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Storywriter John Stevenson
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When Jet is asked to work for the militia; transporting one of the Galaxies most dangerous criminals to
a penitentiary, it place’s him and the crew up against ruthless people who are determined to set their passenger free at any cost..
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A forced landing is a pilot’s worst nightmare. The forced landing of an airliner, on the frigid wastes of Antarctica, is
unimaginable. As winter draws its white cloak over the continent, rescue becomes impossible; hope slips away, and the ice entombs its victims.
Years pass, generations come and go: alien contact is made, and the world is subjugated. Now the future depends on one man.
In the green pastures of the English countryside, there is a village that hides a secret; and it’s hungry.
The following story is true; well almost…… there really was a Bushby Hall. I saw it briefly in the late summer of my fourteenth year.
From the very first moment I saw the old building, I knew something special; something that would live with me for the rest of my life
was about to happen, though in reality the hall was ending its life, My brother-in-law was tearing it down.
In all I remember it taking less than three weeks from magnificence to ruin and during that time I was there often, for Bushby Hall had a ghost. One night I think I saw it; all I know for certain was that things that
had no logical explanation happened. Yet even as the building was reduced to no more than a pile of rubble it's greatest secret was only
then revealed. There was a cellar, hidden from view for untold generations....
Bloodthirsty Pirates: World War II: an Island paradise, and a stolen Ruby with mystical powers makes a leisurely sailing
holiday, anything but. Alone and trapped on an island two children must find a way to save their parents before the Shah’s mystic ruby brings
time back into order.
There is a time far, far into the future where all that has happened before is forgotten. A future where all people know of
is a century's long war that raged even before the systems were colonized. Some believe that having the knowledge of how it began can bring it to
an end, but changing the past has consequences that no one could have imagined.
The future can never escape from the past no more than situations can remain the same. Such too can be said of each
and every person, but you and I are not always who we seem to be, even to ourselves let alone to a stranger. In some the secrets are even
deeper, so deep that even they are unaware of their place or of the course that fate has laid out before them.
There comes a time when the last great war is almost forgotten: a time when people grow and make what they need for the
simple lives they live. It is also a time of oppression; when overlords are suspicious of the people, for now is the time foretold. …in the
end devastation will be faced. Men will weep. Women will perish. Families will be orphaned. Ruin will reign. Hope will be gone. Death will give
forth life. Out of the sun good will face evil in the unwinnable, final battle. Evil will be ripped apart. Good will be cast into pieces. The
prophecy will come to pass.
We cannot choose our relatives; but accept who they are. We choose our friends, but often find they are not the people
who we believed them to be. We work with our associates, but know little of their thoughts. We accept a superior’s choice, while preferring
our own. Life is defined by choices that we make; every moment of every day, but of all our choices the wisest among us know that we choose
our enemies very carefully.
Imagination is a wonderful thing: it takes us to places where we
will never go; places where fantasy comes alive: places where we can live
out our dreams, and maybe places from where we never want to return. Could
an event, daydreamed and fantasised for many, many years actually happen,
and put us somewhere where our fantasy becomes our prison.
Disillusionment can be a great motivator, and when the only way out
is up Jet learns that friends can be found in the most unlikely of places:
that a courier service is much more than delivering parcels and that diamonds
are everyone's best friends.
So what is Jet to do? To save his and the lives of the crew he has
committed theft on a grand scale and made a ruthless enemy. Maybe find a
safe hideout, but he can't stay hidden for ever when injustice is wreaked
on a helpless society. Then he must risk the Silver Flyer, and give his
foe the opportunity to eliminate all the evidence; including him.
Jet and the crew find a 3000k metal sphere in deep space. Why has
it apparently been abandoned: why is it full of a single element; and what
is it for? It's up to jet to solve the puzzle, and escape in time; if he
can.
A crashed spaceship; a dark and dangerous alien forest, filled with
creatures out of nightmares: and all Jet and the crew have to do is find
the hidden cargo, and get off the planet alive.
As if landing on a planet bathed in deadly cosmic radiation wasn’t enough, someone's out to kill Jet and the crew;
and they want to do it in the most cruel and unusual way they can.
When Jet is asked to work for the militia; transporting one of the Galaxies most dangerous
criminals to a penitentiary, it place’s him and the crew up against ruthless people who are determined to set their passenger
free at any cost..
A distress call from an isolated outpost, on a planet with carnivorous
ants the size of bullocks, that can spit acid. A place to avoid unless your
Jet Black
A city populated only by women; sounds like the place Jet Black would
feel right at home, but a lesbos utopia it isn’t when Mermen enslave
the population; you've lost half the crew, and your branded a traitor.
There are many options to end the World, but it’s always someone;
someplace far away who will. Someone who we as individuals can't control;
it will be these distant people who will set the stage for Armageddon. In
our powerlessness situation the greatest fear is that it will be us who
are the cannon fodder or victims: but suppose it wasn’t; but instead
that each one of us was given a choice in our own destruction; if each one
of us inadvertently, and individually set the stage for total World annihilation.
What would Halloween parties be without spirits and ghosts…. and old houses; but be sure, be very sure that there’s nothing
there: living or dead, before you accept the invitation to step through the door.
Space Tourism, the destination to go for those who have been everywhere: but not the place you want to be, when things go wrong.
Orbit is an idea for a novel but with the passing of Apophis it seems an appropriate time to rush out a teaser in short story form. Novel to be uploaded at future date
A mummified hand twelve millienia old: a sacred symbol to some; a symbol
of power to others. To the greedy a source of wealth, and to his enemies
it could be Jets life.
Jet Black and the Swamp Monster #12
Jet's met them before, but this time the Swamp Monster is out
to destroy the entire planet..
Future Company Wars Chronicle Books
Rhea
There was much more to Rhea than Alexi had ever imagined; and
more than he could ever have believed.
Time Space and Mysticism - Book 6 of the Company Wars Chronicle
In all our lives there come times when we must face our past. Sometimes
we fear what we may see; sometimes we welcomely revisit; but almost always
the experience has changed. What were once happy memories are never quite
as enjoyable: occasionally a bad experience can be understood, and its demons
swept aside. Whatever of our emotions are stirred we are never the same;
something either pleasurable or avoided has been taken from us.
Future Novels
Orbit - Novel length
Space Tourism, the ultimate destination for those who have been everywhere:
but not the place you want to be, when things go wrong.
Iceman -2- Vengeance
Sometimes Victory is not enough.
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John is not an author: an author can be many things, and not always a teller of tales.
John is not a writer: writers often believe that words and form are more important than narrative, but life rarely follows a set of rules.
What John is, is a storyteller; the most important thing to him is the story, and how make-believe can take the reader with him on a shared fantasy.
John is also a dreamer. When he was a young and shy teenager he dreamed of meeting a special girl. He dreamt of one day of
watching his children and grandchildren learn, play and grow. When he lived in an industrial city he dreamed of living in the
Rainforest, and he dreamt of leaving the English midlands to live close to the Coral Sea. He dreamt of exploring the World;
seeing strange places, meeting different people and experiencing other cultures. John is a dreamer, and he knows that dreams
are visions of a future waiting to happen; but even when his dreams have become reality he can't stop dreaming, and these books
venture into the corners of his imagination: or maybe his nightmares; that maybe one day could actually happen.
I seem to work better in chaos and often have several
stories; in various stages of completion at any one time. Of these stories
there is always one that prioritises itself in my mind, and the characters
and situations force me to that narrative; until another story manages to
take over. If you have any questions about any of the things I have or am
writing, or if you just want to make contact email john@australianstorwriter.com
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In the Company Wars Chronicles Alan P. Ellis is portrayed as an arrogant and self-important writer who crossed time and
space to become to become part of the story himself.
Alan was intended to remain a briefly encountered character, But there is also a side of me that sympathises with Alan so I have given him
the to showcase more of his stories.
Jet Black
and the
Starship Crew
Alan P. Ellis is given author credit for a series of books about Jet Black. The idea was to depict Jet as a kind of Flash Gordon
or Buck Rogers: the over the top kind of person who gets into fanciful and implausible situations.
Jet was supposed to be no more than an footnote to Alan P. Ellis, but as anyone who writes will know; characters sometimes refuse to act the way
we intended them to, and it occurred to me long after I had introduced Alan that by making Jet into a far-fetched character gave me the opportunity to
use a few 'what if' situations I had at the back of my mind without taking the stories too seriously.
Alan P. Ellis created Jet in homage to the writers of Sci-Fi during the early years on the twentieth century. This was the time of new and
unbelievably exciting possibilities that may seem quaint today, but at the time were ventures really into the true unknown. Comic strip cartoon
characters like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers were the forerunners to the Luke Skywalkers and James T. Kirks of this twenty-first century.
I offer Jet as tribute to the wonderful pioneering hero's and adventures, that have made Sci-Fi the spectacular experience it is today.
Jet may have started as a joke, but it seems Alan has had the last laugh.
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