Fiction

 

General Olomo, on the face of it a tinpot West African dictator, squares up against the most powerful military on earth.

Provoked by Olomo’s outrages against a US medical team vaccinating children in West Africa, the US President sends in the crushing might of a Supercarrier Battle Group.

The outcome seems like a foregone conclusion but then the trap closes.

Joey Beck, a federal agent and the only one who does not underestimate Olomo, faces a terrible choice and must lose everything to right a terrible wrong.

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The Heretic     Buy Kindle edition for £2.99 here or for $3.96 here

Dan Erlichmann, the son of a psychopath, is a man brutalised and alienated by his upbringing and by his experiences as an MI6 operative in Chile in the ‘70s. After his mission there fails, and the woman he loves is killed by military torturers, the traumatised Erlichmann is reassigned to ‘turning’ Soviet Cold War scientists. Incidents in Hawaii and Prague produce a vendetta lasting decades between him and Lev Stepunin, a KGB security officer. Then, in the present day, a disaster at a Russian research facility reveals catastrophic flaws in mankind’s understanding of reality. Erlichmann and Stepunin suddenly find themselves forced to work together to ward off the possible extinction of the human race. Resorting to the most violent outrages, their lives are torn apart. Labelled as terrorists, their motives and characters are questioned by everyone but, most of all, by themselves.

 

Judgement     Kindle edition £0.99 here or for $1.45 here

It started with a few isolated incidents: a mob shootout in Las Vegas, a firefight in the Central American jungles – one apparently unconnected event after the other, hinting at a worldwide conspiracy of unprecedented proportions. But before long CIA computer expert Bob Leith realises it’s something much more than mere globalised terrorism, something literally not of this world. His understanding of the nature of reality, and of what it means to be human, will be challenged to the very core in a dazzling novel of intrigue, physics and espionage.

Unusual Genitals Party    Buy for £0.99 here or for $1.45 here

Six stories and two essays by the author of Judgement.

A race of intelligent microbes that leave one last message before becoming extinct;

A student party gatecrashed by an alien symbiote;

A gangster who finds there’s nothing quite so profitable as the near-future world of academie;

A man who commits a suicide so perfect, even God can’t save him;

A battle between two astronauts sent on a suicide mission to save the world.

A groundbreaking collection of stories and essays from the author of Judgement guaranteed to turn your mind upside down and inside out. Also included is the classic non-fiction piece Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Neurosurgery Because You Were Too Well-Adjusted to Ask.

 

Fergus Bannon is the alter-ego of Barrie Condon. One writes jaded thrillers, the other tries to be a serious though rather heretical scientist. Science for Heretics is by the latter and can be bought for £3.99 by clicking here or for $5.23 by clicking here.

Science, as has often been remarked, is the religion of the day. However, unlike religion, it is far more firmly embedded in the everyday workings of our society and indeed we have got to the point where we can no longer envisage any real progress without it. Unfortunately there are profound problems with all aspects of scientific theory and methods.
For example: could it be that the idea of universal laws underpinning reality is a falsehood and, as a result, we need more and more scientists, and more and more computing power, to produce greater and greater elaborations on our theories to make them fit inconvenient experimental data? Indeed we’re being forced to break science down into smaller and smaller sub-specialities, each with ever more disparate theories pertaining only to their speciality and not applicable to others. Rather than an underlying unity we are finding only disparity and greater complexity. What’s worse, scientists are routinely having to resort to completely untestable concepts, such as many more spatial dimensions and infinite universes, to ‘explain’ our reality.
Throughout the history of science, reputable figures in science and philosophy have been casting doubt on some of the central assumptions of science and its various disciplines. These objections and criticisms have been ignored and then often forgotten in the face of the apparent overwhelming successes of science, but many of them are still perfectly valid. Often these criticisms are couched in abstruse language buried deep within academic texts. The aim of this book is, for the first time, to summarise these profound concerns across all the fields of science in a way that is accessible to the general reader who does not have a background in science. It also attempts to provide a warning of the risks that, perhaps even at extinction level for mankind, science runs by not acknowledging the often hollow foundations on which it is built.