Alan Atkinson has worked for the ABC for more than 20 years and is currently Day Editor in the Adelaide ABC newsroom. He has also worked for newspapers in Australia and overseas, including the Sydney Morning Herald and the Adelaide Advertiser, the London Guardian and the Scotsman in Edinburgh. He is married with two children - his family was with him in Bali on holiday when he was woken with news of the bombing. He was one of the first Western journalists on the scene. His radio and tV bro...

A life can change in a second. ‘The Innocent and the Beautiful’ is a deeply moving true story of love and tragedy, of injustice and the courage to endure. In 1981 Alan Atkinson took his perfect family on holiday to Florida. As night fell in the Everglades another driver, drink in hand, reversed directly in front of the family’s rental car… and in an instant Alan lost his beautiful wife and three wonderful children. Beginning in the early 1960s, ‘The Innocent and the Beautiful’ tells of Ala...

Jericho Hansen has succeeded at his goal of becoming a member of America's most prestigious superhero team, Force Majeure. He's thrown in at the deep end almost immediately, when he has to investigate the brutal murder of a conspiracy theorist whose sights were set on Force Majeure itself. The investigation yields more questions than answers, but eventually those questions are answered, at least in part, by a not-so-chance meeting with an old acquaintance. More answers arrive in shocking f...

Utopia City.Rebuilt from the ashes of America's most horrific terror attack and transformed into a paragon of technological advancement, this city stands as a beacon of possibility where almost anything can happen.Jericho Hansen certainly hopes so; as a gay superhero in the deep South, his ambition is to achieve lifelong recognition by joining Force Majeure, America's best-known superhero team. But to do that, he must first travel to Utopia and learn the hard way if he's go...

This book is a collection of four science fiction stories, set in different universes but with a common theme throughout; specifically, the fact that teamwork gets a lot more done than trying to go it alone.The first story, Martian Walker, is a relatively hard sci-fi look at a transhuman teenage girl on Mars and what happens when her world is shattered.Secondly, we have Bug Eyes, the story of a hapless tourist and amateur photographer who's caught up in a civil war on an al...

This book is a collection of four science fiction stories, each unrelated to the others, but all focusing around the need to rely on one another to beat the odds and win the day. They range from a relatively hard sci-fi look at transhumanism on Mars, to a hapless human tourist caught in an alien civil war, to an alien patrol vessel seeking to save Earth from being wiped out, to a human soldier looking to go behind enemy lines on an alien planet for a very good reason.

Jericho Hansen has succeeded at his goal of becoming a member of America's most prestigious superhero team, Force Majeure. He's thrown in at the deep end almost immediately, when he has to investigate the brutal murder of a conspiracy theorist whose sights were set on Force Majeure itself. The investigation yields more questions than answers, but eventually those questions are answered, at least in part, by a not-so-chance meeting with an old acquaintance. More answers arrive in shocking f...

As a gay superhero in the deep South, Jericho Hansen wants to go professional, but knows he doesn't have the public awareness to do this in Savannah, Georgia. So when his application to join Force Majeure (America's most prestigious superhero team) is answered with an invitation to an interview, it seems his dreams have come true.But this is only the beginning. It's bad enough that his boyfriend doesn't want him to go, but once he gets to Utopia City (an ultra-tech metropolis in th...

Utopia City.Rebuilt from the ashes of America's most horrific terror attack and transformed into a paragon of technological advancement, this city stands as a beacon of possibility where almost anything can happen.Jericho Hansen certainly hopes so; as a gay superhero in the deep South, his ambition is to achieve lifelong recognition by joining Force Majeure, America's best-known superhero team. But to do that, he must first travel to Utopia and learn the hard way if he's go...

Jericho Hansen has managed to gain membership in America's most prestigious superhero team; Force Majeure. However, things aren't about to get any easier for him, between babysitting a difficult member of the team and investigating the murder of a conspiracy theorist who was trying to get dirt on Force Majeure itself.Little things gradually snowball until the full shape of the looming crisis begins to manifest. An attack on his life forces him to flee the city. Wounded and unsure w...

Increase your awareness about the forgotten art of breathing as researched, practiced and written by our Eastern brothers. Inside you will find how our Western society has perhaps forgotten the proper way to breath, hence leaving us more susceptible to disease and poor health. This book explains in layman's terms what happens inside our bodies when we inhale and then exhale. And the effects improper breathing has on both our internal and external extremities. It describes nature's proximit...

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.The book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. It argues that social scient...