I.Simpson's Galaxies
SCOTLAND 2062
Sci-Fi set in Scotland in the near future after the present political system, has run its course, and something better has come along. Quirky ideas, about what could be possible, without resorting to “magic”, based on real technology, albeit spun forward, with an upbeat positive thread, instead of the usual bleak dystopian run of the mill end of the world stuff. Leaving the reader with hope for once…
- Chapter 1 (Read an Excerpt...)
- Chapter 2 (Coming Soon...)
North Sea Tales
Tales from the North Sea from the unique perspective of some lucky enough or unlucky enough to have experienced life offshore on many and various ships and offshore installations in the recent past...
Offshore Africa Stories
Humorous and anecdotal stories loosely based on experiences traveling and working during the 1980’s and 90’s, in the African offshore oil industry. Drawing on some real and some imagined situations that should never have occurred, but unfortunately did, all too often. Near sinkings, legendary drinking bouts, malaria driven feverish events, and incredulous run-ins with the politics of Angola and Nigeria from officialdom and from the locals. Old boats and oil equipment that should have been out to pasture, but all ending up offshore Africa, along with the same calibre of personnel, who drifted along with that old equipment.
Acme Professor Retired
Here is where the Acme part of the professor's description name comes from, the USA Warner Bros cartoon Road Runner where Wile E Coyote tries to catch the speeding “RoadRunner” bird. Wile E. Coyote often obtains various complex and ludicrous devices from a mail-order company, the fictitious Acme Corporation, which he hopes will help him catch the Road Runner. The devices invariably fail in improbable and spectacular fashion. So the Acme Prof has similar all encompassing and slightly mad ideas and inventions and flights of fancy, as encompassed by the never say no fictitious Mail Order “Acme company”, who always delivered, no matter how crazy the idea. He sits up a mountain in the South of Spain retired and slightly eccentric, but with a hell of an imagination. So if you like the idea of almost unlimited flights of fancy, with perhaps a revolution “or two” how he is thinking about certain things, strap on and hang on!
