The Listeners - Judge Dredd Crime Chronicles: Double Zero

Each month, the folks who create the excellent audio dramas at Big Finish Productions run an open participation discussion called The Listeners, in which they discount a play for download and ask the audience to weigh in with their opinions...

April's Listeners title is one of mine - Double Zero, an entry in the Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles series starring Toby Longworth as Dredd, and Doctor Who's Louise Jameson as Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson from the pages of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic 2000AD! The story will be available at just £2.99 on digital download until the end of the month.

 
Double Zero: on the Mills-Wagner scale of psychic potentiality, this rating is ranked as the lowest possible level of human telepathic receptability and/or psionic ability. [See also: mind-blind; mundane; pariah effect, brain burn] - Excerpt from the Justice Department Psi-Division Operations Manual.

When a strange premonition draws Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson to her fellow law officer Joe Dredd, what begins as an inkling of something sinister soon becomes a matter of life and death.

With telepathic secret agents from a dozen city-states infiltrating the Big Meg in search of a psychic weapon called 'the pariah', Anderson and Dredd find themselves in a race against time to save the life of an innocent child - with the power to start a war.

You can download a digital copy of Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles - Double Zero by clicking Here; also, check out the latest issue of Big Finish's free magazine Vortex, which features a short interview with me about the play, or take part in the discussion about the story at this dedicated thread over on the BF forums...

All That Remains - New Horus Heresy eBook out now!

The Imperial Truth was a limited edition Horus Heresy anthology released in back in 2013, just 2000 hardcover copies available at special events and the like; but now the stories have been re-released for a wider audience in eBook form, and that includes a tale by me called All That Remains.

The blurb says:

As Horus’s rebellion consumes the galaxy, the dead number in the billions – far greater, however, are the countless casualties evacuated from front line duties to tend their wounds and someday return to the fight. On one particular vessel cast adrift in the warp, a handful of ragged Imperial Army soldiers make a startling discovery, and the question of why so many more of their comrades have been lost is soon answered...
 
Get ready for a mystery like no other. A derelict ship harbouring sick and dying men gets caught up in a secret mission straight from the Emperor's right hand man, Malcador, to create a new army to save the Imperium. Too bad the citizens on board don’t know that. This story is a fascinating revelation about the birth of the Grey Knights and exactly how the seeds of their Chapter were sown.

You can pick up a digital copy of All That Remains right Here or just go all in and grab the full Imperial Truth eBook collection Here.
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First Contact Day 2015 next weekend!

We're less than a week away from First Contact Day 2015, a fan-run Star Trek event taking place at the National Space Centre in Leicester - aptly scheduled over the 4th and 5th of April, which of course is the weekend when Zefram Cochrane makes first contact with the Vulcans in the movie Star Trek: First Contact (48 years hence, I should add).

Along with me and my fellow Star Trek author Una McCormack, we'll be joined by actors Garret Wang (from Star Trek Voyager), Claudia Christian (from Babylon 5), Alan Flyng (Star Wars) and via subspace radio Skype, Trek expert Larry Nemecek (author of The ST:TNG Companion).

There will be guest talks, Q&A's, photo shoots, signings as well as a special "dinner with the stars".

For information on the event, click Here or visit the event's Facebook page Here.

Star Trek: Titan - Sight Unseen

My next Star Trek novel will be my third aventure with the crew of the U.S.S. Titan, in a all-new story called Sight Unseen; Pocket Books have just released the official blurb, which you can read below this ace screenshot from Tobias Richter's amazing Titan CGI animation...

In the wake of political upheaval across the United Federation of Planets, Admiral William Riker and the crew of the U.S.S. Titan find themselves in uncertain waters as roles aboard the ship change to reflect a new mandate and a new mission. On orders from Starfleet, Titan sets out toward the edge of Federation space to tackle its latest assignment: to work with an alien species known as the Dinac, who are taking their first steps into the galaxy at large as a newly warp-capable civilization.

But when disaster befalls the Dinac, the Titan crew discovers they have unknowingly drawn the attention of a deadly, merciless enemy—a nightmare from Riker’s past lurking in the darkness. Friendships will be tested to the limit as familiar faces and new allies must risk everything in a fight against an unstoppable invader—or a horrific threat will be unleashed on the galaxy!

Star Trek: Titan - Sight Unseen will be available from all good bookstores from September 29th.

UK Games Expo 2015

Another brief convention update; after having a great time last year, I'm pleased to have been invited back to the UK Games Expo event in Birmingham...

The Expo will be taking place at the NEC Hilton Metropole once again, for three days of tabletop gaming and related coolness - I'l be along to sign and sell books, and to take part in some panels...not to mention spending too much money on stuff in the dealers room. Click on the banner to visit the site and learn more.

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