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Book 2 The Genesis of the CPDF by Cliff Dale was released in March 2025.
PRINTED ISBN: 978-84-09-?????-?
KINDLE ASIN: B08????????
The Deep Exploration Research Vessel Capsaa was long gone, or rather it had been repaired, renamed, and repurposed, it no longer explored anything and its research functions had been replaced.
It remained moored around the planet named after it, CAPSAA, and it was now just an administration station for the planet below.
The planet was a revelation, a proper gilded bonus for anyone lucky enough to have purchased a mining plot at the planets genesis, for there was so much here that you could literally scoop the riches right of the surface, and that is where the trouble started.
There were always those that wanted something for nothing, willing to steal anothers bounty with force if necessary, it started with pirates in the shipping lanes and then progressed to Raiders on the surface, something needed to be done to protect the products mined. The worrying part was that the mining contracts specified that the individual mining operations were responsible for their own security and protection, the trouble was that most of the companies on the surface were not being offered any protection from their owners who were safe in their offices light years away.
A solution to the raids needed to be found before they intensified, except no one could agree on how it was to be done, this is the story of how the Capsaa Proletariat Defence Force came to be and its early battles with not just the formation, but with the Raiders too.
The Genesis of the CPDF was released in March 2025, but was written and completed in 2023.
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A paperback 6x9" physical book (15.2x22.8cm)
239 pages - 110,000 words
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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.
There is a short article here about the Sculptors Studio and how it came to be named, and by whom here.
Book 1 - The Genesis of Capsaa - has been available since August 2020
Book 2 - Genesis of the CPDF - released in March 2025
Book 3 - Ghost in the Darkness - not until 2026 at the earliest
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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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The titles below denote a published works, click on the title to get a better description of the book and a preview of the cover image.
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.