Latest book available for free from Google Play Books

The latest Nathan Kuzack novel, Wakers of the Cryocrypt, is now available for free from Google Play Books.

Here's a reminder of the synopsis:

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 man on Earth is in terrible danger.

You can get the book from this link. The book is also available from Amazon, Apple Books and Kobo.

Xeno II is in the works

My 2019 science fiction horror novel Xeno is long overdue a sequel. It's especially ripe for sequels because, as mentioned in its prologue, the first Xeno starship was followed into space by Xeno II and Xeno III. It only seems right that those ships should fall prey to nightmarish extraterrestrial horror too. I mean, why should they get an easy ride, right?

It's no secret that Xeno was originally inspired by the Alien movie franchise, and especially Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien (which you can read about in this post). Next month sees the release of Alien: Romulus, a film I haven't been this excited about since... well, the release of the last Alien movie, which turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. I'm hoping this new film by Fede Álvarez won't be a repeat of that. In case you hadn't guessed it, I'm a huge fan of the Alien films.

Alien: Romulus will undoubtedly serve as extra impetus as I'm in the process of writing Xeno II. I'm hoping the new book will be released in a matter of months, and hopefully before the end of the year.

Exovelum renamed Ultravelar

My 2021 novel Exovelum has been renamed as Ultravelar. The story itself hasn't changed at all, so it doesn't make any difference which version you read.

Why have I done this? Basically because the original name has always bugged me. The word exovelum is a noun that translates as "external veil" or "outer veil", while the adjective ultravelar means "beyond the veil" or "on the other side of the veil". The importance of this distinction will be immediately obvious to anyone who's read the book.

The synopsis is:

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 at the same time and place once a week, a trespasser in the dead of night no security guard could ever banish.

The intruder appears to be a recurring glitch in the Matrix, proving that reality is an illusion, the result of a computer-generated simulation designed to mimic an actual universe.

At first Alexander is mesmerised by this eye-pleasing visitor – until bizarre, disturbing events start shattering the calm of his previously uneventful graveyard shifts. The glitch may not be what it seems, and it may be far more dangerous than it looks.

Ultravelar is available from Amazon.