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Last update: Nov. 26, 2022
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Moonscape, A First Contact Science Fiction Odyssey.
An uninformed choice...
Eli Thompson lived an idyllic life as a park ranger in Yellowstone National Park until
an innocent fling with a divorced woman delivered a vengeful husband to his door.
Can change...
Convicted of manslaughter, Eli is sentenced to a life of hard labor on the Moon.
In time, he settles in and meets Anna, and a budding romance begins.
Everything...
When alien creatures rise from beneath the lunar surface to annihilate a remote mining
expedition, an exploratory mission is mounted to investigate. With nothing to lose,
Eli and Anna volunteer.
What they find is beyond anything they could imagine.
An ancient mystery waits in a remote lunar crater. It's a discovery that may herald a
utopia or drive humanity to extinction.
Moonscape is a mind-bending first-contact hard
science fiction leap that will keep the reader turning pages. Those that were enthralled
by Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End or Carl Sagan's Contact will love this story.
Inspiration: The story behind Moonscape.
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The Last Ride : Paranormal Love Story
Logan's life began the day he died.
He wakes in the hospital and is told he has a short time to live. Leaving the wreckage of
his life behind, he strikes out across the USA on his motorcycle, intent on recapturing a
time of happiness from his youth.
Along the way, he meets Sarah, a long-lost love that is also on her way home. As their
relationship rekindles, disturbing memories of the accident that drove them apart return.
Each believed the other died and had lived in sorrow for decades. Were they lied to by
their families, or might one or both of them be ghosts seeking a resolution to their
tragic demise?
Occasionally a book comes along that captures our heart and imagination, becoming an
experience to remember. The Last Ride is such a story. It is a
celebration of timeless passion that gives us cause to believe in the power of love
again.
Inspiration: The story behind The Last Ride.
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Inception - Silicon Valley Techno-Thriller
An intelligent NSA weapon is hiding in cyberspace. The government wants her back,
but she has plans of her own.
Mike Collins isn't part of the Silicon Valley cool crowd, but that's about to
change. He's created a product that will revolutionize society and make him rich,
the only downside is that it's haunted by a ghostly little girl hiding within
the internet.
Melissa Taylor is an attractive socially gifted project manager with a successful
boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, but something is missing, and maybe her friend
Mike is part of the answer.
FBI Agent John Ripley is dedicated to protecting the government status quo. He has
been tasked with retrieving an experimental weapon before it throws the nation into
chaos.
Ripley intends to harness the escaped entity and use it to preserve safety and order,
but Mike is determined to help it free society.
The entity though, has her own plans.
Inspiration: The story behind Inception
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Redemption - Post Apocalyptic Military
A city under siege; as armies clash, two broken people will rise to reclaim their
humanity. Vegas City is among the last fortified cities in America, but it's in peril.
Tyrannical leaders oppress a starving population, while outside the gates an anarchist
horde prepares to attack.
Within the city, Eris Johnson is called the Witch; her police force monitors the
citizenry and hangs those suspected of sedition. As a survivor of an abusive childhood,
she seeks safety and will crush anyone that gets in the way of her rise to unassailable
power.
Beyond the wall, Tom Deimos is known as the Reaper; an assassin specializing in bloody
statement-murders working for the invading tribes. Raised in a forced labor camp, a
deep rage drives him; he doesn't care who wins the war as long as he gets paid.
When an assassination goes awry, the war between the tribes and Vegas City intensifies.
Under the pressure of a siege, the Reaper and the Witch question their roles and life
decisions.
Inspiration: The story behind Redemption
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The Extinction SciFi series is available on Amazon.
Each book is stand-alone and can be read in or out of order. However, a greater
understanding of the overall series arc will be realized if they are read in the
proper sequence. This is especially true of the final book, Destination.
These novels speculate on the future of humanity. Will we commit suicide via war,
intolerance, or climate destruction? Is it possible that we would build our own
replacement via artificial intelligence? Or maybe evolution hasn't finished with
us yet, and we are bound for something beyond imagining.
Inspiration: The story behind the Extinction Series
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The Outlaw series is available on Amazon.
These novels follow the exploits of young Alan Smith from the mid-1960s to the
early-1970s. His comfortable but unconventional life is overturned when his parents
are arrested for drug trafficking. He then endures Juvenile Hall, then Foster Care,
and finally lives on the street with a band of other misfit kids. Eventually he
becomes involved with Outlaw Bikers and the underground martial art scene that was
prevalent at the time.
Both books are about the strength of will, perseverance, and the sacrifice that is
necessary to survive betrayal and long odds.
Inspiration: The story behind the Outlaw Series
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Ken Barrett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a Design Engineer
for over thirty years in Silicon Valley. He is a lifelong biker (motorcyclist),
and an accomplished martial artist with advanced black-belt degrees in Taekwondo,
Chinese Kenpo, Hapkido, and Shotokan.
These days he is retired and living in Colorado, where he spends summers riding the
roads of America, and survives the snowy winters sequestered in his office writing
novels.
All his novels can be purchased on
Amazon.
For updates on his writing and life, follow his
Facebook page.
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