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This is the quite cruddy looking homepage for my current literary works. They vary in style, but mainly occupy the cyberpunk sci-fi camp with a good measure of Zen philosophy thrown into the mix.  NEW RELEASE: Psytopia volume 2
 
'Psytopia: Crimson Harvest' and 'Memento Mori' are light hearted swords n' sorcery epics which are also something else entirely...
Written in a unique 'stanzas n' soundbites' style, these books can be enjoyed by bloggers and texters with short attention spans and those seeking something a bit different.
I don't give a shit about grammatical correctness I'm afaid; I write how I speak, cos that's how people read.
If easily offended by unorthodox grammer... well then you're a bit sad. 'Crimson Harvest' is the self-contained first part, involving a set of sword school students travelling across the Psytopian plates on an adventure which is also an assessment. Whether they come back alive or not will determine their final grade.
Memento Mori is part two, is the goth installment of the series, following on from the kind of indie-hippieish first part 'Crimson Harvest'. It's set in a highly industrialised corner of Psytopia cut off from the rest of the wide, wild world, and where everything is powerered by burning recycled dreams. These are both available in 'mini' (standard) format and 'novel' (larger) size for those who can't read small print.
Part 3 out soon! 
'Ascension' is a dark, twisted goth-cyberpunk journey of personal discovery in a strange, high-tech world.
I'm gradually adding parts of the Compendium series of short stories (episodes) which will eventually comprise 13 volumes.
Click on the links below for more information, and to read samples from the books.
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Psytopia 1: Crimson Harvest: Mini edition
Set in a world with a technological past and an agricultural present, 'Psytopia' is a light hearted look at the 'swords and sorcery' genre from a completely new perspective.
Set out on a journey across the shifting plateaus of the Psytopian arpeggio with a freaky collection of typical genre characters and witness their bizzare and imaginative world.
The twists in 'Psytopia' will most likely break the heroes and their world in two as they start to realise that you can be taught everything you need to know... Then the wide, wild world comes along and tears your preconceptions apart at the seams.
Full of vivid imagery, pop culture nods, sound-bites and written more like a Lonely Planet travel guide than a novel, this first part of the 'Psytopia' trilogy is a vibrant, rhythmic jaunt across the strangest lands imaginable and carves its place atop a sub-genre usually seen only in video games and manga.
This is the MINI size, so it's pocket size! (As long as your pocket is thick...)
Print: $22.33
Download: FREE
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PSYTOPIA: Adagio for Swords #1: Crimson Harvest
'Crimson Harvest' is a unique book of sound-bites and stanzas. Set in a world with a technological past and an agricultural present, 'Psytopia' is a light hearted look at the 'swords and sorcery' genre from a new perspective.
Set out on a journey across the shifting plateaus of the Psytopian arpeggio with a freaky collection of typical genre characters and witness their bizzare and imaginative world.
The twists in 'Psytopia' will most likely break the heroes' world in two as they realise that you can be taught everything you need to know... Then the wide, wild world comes along and tears your preconceptions apart at the seams.
Full of vivid imagery, pop culture nods, quotable dialogue and written more like a Lonely Planet travel guide than a novel, this first part of the 'Psytopia' trilogy is a vibrant, rhythmic jaunt across the strangest lands imaginable and carves its place atop a sub-genre usually seen only in video games and manga. (full size version)
Print: $22.33
Download: FREE
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Psytopia Adagio #2: 'Memento Mori'
Second in the Tridagio series 'Psytopia'.
This one introduces the darker, less developed side of Psytopia, as the twisted inhabitants of the Tapestry, a city on the edge of the world, find themselves engulfed by a freakish storm system which is a lot spookier than it first seems...
Print: $11.16
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Psytopia Adagio #2: 'Memento Mori' (Novel size)
Second volume of the Psytopia Tridagio, this one focuses on the darker, more industrialised edge of the tectonic plated world as the twsited inhabitants of the gothic city the Tapestry are beseiged by the spooky storm system which they can neither live with or without.
Light hearted, written more like a messed up travel guide than a book and packed with sound bites and stanzas, 'Memento Mori' has more than a twist or two in the tail.
Print: $19.22
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Ascension MINI
'Ascension' is a dark, twisted, punky, funky kind of sci-fi.
It's set on a world contained within a huge tower. Hell is at the bottom, Heaven at the top.
Frakture is a humanoid being born limbless who can swap appendages at will. And she was born in Hell so there's no surprise she's on her way to Heaven.
But as she ventures across the weird and wonderful surrealist landscapes of Babel with only her fiery determination to guide her, you way well find yourself asking the same questions of your life as she does of her's.
How much better does your life have to get before you give up pushing yourself and accept what you've got?
NOTE:
This is the 'mini' pocket-sized travel edition! Not for those who like big, meaty print!
Print: $19.41
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Ascension
'Ascension' is a dark, twisted, punky, funky kind of sci-fi.
It's set on a world contained within a huge tower.
Hell is at the bottom, Heaven at the top.
Frakture is a humanoid being born limbless who can swap appendages at will.
And she was born in Hell so there's no surprise she's on her way to Heaven.
But as she ventures across the weird and wonderful surrealist landscapes of Babel with only her fiery determination to guide her, you way well find yourself asking the same questions of your life as she does of her's.
How much better does your life have to get before you give up pushing yourself and accept what you've got?
Print: $17.10
Download: FREE
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The Compendium: Book One
'The Compendium' is a collection of eighteen independent short stories which also form a part of a greater whole.
The stories range in length and scope, but generally occupy the sci fi/supernatural camp.
Book One contains Episode One: 'The Assignment', in which a group of university students are sent to examine some ancient Mayan ruins with a moody poltergeist in tow.
To say 'but all is not what it seems' would be far too obvious, but obviously... it isn't.
What is the Compendium anyway, and what is the event each story is counting down to?
Print: $4.94
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The Compendium: Book Two
Episode 2 of 'The Compendium'- a series of independent short stories which can be read seperately or inter-linked...
Benedict is a scientific genius experimenting in hyperspace theory and quantum mechanics.
Like most geniuses, he’s probably a little crazy, but you have to be a little crazy to get anywhere in this world.
Lucky his fresh faced assistant Hazel is there to keep him grounded.
That’s to keep him grounded in this dimension, because Benedict is planning a trip elsewhere. A trip which will change the face of physics as we know it.
He might discover he gets more than he bargained for…
Print: $3.00
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The Compendium: Book Three
'The Compendium' is a series of short stories or 'episodes' which stand alone but can also be read as part of a bigger whole.
Jyishu is a kindly soul, keen to lift his sister out of her depression.
Jhana isn’t so accommodating- a moody goth on the tail end of a heroin addiction.
She needs to find herself, and how better to do that than to take a long railroad journey across the continent with nothing to disturb you from facing your problems?
But through Jhana’s terrifying dreams and a series of strange occurrences, it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems…
Print: $6.01
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Public Parts
A concept novel about human identity and communication.
This novel was created in 12 hours from the moment the idea was first thought up to the moment it was made available to the public on lulu.com.
And its concept in other ways too...
But that doesn't mean its brilliant!!
Print: $3.00
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Ascension
'Ascension' is a new kind of sci fi.
It's dark, gothy cyberpunk, with a twist or two in the tail.
Set in a tower with Heaven at the top and Hell at the bottom, Frakture is a humanoid creature able to swap limbs at will as she ascends towards the top.
Her bizzare struggles are not dissimilar to those we face in our own lives, the question being when do you give up and settle for what you've got?
Print: $21.99
Download: $8.24
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Psytopia Adagio 2: Memento Mori
Things take a turn for the worst in the second part of the Psytopia trilogy, where we take a look around the twisted urban sprawl of the Tapestry; a place stuck in the mists of time and where nothing is quite what it seems.
Join a raggle taggle bunch of gimps and glums and they attempt to unravel the secrets of their freak little world, or die trying, at least.
Print: $11.16
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