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Independent Book 2 EARNING THE SPURS by Cliff Dale was released in April 2023.
PRINTED ISBN: 978-84-09-50417-6
KINDLE ASIN: B0C3Z5DJ2V
It was an odd place to work, Getone was the planet, but it was the moon of Yatton where the hard work was done.
As for the big man, he was a little odd himself, definitely hard, and he had amassed a rep that was perhaps a little exagerated,
but it suited his purpose, he was happy with his lot and his plot, his life was ordered and simple.
Now, he was about to upset everything by taking on some newbie he had never met as a business partner,
and he had to try and teach him all about the art of Krypton mining without killing them both, that would be a challenge.
It was something he had never tried before, not the mining thing, he was doing well at that, at least he was surviving it,
it was the teaching thing he was new at, he wasn't sure if it was the right way forward, Krypton mining was hazardous at the best of times,
turn your back on this stuff and it would try and kill you, a bit like the other miners.
Getone was a collection of five doomed places, one hesitated to call them cities, they were too small, tunnels connected several of them,
ugly places in the main, but if you looked for it, there was culture to be found on this rough tough lump of rock,
sadly, most miners drank themselves to oblivion in the drinking dens and ignored the finer side of life.
For a miner, he preferred the quieter life, but if he had to crack a few heads to get it, well, he wasn't adverse to that,
any disagreements tended to be short lived though, his rep was well earned.
His new business partner was going to shake things up in more ways than one and there was plenty of learning to be done by them both,
it was strange how life could be turned around by single events, and his was about to take a twist or three he had never envisaged.
He had hoped his past been left far behind but it was about to come in handy, and their was an element of fate to this new partnership he never saw coming,
things he had taken for granted would be changed forever and there were to be unseen consequences, he was about to endure both,
but could it change his mind and his future? Time would tell.
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At the present moment this is the second independent, stand alone, story available,
EARNING THE SPURS
Earning the Spurs is the title of a story started in 2021 and it took until 2023 to get it finished,
it is the second independent story to be published (i.e. one without a follow on story),
it does have some relevance to the events and places in my other books, and there is additional content only available online from links in the book.
This book was written after a conversation with my son Phil in 2018, the basic idea took form and it eventually turned out like this, a book.
Originally, it wasn't going to be a long story at all, but it turned out to be closer to 500 pages than the planned 300.
Once again, Phil did the cover image for this one as well as all the previous books.
The Kindle version was available from the 29th of April 2023 and the printed version from the 30th of April 2023.
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London born in the 60s and moved near to Bristol in the summer of '69, there I can recall seeing the grainy black and white images of the first moon landing as it happened, it was an exciting time of discovery.
I was already an avid reader of Science Fiction by then and brought up with the excellent BBC TV series Doctor Who,
I can vividly remember watching it in black and white in the mid-'60s, (and hiding from the Cybermen behind the sofa!), and then,
reinforcing the Sci-Fi adventure with other TV series in the '70s and '80s with the likes of Blakes Seven, Quatermass, Day of the Triffids and more.
School life was good, college followed and work, family arrived and grew up, and in between I started writing a book, that book ended up being published some 40 years later, Orbiter One, At Worlds End started life in the late 70's.
I have written a few more since then, and published them, there are more to do.
All my books and other works are here for you to discover.
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Orbiter One is a series of books that deals with the aftermath of an extinction event, and the story of those that try to journey beyond it.
The Anecdotes series are a collection of short stories (anecdotes) told by a particular character who relates their own past experiences of the job to work colleagues. Sometimes there is an element of truth, quite often they are blatent lies, and there is always some form of subterfuge going on, the anecdotes are a means to an end.
Capsaa is a series of books set on and around the (fictional) planet of Capsaa, it is to be found just off the equitorial plane of our own solar system, around the edges of the constallation of Apparatus Sculptoris, the Sculptors Studio, this place does exist.
Breaking News is the title of a story created during the CoVid19 outbreak of 2020
and is the first independant story to be published (i.e. one without a follow on story),
though it does have some relevance to the story line in my first book, At Worlds End (in the Orbiter One Series),
and there is a possible second story, though it is not quite a direct follow on .... maybe.
The Kindle version was available from 7th of July 2020, and the printed version from the 9th.
Earning the Spurs is the title of the second independant story to be published, set on a mining planet,
it follows the fortunes of a miner and his new business partner on the rough world of Getone and its moons and the rapid changes that surprise them both.
The Kindle version was available from 29th of April 2023, and the printed version from the 30th.