The Fingalnan conspiracy: science fiction,

by John Rankine

Returning from an I.G.O mission with his co-pilot critically injured, Sam York had got this far in his battered Interceptor. The last thing he needed was a close call on planetfall with a merchant ship - especially one captained by a former service rival, George Dumalin. With a growing series of seemingly natural disasters on Earth planet, York sets out to find the answer to a series of baffling questions. What interest did the Outer Galactic Alliance have in asteroid F3Q7? And why where they willing to risk an incursion into I.G.O. space? What was the origin and purpose of the finely crafted artefact he found onboard the merchant ship? And, on a personal note, what on earth did Sally Hythe see in Dumalin? Everything started pointing to the silvery planet of Fingalna...

190 pages, Hardcover

First published October 26, 2013

About the author

John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason) is a British science fiction author, who has written books both as John Rankine and as Douglas R. Mason.

Rankine was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales and first attended Chester Grammar School and in 1937 went to study English Literature and Experimental Psychology at the University of Manchester, where he was a friend of Anthony Burgess (as mentioned in Little Wilson and Big God: The First Part of the Confession, AB's autobiography).