His genius for adaptation gives recent immigrant Duncan Wemyss the chance to win some security even in the fantastic environment Down Under, where the sky gapes below you and the ground is overhead. But the Antipodeans are restless and ambitious. They are searching for a leader to rescue them from the horrors which ooze from under the South Pole.... A review from the renowned historical novelist Dee Swift, author of A Divided Inheritance, for the first in the series, The Slant. There is a lot of humour ... but there's also enough danger and tension to make you want to carry on reading... The strength of the writing is in the imagining of a world with fewer, simpler laws and what that might mean for a human trying to survive in it. A review from Ann E. Edwards... This is a brilliant book. The writing is fluent and easy to read and the story carries you along on a huge adventure into a realm which is very different to the one we live in. You share young Duncan's trepidition, as he feels his way through the challenges that face him. This book is for all sci-fi enthusiasts, young and old.
In the grand tradition of the Golden Age of Science Fiction where we wondered at the worlds of HG Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, rising star Robert Gibson brings us this tale of the planet Mercury and a teenager mysteriously transported there. Hugh Dent awakes to find himself in an alien body where he has been living a parallel life as an inhabitant of Mercury - and what's more, it's the legendary, disproved, Twilight Belt version! Memories slowly return of his alternate life on this harsh world, and in the course of his adventures he meets other transplanted 'Earthminds'. Taken captive, Hugh and his friends must find a way of saving not only their own lives but also the future of Earth itself: for, terrifyingly, life on Earth is next on the list to be 'disproved' - in fact, as some readers may have noticed, the doom has begun.... Paying homage to such classics as the Barsoom novels and The First Men in the Moon, Valeddom paints a vivid tale of wonder and adventure and a welcome return to the thrill of discovering new worlds. Classic Science Fiction at its best. Robert Gibson's Kroth series, beginning with The Slant, is also available through all good bookshops.
Bored aristocrat Midax Rale is on a quest for purpose in his life. The peril is no longer theoretical: the dread Winter of Simplicity, when all complexity will devolve, is at hand. To save humanity, light and complexity must be concentrated, and Universe 7 prefigured more intensely; but no one, least of all Midax, can solve the mystery of women...
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After an experiment into telekinesis and the power of the mind, Duncan Wemyss finds himself transported to a terrifying new world. A planet with an absolute "up" and "down," a place where lower latitudes tilt ever more wildly towards an infinite drop into the abyss of deep space. Topland, the territories around the North Pole, are the only level spaces and fiercely defended against the invaders from below. Desperate to escape their precarious existence on the fantastic gradients of the South, the monstrous creatures of the lower latitudes launch an invasion of the North. Duncan is thrust into the middle of a violent war and forced to call on talents he never knew he had, talents the Northerners need for their very survival. The Slant is a fantastic novel about an ordinary human forced to survive in an alien environment, a world so extreme its inhabitants have to struggle and fight each day for their survival. The story recalls the sense of wonder created in masterpieces such as Rendezvous with Rama and Ringworld. Robert Gibson evokes the golden age of Science Fiction.
The Slant brought Duncan Wemyss down from Kroth's flat North Pole, as far south as Latitude 60, Slope 30 degrees, where he fought the defensive battle that saved Topland. From that point The Drop takes him yet further down through lands and cultures of increasing tilt, to rescue captives and spy upon enemies who lurk in the dread jungles of the vertical Equator.... Reviews for The Slant "This is a brilliant book. The writing is fluent and easy to read and the story carries you along on a huge adventure into a realm which is very different to the one we live in. You share young Duncan's trepidation, as he feels his way through the challenges that face him. This book is for all sci-fi enthusiasts, young and old." "The Slant presents its readers with a truly original idea that prompts us to imagine a world like our own, but so very different. This is a very well written book by an author who obviously has a love of 'classic' science fiction and an excellent grasp of the written word.
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