"Exodus runs a parallel storyline to Nubl Wars and gives greater insight into the ending of the other book.
Xerac has found a way to beat the system and ensure his own survival during a time when the Nubl are expected to attack the Earth. It will mean that life as he knows it will have to change.
In a moment of total irony, Xerac fulfils his destiny and so becomes the first human to die so that he may yet live.
As Xerac attempts to get off-world via the new ARKs that are being built to hold the nucleus of Earth colonies, Ossie from Space Island, Arty and other AIs stand in the way of his ambition.
Can he thwart them all and escape Earth’s fate?"
"As the post-attack chaos forces Earth governments to realise they no longer have the ability to maintain order; the destiny of mankind falls to a select group of human and artificial intelligence to prepare a defence against annihilation by the Nubl hives.
Pod’s growing sentience causes problems when she lets her guard down. Zeke gets severely wounded, ultimately forcing the mutating DNA to intensify its activities. His friends and colleagues believe he cannot survive the transformation, but Zeke doesn’t give up that easily.
Meanwhile, Arty obtains a mental boost. Believing he has the answer to everything, he makes plans to do what he can to protect humanity from extinction. Pennington baulks and demands all the high-calibre AI’s be controlled - preferably by him. This doesn’t go down well with humans and AI alike, but there is no time to dwell on the issue, because the Nubl are coming."
"Humanity has managed to develop its fledgling World Space Council, but it's still far from being effective and there are those who do not want it to succeed at all. Meanwhile, the alien AI, Pod, is the only thing standing between them and those intent on eradicating all biological sentience within the galaxy. It's almost too much for the tiny escape pod that has been left in charge of Earth's safety.
So, while humans continue to war with each other over who should lead them into a future fraught with uncertainty and danger, the tiny AI attempts to ensure the eventual winner has something to defend Earth with. It doesn't help that the AI has been inadvertently damaged from the use of contaminated Alacite from it's adopted 'Maker', Zeke.
As Pod explores its growing abilities, it finds that Zeke's thoughts on artificial sentience begin to gel with it's budding awareness. However, with everything that is happening Pod has no time to ponder its own existence when the 'real' action starts"
"Zeke's on the run from government scientists who want a piece of him; and now an alien wants him too, or more precisely the piece of exotic meteorite that's moulded to his skull. To get it the alien has to get Zeke to give it up, but knows the extraction will kill the human. Then there's the Nubl, an enemy artificial species who will eradicate all biological life on Earth. Time and space are running out for all of them."
"AWA Agent Philus Grady is sent on a clandestine investigation of a terraformed planet suspected of being the cause of growing hostilities between the CORE Navy and the Allied Worlds. Grady's unique training uncovers the planet's amazing secret of a repressed truth that will alter history, a truth that almost gets him killed. In a race against time and enemy ships, Grady has to expose the CORE's secret, but will the news spark the war they all fear is coming."
"Following on from The Pattern Ship, ‘POD’ the second book in the series, sees the newly sentient escape pod, accidentally enhanced by Zeke’s transformed Alacite, continue to develop as an individual.
Despite Zirkos and Ship remaining missing, the tiny AI continues to try and follow their instructions to assist the humans develop their technology. As the power struggle between Fortress and Space Island continues on Earth POD decides to await the outcome; concentrating instead on preparations to take on the real enemy, the Nubl."
"In the year 2020, a landslide off the English coast uncovers an alien escape pod that had crashed into a prehistoric swamp. The dormant AI awakens to a very different world it entered millennia previously. Now, it must utilize stored ancient patterning technology to reconstitute its Master. However, this proves no easy mission as it scours this strange new world for essential materials to rebuild its ship.
As a homeless man, Zeke has worked hard to claim a back-alley as his own territory where a restaurant’s staff leave him food scraps. As if things aren’t bad enough Zeke’s escaped a dark Government agency. He has a partial metal skull, forged in the Middle East from a meteorite and hammered into shape by a backstreet blacksmith. Over time the strange alloy irreversibly bonded with his brain and is leaking into his DNA, changing it. Now the DARPA scientists want him back to find out why he's still alive.
When the newly-revived Master discovers that the only source of an essential component for its ship is the foreign material in Zeke’s head, the alien faces a difficult moral dilemma. The Master comes from a species that reveres all biological life wherever it is found, and Zeke will die if the metal cap is removed. It’s left to the AI to find another way?"
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