Shortly upon their arrival in the UK, Ian Allen and Andrew Forrestson find themselves behind bars for charges brought against them by a dead woman. Why are they so reluctant to tell their side of the story?Bored rigid from attempting to enter nearly fourmillion characters of binary alien code by hand, James takes Candice on an exploration of the old lead mine tunnels. They're trapped behind an invisible barrier. In order to bring it down, Sam and Donna have to break James's ...

Death is final. Zombies don't exist. Mindless rotting corpses can't wander around attacking people. Or can they?Current research has revealed, three days after death, stem cells become active again. If the right conditions prevailed, and someone had contracted the immortality virus, perhaps their corpse could be resurrected. But… would their mind still be there?Donna feared her immortality virus could be modified and turned into a killer. When this became a reality, it coul...

We fear pandemics but what if the elixir of eternal life turns out to be a virus that grants you immortality?Book one of this collection tells how three genetic engineers came to develop a cure for death - the Immortality Gene. Of course there's more to immortality than a simple medical mystery. In the story you'll find romance, the mystery of a secret organisation ruling the world, high technology, greed, power struggles, hidden places and murder. It follows the fortunes of a genet...

Although conceived by him, Sam Triplet was no longer the father of Donna's unborn child. The baby she carried now belonged to Jared Thundercloud, a man she hadn't seen for months. When the discovery was made, Donna was just as shocked as everyone else, but it had been genetically proven.On the quest, the alien Dine'é Yá had intervened. They gave Donna a choice. To save her from explaining the change they'd made to her baby, the Dine'é Yá would wipe Sam's memory, and that of everyon...

The world of 1493 was not ready for flying machines. Time-travellers needed to persuade Leonardo da Vinci. He agreed, but we ended up not only helping him to complete one, but then go with him on its first flight.As if that wasn't enough, we also solved two mysteries:• What happened on the Mary Celeste?• Who exactly was Mona Lisa?'Time Flies' is book 4 of the short story series in which the author travels through time as a Time Agency Chronoclasm Organisation (T...

Examples of leader actions and decisions—some humorous, some tragic—that will help guide you whether you are a military officer or a civilian in an office.John Chapman is a longstanding observer and chronicler of leadership events. In Muddy Boots Leadership, he describes 285 military leadership situations and the actions leaders have taken to meet the issue at hand. The leadership lessons learned and relearned by military leaders are applicable to a wide v...

You're not going to believe this short story. It's the tale of how I was infected with timebots. I could die, have them removed and then be restored to life by Alex Pierson (aka Jack the Ripper) or take a trip through time to Maryland in 1785 and rescue a witch. Time travel - here I come.Almost forgot to tell you - My trip was arranged by T.A.C.O. (Time AntiChronoclasm Organisation) and in it you'll learn about B.E.L.L. (no clue what that stands for). The trip lasts three seconds / ...

In 1982 'Castle of Riddles', an adventure game for the BBC model B computer, was published. This retro game was text only but challenging.The new version of this game has been greatly expanded with more puzzles, graphics and sound but still retains the appeal of the original version and is even more challenging.You're probably going to get stuck so here are all the answers including fifty ways to die,

Harland Deville is an unfortunate person in many ways: unfortunate childhood circumstances, an unfortunate accident, a bewildering love life, and unfortunately he suffers from an uncommon type of psychosis. Because of that he struggles with himself in uncommon ways. Like many people, young or old, a battle rages inside his mind and soul. But Harland's battle is decidedly aggrieved and uncommon.

This memoir is not really about research questions or main conclusions. It tells the story of a boy growing up in Plymouth, Devon, getting excited about archaeology after visits to mainland Greece and Crete, trying to get into Greek archaeology and relocating northwards into the Balkans, where he spent a career in prehistoric research. The chapters alternate between museum/university experiences and my major research projects. The experiences of working in that part of the world as the Thi...

There are some things an author is not supposed to do. One of them is to start with a purple prose opening line of "It was a dark and stormy night." Another is to make the subtitle on the cover bigger than the title. In this very short story I set out to make all the author mistakes I could think of just to see if I could use them and still entertain.I suppose I should tell you a bit about the story? Well this is the first story of a series which tells how I became a time traveller....

You won't believe this, but I'm about to tell you a story that will change the course of history. A story about time travel, secret agents, and paradoxes. It's a story that will start with a chance encounter with a time traveler known as Jack the Ripper, and it will end with the founding of TACO, the Time Acency Chronoclasm Organisation, a powerful agency controlling time travel throughout history.The second short story tells how I was coerced into joining TACO as an observer on a m...