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Derek Langley

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Derek Langley has built a thirty-eight-year career designing airborne reconnaissance and surveillance systems; work which has taken him all over the world – currently, his team’s designs are helping protect wildlife against poaching. He is a new author and, with retirement imminent, plans to continue his passion for writing.

In November 2013, an open day at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy provided the inspiration to develop a nascent idea for a science thriller story based around energy, love and balance. Written over the following years during holidays and weekends and predating the COVID pandemic, Drowse is his first novel.

Derek is a family man, married to a great woman for over 40 years with two grown-up children. He has been an active an ...more

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Drowse

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Orbital

by Samantha Harvey

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