These are mostly story lines that came to mind for Vanda and Tom Denton whilst re-reading their novels. Always with more ideas than time for fiction-writing, Tom and Vanda developed the ideas into short stories, whilst taking care to create no spoilers for the novels. In these stories you will find a variety of thought-provoking science- , speculative- , and eco- fiction, ranging through dystopian settings, disaster survival, bio-engineering, subjugation and interdimensional travel. There ...

In this the third of the Guy Edrich trilogy Guy painstakingly develops an economic model in the area he calls home, to be replicated across the world eventually. His initial aim is to undermine the cabal put in place by Autarkhos, to rule over the United Kingdom. In time Guy’s scheme will replace cabals and dictators that Autarkhos empowered throughout the world. During that complex process, the people of earth gradually become aware of a fresh set of aliens rapidly multiplying in this rea...

A tragic incident filmed for viewing on social media exposes the truth of post-takoloshe suffering in the human world. The wealthy were unharmed by that alien invasion and are now taking advantage of the misery left in the wake of it. Attacks by vicious aberrant creatures further highlight the dangers of hunger, homelessness, fear, despair and confusion, plaguing the survivors. Guy Edrich, floundering in a maelstrom of expanding psychic faculties, is moved to restore a once familiar lifest...

He is a magnificent Emperor, a stupendous hero and a technical genius, and he is surfing on the crest of victory breaking on the ocean of freedom. On their return to Earth, Pakow finds himself presiding over two new Emperors and vast battalions of displayed Guards, all of whom he needs for the construction of his Planetary Defence System. But these are powerful beings with ambitions of their own. When he discovers that one of the Emperors has chosen to emulate the beasts with a view to tra...

This is the story of one man’s fight against the evils of product placements. Hugh Brent is a man at the end of his tether. When the boss fires him just before Christmas his life changes. His son needs him but Hugh gets drawn into the dark underworld of sneaky advertising and so an intriguing story begins. ...you will love it or hate it!

Following Meltdown is presented in a multiple narrative style. It features a dystopian atmosphere in the wake of global pandemics including one started by the fad of keeping Congo rats for pets. Psychological aspects include violent reactions to abuse. The vet, Gabriel Harrison, who has been conscripted into teaching in his local High School, finally decides to opt out of a society growing in violence in defiance of stringent laws and constant surveillance. In spite of his reluctance to he...

The glorious Emperor, ex-slave to the Vinctalin, could prove to be their one enemy capable of destroying them. And he does not think small. Believing he has the means to save humanity, to say nothing of wreaking vengeance on his evil tormentors, Pakow Lam Fellen leads an attack on the Vinctalin Home World. Only the raving, traumatised psychiatrist can see the flaw in his plan, because only he has come to understand the nature of the beasts. The retaliatory strike on the Vinctalin increases...

For the first time ever Pakow sacrifices prudence in favour of the fervour of a quest. And two entire worlds pay the price. One is utterly destroyed while the other is saved by a spectacular long-shot scheme put into action by one man who no longer follows the old rules.

It is not by accident or inefficiency that there always are a number of survivors of a Vinctalin harvest. And it is not only the Vinctalin who can make use of them. Saved by Mettle, the remaining humans of the world are being gathered into a secure haven, but for what real purpose? Questions and resentment abound as the increasing population is forced to aid in the never-ending fight against the Vinctalin. But it is only at the release of the magnificent alien Emperor that Jonathan’s suspi...

Eighteen months ago Earth was thriving. Now it is reduced to a deserted wilderness containing one oasis of frenetic activity: the town in England newly named Foundation. Earth’s valiant hero, Benjamin Stanzini, has sacrificed his all and lived long enough to see the survivors safe. At last he can let go, but while he’s in free-fall Earth’s leaders come to realise that their saviours are not all they claim to be. The magnificent Emperor, one-time slave to the Vinctalin, joins forces with th...

DCZ, written in a multiple narrative style is a work of speculative eco-fiction featuring a London setting, released zoo animals, global control and a mysterious, powerful organisation. Gaia can and will solve the problem of climate change as opposed to living in the ensuing disaster. And humans are not very important in the scheme of things. They will, like all else, be accounted for in the calculations as a part of a global eco-system. This is a story of reversing and preventing the prob...

Having fought off many Vinctalin attacks, vanquished them in their own domains, ousted the Veekerens from fraudulent power, and constructed a full and comprehensive Planetary Defence System, the United Citizens of Earth are ready to make plans for the future. They are barely into devising their outline manifestos ready for the very first post-invasion elections, when disaster strikes. Astonishing revelations reveal one species of beings as more alien to Earth Humans than the grey beasts, w...