This tale began many years ago. As an avid devourer of the genre, I felt that I could contribute somewhat to that great body of work. The centre of the tale is the design, creation and implementation of a star-ship drive - the fabulous and ill-defined FTL. I have created a believable system that develops in three stages over the course of the book, and I have to thank Bruce Cathie, author of Harmonic 33 and Harmonic 695, for his permission...

Twelve thousand years ago, the fabled island of Aztlan, in a cataclysmic event, disappeared beneath the sea, taking with it all the island's mysteries, which were lost forever. Or were they?Bloodlines lived on, passed on through Aztlan's survivors. These bloodlines included powerful priests and priestesses, who controlled almost mythical powers through the magic of Greater and Lesser crystals. In modern day England, 16-year-old Jonathon Goode and his cousin, Elizabeth Waterhouse, a...

Imagine a world where history and nature took a slightly different path ... Harold won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the DNA spiral is left-handed, dragons are real, werewolves can get a pension, electricity doesn't work ... and magic does.England is a twenty-first century world of steam buggies and airships, a world in which magic is the science that binds the fabric of society. This science could offer a great future for its students, including sixteen-year-old Garreth Aldredge...

Beneath the Sphynx lies a secret library. An incredibly ancient, secret, library. Here the remnant memory of the creators of humankind is locked into an artificial intelligence matrix that had whiled away the aeons, waiting for its creation to discover it. For it had a warning to give - humanity is in peril. The last act of a vast war of rebellion in the heavens between the creators of humankind had to be fought and won. The battle between good and evil had to be resolved. Here was the las...

Twelve thousand years ago, the fabled island of Aztlan, in a cataclysmic event, disappeared beneath the sea, taking with it all the island’s mysteries, which were lost forever. Or were they?Bloodlines lived on, passed on through Aztlan’s survivors. These bloodlines included powerful priests and priestesses, who controlled almost mythical powers through the magic of Greater and Lesser crystals.In modern day England, 16-year-old Jonathon Goode and his cousin, Elizabeth Waterhouse, are told b...