A Guide to First Contact

[Terence]

Hi all

A bit about me:
I've been an avid SF / Fantasy devotee for a while and I've devoured dystopian works by HG Wells, Philip K Dick, JG Ballard, John Wyndham and others; as well as the more traditional fare of Heinlein Ra, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny, A C Clarke....
There comes a time when you want to add your two cents worth and discover if you've got a novel in you.

That's the origin of A Guide to First Contact.

Is it a textbook?
No certainly not. The title is taken from a line in novel and is an ironic play on the disaster that unfolds following first contact.

Here's some teasers:

First Contact.
What would it mean?
Rapture? Chaos? Peace? The end of our kind? All these things and more?

Read it and discover:
...a Star Being set to watch over our out-of-the-way planet: a vast and powerful entity with an agenda.
...two intelligence agents, one sexy and ruthless, the other a bit of a bumbler, who get caught up in intrigues that culminate in the collapse of Western civilization.
...a gang, whose influence stretches far beyond their base in the ruins of New York, yet they have an uneasy coexistence with a clandestine alien facility in the heart of Manhattan.

Much of 'Guide' is straight adventure, but it can also be read on different levels. Not every character is in every chapter. Bearing in mind that readers like to see where each tale goes, I've added a Story Arc section in the Kindle edition (with relevant links) so readers can track main character appearances and follow particular story lines.

About the Kindle edition.
ATM the link above points to a hard copy edition. I hope to put up a Kindle link over the next day or so and plan to offer it at a special price to Goodreads members.

(Nicholas Smith (author of The Biomass Revolution suggested the Kindle Conversion... so - err - thanks for all the hard work Nicholas... :-) ).