My latest novel, Ned Kelly Time Pilot, is now available on Amazon, and has been published by Submarine Media.
I wrote this novel in 2022, during six months of enforced absence from my employment, due to the Western Australian Government’s extremely coercive and unjust vaccination requirements.
My experiences during this period inform the story and fire the passion that animates the character of Ned Kelly in this novel, who is a famous bush-ranger from Australian history. He is definitely the Irish-Australian character beloved of many Australians, but this is science fiction and his famous metal suit of armour is actually a time-travel suit, inherited from the Quinns, his grandparents, who travelled from the future to escape the dystopian nightmare the future becomes.
Those who have read the book have commented on the beauty of the descriptions of the Australian bush, and they say that the character of Ned Kelly is very sympathetic.
The book is available in the kindle format on Amazon, and will soon be available in a paperback edition as well.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTXBQJKC
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CTXBQJKC
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From the back cover: Ned Kelly peered out through the rectangular eye-slit of his metal helmet. Shrouded in the moon-glow of the early morning mist ascending from the damp scrub, sequestered in a ghostly veil, the police were everywhere and nowhere. The mist moved and Ned glimpsed a sergeant and four or five constables hidden behind mist-entwined shrubs, closer to the tavern, and what was that? A railway guard? Why was he here?
Ned looked into his little brother's eyes. "You coming?" he said.
Dan held his gaze for a moment then shook his head. "Not this time, brother," he said. "Me battery's dead. So is Steve's. You don't have to do it, Ned."
Ned said to himself it wasn't as if, if he didn't go, his brother wouldn't take his last breath thinking Ned didn't care about him.
He'd deplete his own battery if he went any further than a short jump, so Ned dialled in five minutes in the past, expelled all the air in his lungs and pushed the red button. Everything disappeared and he saw all around the indescribable beauty of the purple void, Imaginary Space, so-called not because this place was actually imaginary but because its coordinates were mathematically speaking imaginary numbers, multiples of the square root of negative one. Sure, Ned knew what it all meant; just ask him, any time.
The wormhole rushed past and suddenly he was standing with one foot on a log and the other in a rabbit hole. Ned stumbled and almost fell, for his inertia was carrying him through, but his heel was touching a stone and he managed to push off.
The railway guard was right in front of him, with eyes big as moons, wisps of cloud spiralling around him. The effin coward stumbled backwards and cried out, "My God, what is that?"
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This is the promotional video for Ned Kelly - Time Pilot. It is a little cheesy, but we’ve done this on a small budget. The interesting background was generated using a great piece of software, “Chaotica” https://www.chaoticafractals.com, the pictures of Ned Kelly are entirely sourced from photographs from the Nineteenth Century.
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If he's time traveling maybe get Ned to do something about the tackiness of Glenrowan.