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Thylacine is a speculative fiction, crime mystery novel set 30 years in the future. By this time, advanced science and bio-technology have enabled the once extinct Thylacine (commonly known as 'Tasmanian Tiger') to be restored to life in the laboratory.Following this landmark achievement, a research installation has been set up in Tasmania to breed and restore thylacines to their original habitat. Without warning, the entire installation has become the subject of a mysterious raid under the noses of unsuspecting hosts. Kaz Ingham and Stewart Richardson, known to readers from Rodney's novel "Covert State", experienced detectives in solving high level crimes, have been called out of retirement to solve this perplexing mystery.The standout feature of the raid is its boldness, fooling the farm's hosts into thinking the removal of the installation had been authorised. Delving into the obscure motivations behind the crime proves crucial to solving the mystery.

Covert State is set in the near future and reflects a changing world of self-drive cars, maglev city connections and the hint of alien technology, a closely guarded secret shared between Indonesia and Australia.It is a new edition of a previous publication which was titled End State. It is the earliest volume chronologically in The Covert Trilogy, followed by Covert Messages and Covert Citadel. The central theme of the novel, the discovery of a the body of a missing high profile politician Kevin Rowe sets a scene for an unusual and complex inquiry spanning two continents. Police procedural work remains be-devilled by sexist attitudes and embedded conservatism throughout Australia and creates a significant obstacle to the successful solving of this murder mystery. A strong willed and ambitious public servant, Kaz Ingham, has been assigned in the role to lead the inquiry and must overcome police prejudice and threats to her life by an unknown perpetrator who sets a thrilling context to the narrative and a nail biting conclusion to the story.

Agent Sam (Samantha) Mitchell has exploded an alien stronghold, deep in Outback Australia. The reprisals have killed her husband and all her associates. Sam can either give up or try to save Earth's entire human population from conversion to andronic slaves.Sam's quest to save Earth from alien invasion is aided by cryptic advice from a cosmic intelligence network, however there is another competing network.Sam's boundless resourcefulness brings together an unusual resistance team of blacksmiths, retired academic, security guard and managing director of a former cutting-edge tech company. Despite winning many skirmishes, Sam's forces face defeat. Their only chance of survival is to drive their campaign into the aliens' covert stronghold. But the last time this was attempted it ended in disaster. Will they make it out alive this time?Covert Citadel is the second of a series of novels set in near future outback Australia, where pandemic contagion has wiped out 80% of the population and wrecked the economy. If you like a heady mix of alien invasion, human courage and fledgling romance confronting an alien precipice, then you won't put down Rodney Jensen's fast-paced sci-fi page turner.

This original collection of short stories references original/classic themes and explores the added dimensions of speculative fiction.The 'Little Mermaid' introduces us to 'Koo-arsh'-an alien human-like inhabitant of an immense lake on an exo-planet. The 'Princess and the Pea' becomes a young woman afflicted by a strange intolerance to pea-soup. The 'President's New Clothes' reveals a future President Chester Trump wearing the image of clothing projected onto his body and caught out with unforeseen consequences.There can be little doubt that the foundation sources for these new tales share a timeless quality, having endured over the generations since the early 19th Century. Modern readers need do little to fill in gaps and use their imagination to make this anthology relevant to their own experiences.Nine of the re-imagined stories in this anthology are inspired by the works of Hans Christian Andersen and one by the Brothers Grimm. Many of the original stories are well known and some have been adapted to feature films, television, comics and other media. Their abiding popularity is strongly related to the human emotions, foibles and failings that are common to all modern human cultures.

Agents Sam (Samantha) Mitchell and Byron Lowe have graduated from a US-based UFO disinformation bureau. They must assess whether the sightings and plans of an alien intelligence network in the Australian Outback are in humanity's best interests.The two quickly discover that they are at loggerheads in running the mission. Sam, agent in charge, must deal with her partner's arrogance and unfamiliarity with the territory. Hampered by mounting global pandemic, they meet an unlikely pair-retired airline pilot Sens and an activist indigenous woman Meg, who've been associated with several ET sightings. It is only when Sens' pet dog Marshall is reported to have accomplished seemingly impossible feats, that Sam and Byron find the key to direct contact with the aliens.'Covert Messages' is the first volume of the 'Covert Trilogy', a series dealing with extra-terrestrial contact and conflict, in an era of mounting climate change and global pandemic. If you enjoyed '2001 A Space Odyssey' by Arthur C Clarke, and more recent novels on the theme of AI evolution and ultimate supremacy, then you'll love this fast-paced alien mystery set in the backdrop of Australia's remote landscape.Don't forget to watch out for the two other novels in the trilogy 'Covert State' and 'Covert Citadel'. Check my website for details: https: //rodneyjensenbooks.com/