REKINDLING OF HOPE "Take this as a warning" It is the year 2022. Planet Earth is in serious trouble, and an alien super intelligence called The Bearing has decided to intervene to stop humanity from imploding. The story traces the political and geophysical issues at play, while following the emotional lives of three key people involved in the plan to avoid disaster and save mankind in this dramatic science fiction novel. The Bearing created artificial intelligences and an alien space station known as Habitat to aid a human they have appointed as overseer. As part of the plan, the overseer has...

Following on from Rekindling of Hope, this science fiction book moves the story of the Melbourne Institute and its hidden ruler, Peter Shepherd, on toward the next generation. Peter and his wife, Zoe, continue to deftly control the tide of events while trying desperately to stay in the background. Fortunately for them, their twin children, Tim and Katie, rapidly grow into positions where they become influential. While the governments of Earth have grudgingly accepted that the institute has overriding authority, nearly two decades of relative peace and stability are threatened when an alien...

Following on from "Rekindling of Hope" and "Consolidation of Hope," this science fiction novel describes the rebuilding of the ecology of a primitive planet, its subsequent settlement, and the subsequent development of a new federation by one of the Shepherd children. In this project, they are assisted by artificial intelligences, which are, effectively, life forms in their own right. The alien super intelligences, collectively called The Bearing, continue to provide considerable help as the successful creation of this federation is critical to their plans for further developing the galaxy....

Throughout human history, most significant events would have happened through movement of peoples, food and economic pressures, or fundamental religious or political differences. In a few cases, individuals have played starring roles, and their presence or absence made a fundamental change to the flow of history. Defence of Hope combines two storylines in a science fiction format, one of which uses the backdrop of real events and people in the past combined with a fictional narrative to describe some key divertants. The other storyline moves into the far future, and the two threads regularly...