The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law, is now being featured on kickstarter! Please come and support us and get this animated film done. I am offering the first stage in the production process - the making of a trailer to help us raise the funds needed for project completion.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/655904664/the-vast-and-gruesome-clutch-of-our-law
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Kalkion Publishes Short
Kalkion the online short story publisher has just published my story The Rioters Candle. Please go read it...It follows a young man arrested during the Arab Spring uprising. He is put into jail beneath the Presiential Palace, where he is visited by a mysterious stranger.
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Vagabond Unlimited Relaunches
I have just launches a new version of http://www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk, which uses HTML5 instead of flash to keep up with changing web use on phones and tablets. Flash has for a long time been unavailable for use on many hand held devices. I've added some new content including some new Ted on Street cards and some articles, including one on post apocalyptic literature. Please check it out before you go.
Saturday, 6 October 2012
Super Red
Super Red is the follow up to my first book The Vast and
Gruesome Clutch of Our Law. This post apocalyptic novel and romantic sci-fi book, was based on a dream; a very mysterious and
interesting one, that involved dying and being reborn. The dream was recorded
in my dream diary:
162. Passing through the Gates of Heaven and Hell.
I
was due to arrive at a great hall, some way off into the future. I was there
with hoards of people, who gathered there with each other, eating, drinking and
socialising. After some time, I walked across the great hall, whose size was
enormous. The biggest building I have ever seen. Across the hall, were
chambers, equally as big, as any building I have seen, in their own right. As I
passed one chamber the people there were predominantly Chinese, with some of
other nationalities. They were watching huge screen, and on it was a Chinese
epic film, shown in black and white. On the screen it showed a battle scene.
The scene was panoramic; wider and taller than most cinema screens.
As I walked across the chamber
and into an eating hall I sat down with my wife and several others. We spoke
together, and although friendly, for a wife who I had just married she showed
me no affection at all. She tried to explain, but I did not understand our
marriage and why she refused to show me affection. I kissed her hand, and she
smiled, but I felt it was insincere.
I then went with her, as we
walked with others, heading for a third chamber. The inner most chamber, was
just as huge. Inside were seats on rows. Each seat had a reclining back. We
adjusted the seats and waited a couple of minutes as a Chinese waiter served as
tea. It was a delicate tea, served in bone china. As he served the tea to each
of us on a serving table, he dropped a poison into it, and explained what would
happen as we drank and smiled. We then sat back and waited.
Everyone in that room died, and
were reborn. We woke up in another reality and walked, as if nothing had
happened, to meetings, in a red and brown landscape, where the sky was always
clear and the temperature always moderate. Soon afterwards we returned again to
Earthly reality.
We all met up again and had
another meal. I sat next to three other people, as we debated and talked
amongst ourselves. We discussed a certain type of dog that I had access to.
Once we’d finished talking we went into a covered garden, and I went to the
back of the garden, and brought out a dog. It was rare breed. It had been bred
for strength. Bred to kill, with large jaws and long teeth. It looked vicious,
and was large enough for a human adult to sit on. I sat on it and strode round,
its muscles rippling. It had a finely tuned body for speed and strength. The
other looked amazed as I rode the dog, its teeth glistening and its mouth,
running with fluid, drooling, its dark red sunken eyes, looking as if it could
easily tear you to pieces but remaining calm, at all times. A killing machine,
totally loyal to its owner.
My book, Super Red is based on some aspects of the dream
and follows a young couple, who at the end of the Earth’s life are sent by their
local chieftain, to the Great Hall. The Great Hall is there to help people die,
as the death that awaits them is much worse. The Sun is coming to the end of
its life, and it is expanding into a Super Red Giant.
Kiren and Vernon travel to the Great Hall unaware of what
secrets they have for the religious leaders that live at the Hall.
This post apocalyptic novel, is a multi-faith book, drawing on Islamic, Christian,
Jewish and Buddhist eschatological thinking, and is about the resurgence of
faith after a very long period of atheism. The people rediscover religion when
they face this big threat, but many of the rituals and interpretations of faith
have been lost to history. The book follows the couple to a convergence of
faith, as humanity breathes its last breath. Although predominately Christian
in its theological construct, the books attempts to suggest that faith, given
the fullness of time, might come together; especially as many of the great
faiths draw from the same origins.
However, the religion in the book, is secondary to the
science fiction fantasy theme. It isn’t a hard-line Christian book, that is
attempting to convert or explain religious beliefs. It just deals with the
issues, of the afterlife and heaven, and the end of the world and how
eschatological texts describe that end, and describe what might follow. I hope
you enjoy it, should you pick it up.
0954969189
Friday, 28 September 2012
The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law
The world is in the grip of a large catastrophe. Edward
lives in a small community which has barely survived the long cruel winter. But
when a stranger called Dean arrives in town hope returns and he seems to have a
magical effect on them. But Dean is being tracked by a large foreign military
power and the town is in big trouble for giving him shelter.
My book, a post apocalyptic novel, called The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law, seems to be shifting copies, in the few bookshops who have taken it. I have offered the book for sale on the UK Amazon site (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0954969170/), and the US site, using Createspace an Amazon service: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0954969170/
The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law is also available to you at http://www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk, where you can check artwork, satirical cartoons, and my animated film, which is still seeking funding.
"I was genuinely interested in where this tale was
heading and there are some fine ideas in here."
"Its post-apocalypse setting and ambience stimulated
an affectionate nostalgia" – Reviews from the book (2005).
“It had me absolutely
enthralled from the moment I picked it up.”
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| The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law |
Reviews:
"The book is intriguing. I found it overwhelming. I
found myself unwilling to let the book go until I had finished it. I would
definitely pick up the sequel if I were to come across it."
Super Red.
Super Red, which I think is a cool little production, is also available here at the UK Amazon site:
and here in the US, also using Createspace:
When the Sun comes to the end of its life the rich and
privileged use superior technology to leave the earth and go in search of new
planets; their fate unclear. The poor, the uneducated, the sick are left behind
in the dust and certainty of death in the face of an expanding, Super Red Sun.
Nathan and Kiren have been a couple since they were
children. In their small dusty town they struggle to survive. And up against
their large and chaotic families they turn to each other. Feeling unloved and
unwanted they are told by the local Imam that they must go to the Great Hall
and without a choice, they set off into the desert to find the Great Hall and
to find themselves.Super Red, which I think is a cool little production, is also available here at the UK Amazon site:
and here in the US, also using Createspace:
Kindle versions are also available.
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