Ultra Heavy
Book 1: Edge of Empire
Published on 17. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
162 pages
978-1-970784-10-7 (ISBN)
Description
After three centuries of war, the oldest Ultra Heavy is reaching the end. His cybernetic body can still regenerate, but the centuries have taken their toll. Soon he will be a living mind trapped inside a failing machine. Refusing to fade into slow decay, he asks the Tsar of Holy Rus' for a final mission from which he will never return. The Tsar graciously grants his request.
A newly terraformed world at the far edge of the empire-Titan, the largest moon of Saturn-has fallen completely silent. The first colony that landed has vanished. No messages. No explanation. Sent alone across the solar system, this aging hero of the empire must discover what happened on Titan and report back to the Throne. If possible. Because on this distant frontier, something has already gone terribly wrong and needs to be set right by any means necessary.
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Person
Tim was born in Drumheller, is an Albertan, a Canadian, a son of a Second World War veteran and a Saskatchewan maiden. He is the second of five children growing up in the hard times of Alberta. He graduated from high school, then university. Helped his Grandpa and Grandma (a blacksmithing women), in the Kirby's Blacksmith and Welding Shop. Then, like many Albertans, he held over sixty some positions, from Winnipeg to Vancouver Island. This includes cooking, road and building construction, farming, ranching, labour, equipment operator, pipe-lining, trucking, etc., started and operated several businesses, now serves as a chaplain. In other words, workin' to live. As an avid outdoors person, he spent time in the bush and high country. (recorded in "Them Roots, Run Deep in Alberta!")
He is married to his wife, and they have three grown sons, daughter-in-laws and now grand-kids tagging along.
His outlook on life is, "There's nothing we can't do, but there's things we shouldn't do!" That all people are equal and capable of being and doing what they want. Right's, right, and wrong's are wrong! And the 'Truth' is paramount and vital for living life.