Halwende's Legacy
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You can't run from your destiny. Read all three books of the amazing Halwende's Legacy trilogy in one box set. After a failed coup to topple the despotic dictatorship on Eridu, Halwende must hide himself and the secret he doesn't even know he carries. He lives in the backwaters of the empire as a trader until he crashes into a planet that shouldn't exist. The mystery deepens when he stumbles into a civil war all too similar to the one he fled. As he reluctantly agrees to help the rebel Princess Adala, he treads a path to his own redemption from his past mistakes and cowardice. When a trading vessel arrives answering the call of Halwende's distress beacon, he decides to use the opportunity to help the restored Helheim kingdom re-establish contact with the rest of the galaxy. But all is not what it seems with his would-be rescuers who imprison him for the reward on his head. Once Halwende escapes, he embarks on a path of discovery, heartbreak, despair and determination to retake what is rightfully his. Can he restore the empire to a new future? What will it cost him?
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I'm a dreamer...always have been.
I have dreamed of flying to the stars since I was a child, looking up at the Milky Way on a moonless and cloudless winter's night, wondering what's out there.
I started writing in 2016 and now write full time. Ten published books later, I'm still writing strong with many more stories in my head for others to enjoy. My stories revolve around science fiction, primarily space based stories with as strong an element of hard science as I can place into the stories. This means they usually occur in the near future (next one to two hundred years). But I do delve into the fantastic sci fi for stories of intrigue and adventure other than hard science based ones.
Before taking up writing, I undertook chemical engineering in the steel industry for 35 years.
So I now write, drawing on my many experiences in exotic places throughout my working life. These were incredible at times! I also draw on many other experiences. Some are funny and interesting.
Being an avid reader, I read almost anything. It is common for me to read three or four books at the same time on completely differing topics, both fiction and non-fiction. I mainly enjoy reading science fiction and fantasy books, my favorite authors being Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and J.R.R. Tolkien. I also enjoy crime mysteries. Ancient and medieval history in Europe fascinate me and I use extrapolated facts from this history in my stories at times.
Cosmology, general relativity and quantum physics intrigue me. New concepts and understanding continually develop in these fields. This is exciting to me and is the way of the future. Humanity is finally escaping the shackles of Earth and seriously reaching out into space.
I rarely use aliens in my stories as the aliens I encounter in the stories I read are usually humans dressed up as aliens. So why not use humans. I do delve into genetic engineering. That is a realistic scientific development worth exploring in science fiction.
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I live in Wollongong, Australia with my wife and family.
