Kirjahaku

In the 28th century, the human race finds itself embroiled in a pitiless and ferocious life-or-death struggle with an alien race which is resolved to destroy them. The Ramassidors are not only malevolent, they are also highly advanced. There's also something else about them, however. Concealed and obscure, they have an agenda which is higher than mere conquest. Michael Stratford is part of Deltacore, the military force assigned to Interstellar combat. He is a genuine decorated war hero and the captain of the Horizon, but he knows that humanity is losing this fight and he wants answers. As Stratford begins to question the war and the designs of the Ramassidors, he makes enemies who not only lie to him, but who also want him dead. And as he closes in on the truth he reveals something truly shocking. Extinction of the universe is imminent if Stratford fails his task.

Following the struggle between the Ramassidors and the humans of the Deltacore Interstellar Military, which left millions dead, Captain Michael Stratford battled to secure the particle that gave the power of God to Xona, who Stratford eventually killed. But despite her defeat Xona has other ideas, and as she is restored back to her former self she sets out to take the particle once more, to give her the ultimate power she seeks. Traveling back in time to the Earth of 1941, Stratford is determined to prevent his mortal enemy from finding a container that has been discovered by the Nazis in their remote and secret base in Antarctica. Within the container, unbeknown to the Nazis, is the particle. In a chaotic race against time, can Stratford once again save the Universe before the Nazis open the container and Xona becomes too powerful to stop?

It's the 28th century and the alien race known as the U'harans have long since defeated the Mykians and enslaved their people, kidnapping the women for prostitution and keeping their children in concentration camps. The source of the U'harans' power comes from a particle that has made them all but invincible and there seems to be no way of defeating them. Deltacore Captain Michael Stratford, along with former dictator Xona Bari and her daughter Zeniyah, appears to be the last hope for the Mykians but the special powers they possess that allow them to combat the U'harans is slowly being diminished. With each passing day, they not only become less able to resist and fight. They are dying. The only solution is to obtain the particle that gives the U'Harans their power and use it to restore their strength. But there is a problem. The particle is on Earth, in 1953. Now the determined trio must travel back in time and infiltrate the secret base where the particle is stored. If they are to have any chance at all of success they will have to overcome near-impossible odds, save friends and defeat a collection of Earthly enemies who are just as determined to stop them. The race is on. Nothing less than the future of the Galaxy is at stake.

When the Trinidadian novelist, Harold Sonny Ladoo was found dead soon after the publication of his classic novel, No Pain Like This Body, for Christopher Laird, it became an obsession to try to discover the writer behind the work and what had brought about his untimely end. Equal to Mystery – words written by Ladoo – is the record of that pursuit.When, as the editor of a Trinidadian literary journal in the radical years of the early 1970s, Christopher Laird was sent Harold Sonny Ladoo’s novel, No Pain Like This Body (1973) to review, he knew he was looking at something revolutionary in Caribbean fiction. It is a novel that has recently been republished as a Penguin Modern Classic. But the next news Laird heard of Ladoo was that he had returned to Trinidad from Canada and had been found dead – very probably murdered – in the canefields outside his family’s village of McBean. Laird follows in the path of Ladoo to Canada, where he went to make a name for himself as a writer, and tracks him as a student and young married man through conversations with his widow and other family members. He looks in detail at his relationships with two Canadian writers, Dennis Lee and Peter Such, who supported his work, and in Lee’s case published him. Here there is an acute account of their meetings across the line of race, of the mix of generous contact and elusive flight in their relationship. Above all, with access to Ladoo’s unpublished material -- short stories and fragments of the vast body of fiction he announced he was writing -- Laird offers acute analysis of what is there, honest bafflement about just what Ladoo was up to, with a tragic sense of the talent that was lost through his untimely death.