Available from Amazon at the links below, the fiction stories are speculative, optimistic, scientific and uplifting.

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS BROWNER

250 years from now, will neighbours in adjacent countries caste envious eyes on Australia?

Can Australia be united by a central, rational, scientific government under Prime Minister Abajoe? The story has a manifesto to avoid sectarian conflict in secular Australia.

PRESUMED DEAD

In a city governed by a bipartisan duopoly, could self-interest of political parties corrupt politics and cause the disappearance of Jane Kenwood, an iconic woman city councillor?

Can her boyfriend Phillip Keane, a forensic scientist, unravel the political skulduggery?

SHORT OF LOVE

Tom and Vicki meet at university but their affair is delayed by their careers, which involve

unethical corporate trading between Canada and an African country. The story is a satire. It exposes Tom’s corporate capitalism and his attempt to trade his girl friend in a commodity short. How will Vicki respond?

TIME IS GOLD

Maxi, an elite marathon runner, trains following advice given by a physicist, psychologist, neuroscientist and a Zen Buddhist. Her think tank discuss philosophies in endurance performance. Her boyfriend Jack depends on her success for his PhD thesis. When sports promoters try to stop her using a winning training technique, will they succeed?

ANIMAL FARM 2

The story sequels George Orwell’s satire Animal Farm (1945) and updates it to recent times. The pigs’ totalitarian control continues on Caruba, where the Social Republic installs missiles adjacent to the Democratic Union. The animals learn English and climate science in order to contest the closing of their coal mine, their only source of employment. Will the animals overthrow the pigs? Can the animals farm without the pigs?

TURKEYS NOT BEES

Megan is an Australian pole vault champion in training for the 2032 Olympic Games, whose career is halted by nanny state overreach, preventing her from using a new training method. She and her boyfriend Chance are individualists, opposed by collectivists who level competitions to bring success to outsiders and profits to investors. Will Megan and her boyfriend Chance be able to successfully oppose mandatory restrictions in a pandemic with non-violent resistance?

BRISBANE RIVER ANTI-MEMOIR

A fresh look at the floods by Cartesian and then Heideggerian phenomenological analysis, identifies actions river authorities should take to protect homes from flooding and damage. For people whose homes are exposed to risks of all kinds, the author’s prescription, based on Nietzsche’s philosophy, could be enlightening.

THE CAMEL, THE LION AND THE CHILD

A self-determined man’s career is transcendent, trying to end the Cold War and parallels Nietzsche’s story Thus Spake Zarathustra, when his spirit adopts roles of a camel, a lion and finally a child, in this fable of self-realisation.

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