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the future is not a closed answer; it’s an open question
The Murray River, Australia’s longest river, in Mildura, Victoria.
We respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We honour the rich cultural heritage of all First Nations peoples and pay our respects to their past and present elders.
WRITING IN 2025
Numbers on Her Arm
a novel
When a young girl witnesses the brutal, cold-blooded murder of her parents at the hands of a Nazi commandant in a concentration camp, a burning desire for vengeance consumes her. She dreams of seeing two bullet holes in the commandant’s forehead, his cruel face hidden by a crimson cascade of blood.
Her journey of revenge is no mythical odyssey with stormy seas, Cyclopes or Sirens. Instead, it’s a relentless pursuit of a Laestrygonian-like Nazi monster who hides in plain sight—first as a revered holy man in India, then as an unassuming teacher in Australia.
Years later, as she watches blood trickle from two precise holes in the monster’s forehead, one question lingers: who stole her lifelong pursuit of justice?
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PUBLISHED 2024
Updated 2024 edition of the most popular book on the riddle of the incredible Siberian explosion of 1908, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, first published by Icon Books, UK, in 2005.
At about 7:15 a.m. on June 30, 1908, a massive fireball exploded in the skies over Siberia. With force a thousand times greater than the Hiroshima atomic bomb, it levelled over 2,000 square kilometres of the remote Tunguska forest—an area larger than metropolitan London—sending a mushroom cloud towering into the stratosphere.
What was it? A wayward black hole, a crashing comet, a rogue asteroid, an exotic rock of antimatter or mirror matter, a methane gas blast from below, an alien spacecraft, a laser beam fired by extraterrestrials, or an early experiment in nuclear physics that got out of hand?
Nearly a century and a quarter on, this grand dame of science mysteries still fascinates scientists and charlatans alike.
Whichever way you look, the Tunguska event is a captivating journey in serious science, speculative science and science fiction. This informative and engaging book invites you to explore that journey and perhaps glimpse the truth behind this enigmatic explosion.
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PUBLISHED 2021-23
This book presents a collection of a wide variety of ideas that may help you to live sensibly, serenely and successfully. The ideas are not personal, spiritual or speculative; they all are relevant to everyday life. Most ideas have been proven by scientific studies (theories), and a few are based on age-old wisdom (things). The stories are sharp, simple, spirited and require no knowledge of science, only a curious mind.
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THE FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED IN 2007 BY ICON BOOKS, UK, AS “WHY ARE NOT THERE? THE QUESTION OF LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS”
Is there anybody out there? Are other life forms lurking in outer space – or are they already here?
This calm, intelligent and witty survey of the history of humankind’s search for extraterrestrial life brilliantly outlines the historical, fictional, speculative and emerging scientific opinions on what alien life might be like.
The fast-moving narrative examines facts, dispels myths and focuses on the possibilities lurking in space. In a popular and easy-to-read style, the author uses current research to speculate what life is like on exoplanets (or extra-solar planets), how we might communicate with it, and what Earth might seem like to visitors.
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