Australian Berko
Title | Australian Berko PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Drake |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0595160530 |
Australian Berko by Simon Drake Terror. Sydney. A Crime Wave. Someone to Blame. Set in the darker side of post-Olympics Sydney, Australian Berko is the humorous, fast paced, action exploits of Wayne Berko the joker, accidental murderer, media manifested serial killer, cop and drug-lord executor, and righteously innocent modern day outlaw. He battles with the underworld of Sydney in the name of saving his drug-screaming sister Marisa and plans a devilish master stroke for the Crime Conference on Monday, but is yet to encounter the nature of the chaos that has led him there—Those that live by the sword, may die by the sword.
Get Rich Quick
Title | Get Rich Quick PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Doyle |
Publisher | Verse Chorus Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2012-08-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1891241249 |
Sydney, 1957. Billy Glasheen is trying to make a living, whether running a gambling scam, shifting stolen jewels, or greasing the wheels during a hair-raising tour by Little Richard and his rock 'n' roll entourage. But Billy's schemes always cross with the plans of the city's big players, an unholy trinity of crooks, bent cops and politicians on the make. Now he's in the frame for murder and on the run from the cops, who'll happily send him down for it. Billy's no sleuth, but there's nowhere to turn for help. To prove it wasn't him, he'll have to find the real killer.
Generous Enemies
Title | Generous Enemies PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Drake |
Publisher | Simon Drake |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2008-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0955971918 |
Following a global refugee crisis, Indonesia invades half of Australia and warlords emerge from the chaos of Occupied Australia. China steps in as the only superpower capable of restoring peace. Major Katherine Krue is ordered to take out an ex-Australian Army colonel, who commands a militia army and imports weapons of mass destruction.
The Return of the Last Space Explorer
Title | The Return of the Last Space Explorer PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Drake |
Publisher | Simon Drake |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2008-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 095597190X |
Adam, a neo-human specifically designed for space travel, returns to Earth after a 99-year voyage to find that civilization has changed and unexpectedly lurched backwards. Traumatized by space, isolation, death, and the mutiny of his own crew, Adam has many secrets to hide.
Alien Contact and Diplomacy: Get it Right or We Suffer
Title | Alien Contact and Diplomacy: Get it Right or We Suffer PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Drake |
Publisher | Simon Drake |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2014-05-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0955971969 |
Would aliens use Facebook to communicate with us rather than trust our politicians? Earth may be regarded as having an oddity, a zoo, or something of an amusement. The universe is a wild place, we're part of it, but what is it? To understand how Aliens sees us, we first have to understand our own history of exploration, contact and diplomacy, like when the Old World powers with the New World tribes. Earth history is littered with cruel jokes on unwitting peoples, where the collision of East Meets West ends with a party screwed over, or just wiped out of existence. Why should Earth's destiny among other races of the universe be any different? Fortunately, we can all agree on the implications of mixing with advanced alien cultures, yet technology shifts the means by which alien contact and diplomacy wants to integrate with our digital world. The responsibility for contact has moved from military elites and those in the know to the contrary, connected public. Soon, now, or a day in the future, we want to make real alien contact and our diplomacy either wants to have it subjugated and naively enslaved, or equipped with knowledge and technology that enables us to explore the stars.
The Bankers Who Sold the World
Title | The Bankers Who Sold the World PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Drake |
Publisher | Simon Drake |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2009-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0955971942 |
At the peak of the financial crisis a high-flying team of egotistical, ambitious and international bankers flying to a global emergency financial bailout meeting are visited by a duo of egotistical, ambitious, intergalactic alien bankers. The alien bankers ask if earth requires an intergalactic bailout that could save earth's crumbling economy by selling a part of earth to the alien banker's clients from across the galaxy. For the hot shot earthling bankers, keen to win deals and redemption, it is a clash of greed, ego, plus classic over and under-valuation of their own planet. Also, the alien bankers might be a different species but the game is the same: Thanks to the financial crash earth is going cheap, yet what is it really worth? Who are the alien's clients and what are their goals and assets? For the deal to be closed requires the usual twists of brinkmanship hedged on universally accepted fundamentals of return on value, depreciation, and of course bonuses. As with every deal there is a hitch - and for this intergalactic merger and acquisition it could be the short-sightedness of the earthling bankers, or the greed of the alien bankers from across the universe, or the clients: the high-risk and no-assets parasitic Klonger race, looking to invest in a new planet to call home. Can the earthling bankers save earth without 'selling out' earth, get back their vision, and earn their capitalist redemption? Will the alien bankers alter the course of humanity, or is earth just too much of a risk? How will historians of the future, both human and the artificially intelligent, view this clash of civilizations?
Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life
Title | Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life PDF eBook |
Author | Y. Strengers |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2013-09-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137267054 |
This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice.