You Cannot Kill the Root

Destroy the root of all evil or destroy ourselves. We decide.

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In the future the citizens of civilised society are required to take part in the System, a grand attempt at tackling wealth inequality. After poor but brilliant Wesley Moon inexplicably fails his career aptitude test, ending his dream of becoming an astronomer, his introduction to an underground resistance group reveals the System to be a sham, its machinations designed by a clique of wealthy elites called the Consortium.

As Wesley is targeted by more than one faction over his suspicious test result, he comes to realise the Consortium is responsible for far more than just the System, leading him into a world of covert surveillance, robot assassins and secret space stations – and, ultimately, horrifying truths about the future of humanity.

Wakers of the Cryocrypt

The future. The human race is extinct. Earth is ruled by eltecs, descendants of the AIs humans created before their demise.

While searching for prehistoric cave paintings, two eltec explorers discover a hidden cryogenic crypt containing 23 perfectly preserved human bodies frozen inside crystal columns.

As eltec society argues over who might have built the crypt and what to do with it, one of its occupants is restored to life. Human beings are no longer extinct, but, for reasons of their own, not every eltec wants to see them come back. The only living human on Earth is in terrible danger.

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Coming soon.

The Chimera's Coming

Some people don't fit in for a reason.

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When chronic misfit Isaac Winter walks out into the freezing cold of a January night, he only has one thing on his mind: ending his own life. Instead, he encounters something in the darkness that makes life worth living. Something strange. Something scary. Something not of this world – an extraterrestrial machine of unknown origin and intent.

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After developing an obsession with this other-worldly entity, events are set in motion that lead Isaac to a secret military organisation, strangers with superhuman powers, and – ultimately – a revelation about his own past he could never have dreamt of.

Exovelum

After starting work as a nightwatchman in a huge office complex, Alexander Manning finds there’s one intruder he could never have predicted. It shows up in the same place, at exactly the same time, once a week, a trespasser in the dead of night whose entry into the building it’s impossible to prevent.

The intruder is something incredible: a glitch in the fabric of reality itself, a flaw in the programming that suggests everything is merely an illusion, the result of a computer-generated simulation designed to mimic an actual universe.

At first Alexander finds himself mesmerised by this eye-pleasing visitor – until strange, disturbing events that defy explanation start shattering the calm of his normally uneventful graveyard shifts. The glitch may not be what it seems, and it may be far more dangerous than it looks.

Xeno

Sometimes in space you wake to a nightmare.

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The huge spaceship the Xeno is en route to a new world light years from Earth, its payload of more than 50,000 cryogenically frozen colonists watched over by a supercomputer and a skeleton crew of only a dozen people.

When the ship comes into contact with a seemingly inert alien artefact drifting in space, the crew believes they’ve made a momentous discovery for all humankind. They’re unaware it’s the eve of true horror.

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Soon it becomes clear the crew have unwittingly woken an evil so ancient and so powerful it threatens not only the ship and its slumbering passengers, but the future of the human race itself.

Holohive

Having escaped the clutches of the Acybernetic Initiative, David Lawney finds himself on a small island off the coast of southern England. But now zombies may be the least of his worries. All indications point towards irresistible forces massing against him and the adoptive son he has sworn to protect.

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Soon David comes to a stark realisation: protecting the boy – along with what remains of the human race – means going on a mission to assassinate Holohive, the artificial intelligence whose virus decimated humankind. But Holohive is no easy target. It has started a new empire, expanding its race to include lethal androids capable of tearing human beings apart.

What David faces is a virtual suicide mission, but it’s one he seems destined to embark upon whether he wants to or not.

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The sequel to the novel Doomware.

Void

Insurance worker Robert Samson wakes one morning to find the entire world outside his home has vanished overnight, leaving his house suspended in the middle of a vast, dark, featureless void.

With limited tools at his disposal, he sets about examining the void and his place within it, trying to explain its sudden, mysterious appearance. Meanwhile, his total seclusion causes him to start looking back on his life, especially the traumatic fallout of a childhood incident involving a young girl named Rainey Day.

Utterly alone, with food and water supplies that are dwindling rapidly, can he find a way out of the void before he loses his mind – or even his life?

The Lights

All over the world spheres of white light have descended from the sky, levitating into them anyone who strays too close. These people are never seen again. Many believe the Rapture is taking place; others are certain aliens are carrying out the mass abduction – or even the mass annihilation – of humankind.

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Teenage stammerer Steven Lesser doesn’t know what to believe. Caught between the incessant arguments of the faithful and the faithless, he spends his time watching every online video and TV news report about the Lights, looking for signs they’re approaching his sleepy seaside village.

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Steven and his father plan on driving to London when the Lights arrive, heading for the relative safety of the Underground. But when the time comes, Steven is faced with an unexpected choice. Should he stick to the plan? Or should he try to help the girl he’s secretly in love with?

Glass Within Glass

The Immortal Tourist. An alien being made of energy arrives at a pale blue planet with a single moon. While studying the planet’s indigenous population, it stumbles upon a humanoid who appears to be flouting all the conventions of its society. Can the alien being save this strange creature before a rare and destructive phenomenon reaches its world?

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The Turning of the Fauna. The animal kingdom has violently and inexplicably turned against humans, decimating the world’s population. A young woman sets out to rescue her brother from a swarm of hornets, unaware she is about to discover the cause of the calamity.

Wormwood / Workload. From his holiday home on the West Country coast, a London investment broker spots something in the sky over the ocean. The falling object is on a collision course with Earth, and its name is Wormwood.

The Anguisher Creature

When police officer Christian Kraus attempts to arrest a notorious serial killer who has been cutting a swathe of terror across London, he is unwittingly exposed to something beyond his worst nightmares – a murderous parasitic creature that lives inside a human host.

As the mental and physical strain of the creature and its terrible feeding habits takes hold, Christian finds himself on the run, wanted for murders he did not commit, hunted by an unidentified military organisation, his only hope his best friend and a stranger known as the Professor.

But the vicious organism within him has a terrifying life cycle he knows nothing about, and it threatens not only his own survival, but the survival of millions.

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Originally published as The Pervasion of Christian Kraus.

Doomware

It is a future time, when brain-based cybernetic computers are all but universal throughout humanity. A computer virus of unprecedented potency has swept across the globe, laying waste to technology and leaving half of the world’s population dead. The other half are neither dead nor alive – they are zombies, reanimated not by witchcraft, but by the virus infecting their brainware.

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David Lawney – an acybernetic, whose body inexplicably rejected brainware as a child – has survived the disaster in a London now teeming with horrors. Haunted by memories of society’s mistreatment of his kind, living in constant fear of a gruesome death, somehow David must find the strength and courage needed to protect a fellow survivor, a young boy, whose existence may hold the key to the only remaining record of all human history.

Followed by the sequel Holohive.