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Last On: Mar 7, 2012 - 10:12 AM
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March 27, 2007
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Mt. Lehman, BC
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shoutlife.com/rsutc
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http://www.arjaybooks.com/
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Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Writers Exchange
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The General (2006)
The General is alternate-history Irish-flavoured Christian science fiction and is the sequel to The Peace, The Friends, and The Exile (Volumes One to Three of The Interregnum).
The General recounts Tadgh O'Kelly's life from his 1987 graduation as Kilkarney's top cadet to his career as an army forensic investigator. As the years go by, he gradually knits the threads of evidence from numerous kidnappings of women and children into a noose, but finding the guilty neck to tie it around takes all his skill, and not a little help.
A second arc of the story cycle follows Mara Meathe from her arrival at Tara's court. She confronts Frank Haggerty, then is given a series of assignments by the Donal. Fellow Afghan campaign heroine Maeve Derry encounters Brian O'Niall and Mara's friend Jana in Centralia. They discover a worldwide conspiracy against The Friends of The Day. Subsequently, Maeve, Mara, and Nellie Hacker are called to West China by Cath Maguire, to fight floods, bandits, and yet another conspiracy. When two helicopters are lost with all aboard killed, Cath is charged with cowardice and sent to Tara for court martial. Her former Kilkarney Cadet-Sergeant Tad O'Kelly is made Senchus to try the case.
The third arc takes place on Tirdia, near the BC Fraser Valley's Chilliwack. Nellie goes to Tirdia to assist Day MacAllister with some court appointed espionage. During a delivery of sensitive electronics from MacAllister Enterprises, her car is stolen. With RCMP Inspector Morris O'Malley, Army Intelligence officers Sandy MacFarlaine and General O'Connor, and local paperboy Lucas Caine, she recovers the stolen goods. Most of the thieves escape, apparently via a local nursing home. There, Lucas discovers Jane Doe, a quad amputee who's blind, can't speak, and appears to be a hundred years old but thinks she's twenty-one. In danger from two nurses with a macabre hobby and doctors who'll despatch her when they're finished experimenting on her, the paralyzed, half-dead woman is also a key to cracking Cath Maguire's case, provided she can persuade Lucas to heal her and help her escape to Hibernia without telling him what's going on.
Events of The General play out on Hibernia at Tara, Edenderry, Luna City, Toronto, South Africa, India, Afghanistan, Centralia, West China, and Japan of Hibernia as well as in Chilliwack and Aldergrove on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada (Tirdia).
--- Volume 4 of The Interregnum.
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The Nexus (2006)
The Nexus is alternate-history Irish-flavoured Christian science fiction and is the sequel to The Peace, The Friends, The Exile and The General (Volumes One to Four of The Interregnum).
The Nexus continues Mara's story from the conclusion of the trial over which Tad O'Kelly presided as Senchus in The General, through new foreign assignments, then back to Tara to await the coming nexus and the crisis it will bring to Hibernia's capital. There she battles pirates, gun runners, kidnappers, and a host of plots against the realm.
Elbon the Builder of Meta (John Dominic on Tirdia) returns from a meeting of the Metan elders to Tirdia and the orphanage at Berea, unaware that his daughter Eider has followed him. She encounters Lucas and the two have a narrow brush with two of gangster Al Marcotti's thugs. In the aftermath, Lucas eavedrops on Eider's conversation with her father and hears of their relationship and of the other earths. His loyalties now torn, Lucas leaves that afternoon's creation debate to strike out on his own. But Eider follows, and the two are caught up in both the nexus and Marcotti's ongoing violence.
Maeve Derry sends one of her Centralia cadets out on a training mission, only to have to pull his body from the bottom of a river several hours later. What she learns next necessitates the reappointment of Tad as Senchus, and another sensational hearing at Tara, one punctuated by a shocking and cowardly attack. After Maeve's return to Centralia, she is lured to the St. Charles islands, and there disappears.
We experience the nexus with Lucas, Eider, Catherine, Mara, Margaret, and Maeve, then hear the account of the aftermath at Tara's court the next day, when MacCarthy forces mount an all-out attack, but find themselves under pressure from the Friends at other locations.
But The Nexus leaves many loose ends. Who and where is the King? What is next for Thomas Monde and his schemes? What will the MacCarthys' next move be? What has become of Lucas and Eider? Of the new earth? Some of these will be respolved in volume six, The Builder. Others await the concluding volume The Throne.
Events of The Nexus play out on Hibernia at Tara, Dublin, Afghanistan, India, Berlin, Moscow, Mergui, the St. Charles Islands ,and Centralia well as in Chilliwack and Vancouver on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada (Tirdia) and in the Builder's City and home on Meta.
--- Volume 5 of The Interregnum.
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The Exile (2003)
The Exile is alternate-history Irish-flavoured Christian science fiction and is the sequel to The Peace and The Friends (Volumes One and Two of The Interregnum).
The Exile recounts Day MacAllister's return from exile on Tirdia and subsequent involvement with The Friends, the life of Sheana A'Kildare/O'Toole to her arrival at Tara, Lady Karina's second escape from prison and subsequent life at Tara, and the six months of Lady Mara's life from departing Lagos to the day she entered Tara's court, including the obscure but critically important Afghan expeditionary campaign, whose true nature has only now been declassified.
The Exile also recounts the exploits of Kilkarney's famous class of 1989, some of whose members became almost as well-known as those of the class of 1968.
Events of The Exile play out on Hibernia at Tara, Kilkarney, Moody, Prison City, and in Afghanistan, as well as on the west Coast of British Columbia, Canada (Tirdia).
--- Volume 3 of The Interregnum.
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The Friends (2003)
The Friends won the EPPIE2004 award for the best science fiction novel of 2003.
The Friends is alternate-history Irish-flavoured Christian science fiction and is the sequel to The Peace (volume One of the Interregnum). In the decades following the deposition of James IV, High King of Greater Ireland and the Federation of Earths, his descendants and relatives struggle to survive and maintain the Pax Hibernia and counter clan MacCarthy's genocidal high-tech schemes. Katherina Rourke loses everything but her close-knit group of friends when first her mother Iron Kate and then her father Matthew (formerly Donal IV) are murdered. Then the friendships disintegrate, and a later donal uses Sean Reilly to kill Katherina, Jack, and their infant Mara. But none of the three stay in the grave. One plot of The Friends follows Lady Katherina to and through the battle of Glenmorgan as student, soldier, security expert, fugitive, rebel, sailer, adoptive mother, and prisoner. An intertwined story tells of Sean Reilly and his allies in their quest to depose the corrupt donal. A third and later sequence relates the coming to age of Meghan/Mara, as she builds a worldwide organization The Friends of the Day, dedicated to restoring Tara's true throne. London, Moody, Tara, and Penal City are the stages on which the interwoven tales of romance and tragedy play out toward the 2000 nexus and the 2001 culmination of the ban on the throne. --- Volume 2 of The Interregnum.
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The Peace (2000)
The Peace is alternate-history Irish-flavoured Christian science fiction. James IV, High King of Ireland and the worlds she rules, is deposed at the height of the Three Worlds' War (1941). Banned from the throne by his corrupt nobles for 60 years, he struggles to survive and maintain the Pax Hibernia despite clan MacCarthy's genocidal high-tech schemes. Characters from our earth struggle with their own religious and political loyalties as they are drawn into Greater Hibernia's intrigues. Remote Edwardstown (Calgary) becomes the stage on which three interwoven tales of romance and tragedy converge, launching reborn lives and new hopes. --- Volume I of The Interregnum.
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About Richard J. (Rick) Sutcliffe
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Rick Sutcliffe is professor of Computing Science and Mathematics at Trinity Western University. He is the author of two non-fiction (text) books and an award winning series of Christian Science Fiction novels called The Interregnum.
Of this series, the first six are available in paper (dead tree format) via Amazon/Booksurge, and all five are available in eBook formats from the usual eBook retailers, including Fictionwise, and the publisher, Writers Exchange.
More information about Rick and his books is available at his main web site Arjay Books |
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