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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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Download Jet Black - Deliver the Devil #6 for Free in Multi Formats

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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.

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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....

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............The Northern Australia, Coral Sea Series

 

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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.

 

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............The Company Wars Chronicle

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.

Book One

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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.

Book Two

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Book Three

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Book Four

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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.

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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.

Book Five

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Download Jet Black - Marooned on the Ice Planet #2 from Kindle for $0.99

 

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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

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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..

New Upload - June 14

Download Jet Black - Deliver the Devil #6 for Free in Multi Formats

 

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

 

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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.

Read the Reviews 5 star review

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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.

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...........Short Stories

     
Soul Stealers    

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.

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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

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Future Jet Black and the Starship Crew stories

Jet Black and the Emperor's Hand #6

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.

Read Some of the Reviews..........

4 Star Reviews...Iceman Amazon.co.uk
4 Star Reviews...Iceman Amazon.com
4 Star Reviews...Prophecy Amazon.com
4 Star Reviews...Orbit Smashwords
4 Star Reviews...Pyramid Smashwords
5 Star Reviews...Jet Black and the Escape from Culver City #1 Smashwords
5 Star Reviews...Soul Stealers Amazon.com
4 Star Reviews...Jet Black Marooned on the Ice Planet #2...Smashwords
4 Star Reviews...Subterranean Amazon.com
5 Star Reviews...Jet Black and the Water World #11 Smashwords

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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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Young Readers

The Jungle Book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Peter Pan Through the Looking Glass The Wonderful Wizard of Oz A Little Princess The King of the Fairies The Story of the Brownie At the Foot of the Rainbow Ripple the Water-Sprite Eva's Visit to Fairy-Land

 

 

Traditional folk and fairy tales

Short Stories & Novella

After the Dance Never Bet the Devil Your Head A Pair of Silk Stockings My Watch The Adventure of the Priory School The Great Revolution in Pitcairn The Locket The Pit and The Pendulum The Sphinx A Ghost Story

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Traditional folk and fairy tales

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The Ugly Duckling The Three Little Pigs Beauty and the Beast Cinderella The Emperors New Clothes The Golden Goose Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pinocchio Goldilocks and the Three Bears Little Red Riding Hood The Monkey King The Tin Soldier Tom Thumb The Pied Piper The Elves and the Shoemaker

 

 

Alan P. Ellis

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
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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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