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K. Mclachlan

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My background even confuses me!

A sixties child, I was born in England, to a long line of Scots from Glasgow, moving to Western Australia at 6 months old and back to England again at 3 years old. As an adult, I spent the majority of 25 years travelling the globe with the Royal Navy, never setting down any roots and even spending a couple of years in Italy. I'm now back in Australia, this time South Australia. I'm not planning on moving again any time soon!

My first major venture into publishing is with my series of Novelettes/Novellas, The Space Salvager Chronicles, centred around the Mitchell family and their adventures during the human expansion into our Solar System. It's border Spec Fiction/Sci-fi. The stories will span many hundreds of y ...more

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Review - First Contact by Michael R. Hicks

First Contact (In Her Name: The Last War, #1)

First Contact by Michael R. Hicks

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I came into this book knowing nothing about the author or any of his previous works. It was a random choice. However, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

It is basically about a war against humans and an Alien race (the Kreelans) that I guess would be much like Klingons - warlike and living for the battle - but with a little more dep Read more of this blog post »

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The First Space Dustman (The Space Salvager Chronicles, #1)

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