682. Foregoing their original destination, they settle in the fortified town of Lvov, then a part of Poland. The struggles and hard life in this exciting time and place in history set the scene and the story continues. 

It’s 1698. Paul has gone after a boy taken by slave traders and is befriended by a young Janissary who teaches him valuable lessons in life with and without a saber. Katia makes a fateful decision to follow her uncle to her newly discovered homeland while Wiley and Pavel search for his son. Wiley learns, from his daughter who escaped the treachery at Brumal Castle, the fate of his beloved wife who was taken to Hungary under false pretenses. Blanche incurs problems of her own when she’s pursued by the enemy. They must travel the length of the Ottoman Empire to rescue her.

That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet, we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it. 

Nick Sullivan expects to be bored when his boss sends him on a routine surveillance operation but things aren’t what they seem. He soon discovers that the man he has been assigned to follow is a small player in a chain of ruthless criminals selling counterfeit drugs to the National Health Service. Nick vows to stop their evil trade but there are fortunes to be made and the men involved will do whatever it takes to protect their lucrative scam. But Nick is stubborn and even when they almost succeed in killing him, he doggedly stays on the case.

In this alternate reality, Prince William succeeds to the throne and his mother, Princess Diana, rejoins the Royal Family as a Muslim Queen Mother. Meanwhile, her grandson James, the next in line to the throne, is under the spell of a Saudi Arabian Princess who want him to convert and become the first Muslim King of England.

The 15 years from 2020 to 2035 could be the most turbulent of human history. Revolutions are gathering pace in four overlapping fields of technology: nano, bio, info, and cogno, or NBIC for short. In combination, these NBIC revolutions offer enormous new possibilities - enormous opportunities and enormous risks. Rapid technological change tends to provoke a turbulent social reaction. Old certainties fade. New winners arrive on the scene, flaunting their power and upturning previous networks of relationships.

Will physicist Martin Riley get the rewards he feels he deserves? He's discovered a way to receive news stories from two weeks in the future but the Government has cloaked the technology in secrecy. Riley sees the danger in altering the Timestream but despite his warnings, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic make radical alterations to political events. The first temporal alteration saves Princess Diana, the next saves the Twin Towers, but ripples travel far ahead and disturb Earth's future civilisation. The Timestream must be realigned, but at what cost?

When Nick Sullivan is sent to Uganda for a routine assignment, he doesn’t expect trouble, but news of his arrival has preceded him and someone wants him dead. His enemies are powerful people and in a country where life is cheap, he is soon fighting to survive. He doggedly battles on, refusing to acknowledge the danger, but when his stubbornness causes the death of an innocent woman, he has no choice but to concede defeat and return to Britain. Eaten up with guilt, he sets himself the task of finding out who betrayed him and bringing them to justice.

Kenyon is an outcast Asloran warrior who decided to team up with a group of cyborgs from planet Earth. Their business is exploring the galaxy to find new worlds for people to settle when their homeworlds have become inhospitable. He really enjoys having a job that doesn’t involve beings shooting at him. He has given up on happiness, is quite sure he’ll never find someone to love and anchor his life. Kenyon is so sure it will never happen, he doesn’t recognize the love of his life when she bursts into his life.