THE TRILOGYSHADOW ON THE SUN (100,000 words, published 2012) is the first of a fast-moving trilogy of interlinked and overlapping stories - THE HANFORD TRILOGY - about a science that goes sadly astray as it gives its progenitors more than they ever bargained for. It happens over a timescale of a few short months although the science involved has clearly meddled with the perception of "time" for those affected. The promise offered is a freedom for mankind to break free from the perennial threat of nuclear extinction. ...
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THE TRILOGYSHADOW ON THE SUN (100,000 words, published 2012) is the first of a fast-moving trilogy of interlinked and overlapping stories - THE HANFORD TRILOGY - about a science that goes sadly astray as it gives its progenitors more than they ever bargained for. It happens over a timescale of a few short months although the science involved has clearly meddled with the perception of "time" for those affected. The promise offered is a freedom for mankind to break free from the perennial threat of nuclear extinction. BRIGHTSTAR is the defence system that seems to offer this attraction.During its testing phase a high-flying aircraft is accidentally brought down that in turn impacts the system designer along with his whole family. A conundrum is set free that appears impossible to solve. Yet "solved" it had to be be in order to solve the rest of a more complex and vital puzzle cutting across centuries.The second novel, DEEP EARTH (120,000 words, published 2015) focuses on a new' group of people who care little for what has gone before. Their goal is to seek revenge on a culture that has hitherto wrought military defeat on past efforts but by capitalising on the new opportunity they see BRIGHTSTAR as presenting a chance to even the score is possible.Finally comes the novel BRIGHTSTAR itself (171,000 words, published July 2019) detailing how the separate but interlinked stories contained in the preceding books, conclude in line with how the main story as a whole is concluded. This is accomplished with an inevitable surprise.Perverted science is not new as a storyline. This particular perverted science deliberately tracks what happened seventy-five years ago when the Manhattan Project was initiated aimed at developing the world's first atomic bomb. A result was the development of vast nuclear production site at Hanford in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and necessary to make the bomb's explosive. Over he next seventy years it would go on to replicate its skills by manufacturing a further 60,000 nuclear weapons.Along the way lethal waste was inevitably produced. It is still largely present either stored in underground holding tanks or leaking into the earth close to the Columbia River. At the river's mouth the 7 million population city of Seattle was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1889. It has grown to be ea flourishing city that houses flourishing companies whose headquarters include some of America's largest names like Amazon, the world-wide distribution company; aircraft manufacturer Boeing; and Microsoft, one of the world's largest microcomputerrelated companies.Federal Government agencies are trying hard to clean up the mess left behind after the Hanford was shut down in the Sixties and Seventies. Controversy rages between opposing lawyers, those Federal Agencies and some of the worlds' largest civil engineering concerns employed by them. The questions invariably posed is to whether their best endeavours are enough to ameliorate the near impossible tasks they have been asked to perform.Meanwhile is the knowledge that they are all working uncomfortably close to an earthquake zone known as "The Cascades" containing at least the stratovolcano, "Mt St Helens". 1980 this blew its top. Geologists at the US Geological Survey saw it as merely a warning of what was to come. THE HANFORD TRILOGY piles problems on top of one another in a multi-layered number of stories where fact and fiction have been combined into "faction" that twists and turns to keep the reader guessing o the end.
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