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The UK population has been ravaged. Nate must support his family, and Ruby is looking for somewhere to call home. And then tragedy strikes upon tragedy."The ground was a carpet of flesh and bones; thirty - or even twenty - feet away, it became almost impossible to distinguish body from body, body part from body part. Death's great road roller had been this way and slain everything in its path. Yet there were shimmers of movement, hands that answered classroom questions and arms that swam against a tide of innards where coils of intestines held them back. Faces without jaws; half-faces, eyeless faces, skinless faces; faces a mother would no longer recognise. Jagged and sharp were the protruding cheekbones and half-hanging bridges of noses. The mass was whole. It squirmed with life - the longer they looked, the sicker they felt. And yet it was impossible not to stare in awe; this beach of flesh that represented the humanity of now: nurses and doctors, labourers and homeless, the aged and the young; all just threads in this tapestry."

Hereafter is a collection of stories written over the last decade. Featuring the leading title novella: Hereafter tells the story of how the boys from The Virgin Suicides grew into men unable to shake the suicides of the Lisbon girls from their subconscious, and their subsequent failings. The other short stories feature a family dealing with life on the Frontier, a man who can't resist the urge to strip to his birthday suit any longer, a Big Brother who is no longer in control, a scientist who ties himself up in time, and a couple who allow possessions to own them. Take the journey through an eclectic array of short stories designed to make you think and wonder.

The sun-scorched tundra shimmers, and blood drips between the cracks.Life on the plains is tough, dangerous, and just plain boring. Elissa dreams of breaking the monotony and winning the Liberty Trials; a hoverbike race around the perimeter of the plains with entry to Neon City at stake. Her town sits in the shadow of the enormous blister of Neon's dome, within reach and yet forbidden. If she could only win... everything would change.If only the stranger hadn't appeared. If only she could get Quintessa, one of the three Queens, off her back. If only the murderous Rohen could get exactly what he deserved. So many questions. So many variants. When had life stopped being so boring?A sci-fi dystopian adventure in an inhospitable landscape, Plains of Ion is the second book in an epic series that will explore Man's technological and innate potential, and the search for hope when all looks bleak.Praise for the Neon series: "Neon Sands is sci-fi with conviction, and that conviction displays most evidently in setting. A world built of glorious and alienating sands, both a marvel and irritant. Chocka with filmic interludes, glowing horizons, red dusty skies. This novel quietly won me over.""It has great tension and some wonderful world building details which hook you in to the claustrophobic existence of the characters.""The tension really is well maintained throughout and the sense of mystery, high-stakes and justified paranoia that the characters experience is excellently portrayed."Neon Sands trilogy 2/3Neon series 2/9

Far beneath the city's depths burns far more than the fuel that feeds it.Stuck in the same dead-end job as his father, Rylan drinks himself into oblivion most nights. Better than the oblivion of the Link, everyone around him a slave to virtual reality. At least that's what he tells himself. His ex, Clarisse, has found herself a new lover, someone with more than a passing interest in him. They have a job for him, and it involves explosives.Best just to drink this one off. Wait it out, until everyone has regained their senses. That's the trouble though; everyone acts like robots and he feels like the only one with any sense. Any emotion. Emotion that triggers violence when a new friend exposes the wound inside his heart.A sci-fi dystopian adventure beneath the hyper-tech city of Neon, Flames of Apathy is the third book in an epic series that will explore Man's technological and innate potential, and the search for hope when all looks bleak.Praise for the Neon series: "Neon Sands is sci-fi with conviction, and that conviction displays most evidently in setting. A world built of glorious and alienating sands, both a marvel and irritant. Chocka with filmic interludes, glowing horizons, red dusty skies. This novel quietly won me over.""It has great tension and some wonderful world building details which hook you in to the claustrophobic existence of the characters.""The tension really is well maintained throughout and the sense of mystery, high-stakes and justified paranoia that the characters experience is excellently portrayed."Neon Sands trilogy 3/3Neon series 3/9

The stars brought life to the planet, and the stars destroyed it.It was ash on fingertips, and vast. Stepping upon it gave the impression that it had come not from below, buffed by millions of years of wind slicing against rock, but rather from above; that perhaps it had drifted down and settled here.This is the post-apocalyptic sandscape that Calix and Annora must navigate - when they're old enough to join the scavenger crews outside of the domes, that is.They've spent their entire lives within Sanctum, the domed town that protects them from the dangerous sands that storm against the curved wall. But they are orphans, with questions about their heritage. With a childhood that prepares them to become scavengers. With a father figure in Kirillion who has an agenda all of his own - just what are they searching for when the scavenger crews depart? All grown up, they join Walker's crew, scouring the sand in giant Crawlers, ready to dig. When an accident unlocks childhood memories and murder, questions arise within the crew about where their allegiances lie, and what their true purpose is. And then their search hits the big time.A sci-fi dystopian adventure in an inhospitable landscape, Neon Sands is the opening book in an epic series that will explore Man's technological and innate potential, and the search for hope when all looks bleak.Praise for the Neon series: "Neon Sands is sci-fi with conviction, and that conviction displays most evidently in setting. A world built of glorious and alienating sands, both a marvel and irritant. Chocka with filmic interludes, glowing horizons, red dusty skies. This novel quietly won me over.""It has great tension and some wonderful world building details which hook you in to the claustrophobic existence of the characters.""The tension really is well maintained throughout and the sense of mystery, high-stakes and justified paranoia that the characters experience is excellently portrayed."Neon Sands trilogy 1/3Neon series 1/9