About Ian McKinley: Ian McKinley is a Scot, living in Switzerland and spending much of his time in Japan. A professional scientist and fan of all forms of science fiction in books, comics and movies, he decided at the turn of the century to extend from writing text books and technical papers to the new challenges of fiction. Writing occurs mainly during long vacations spent diving, skiing and exploring exotic locations, which provide inspiration and settings for his books.
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He writes novels set in the middle of this century, major social and environmental changes along with rapidly developing technology forming the backdrop for action thrillers written for a mature audience. The characters play a central role, tacitly establishing the cultural changes resulting from increasing sexual permissiveness and growth in the power of mega-corporations at the expense of national governments. As Ian has a wide overview of the most recent developments in science and technology, the future worlds described are credible and, given their generally dystopic nature, maybe worryingly so.
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| Quantum AI EOTWAWKI Crypto-crash Ian McKinley Imprint: Double Dragon Genres: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF CLICK HERE to get told when further books by this author are published A small Swiss team develops a quantum AI to fight cybercrime, but the resultant technological singularity changes the world as we know it, with super-powers fighting to gain control - regardless of genocide-level collateral damage. |
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| The Swiss Assassin Ian McKinley Imprint: Double Dragon Genres: Science Fiction, Thrillers Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF CLICK HERE to get told when further books by this author are published Peter is a hitman targeting "untouchable" criminals, with biomimetic drones and tailored toxins as tools of his trade. When he uncovers a cabal aiming to benefit from encouraging environmental collapse, can this be neutralised without actually catalysing a pre-programmed apocalypse? |
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| Common Mode Failure Ian McKinley Imprint: Double Dragon Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF CLICK HERE to get told when further books by this author are published Suddenly there is no electricity, all electronic equipment is dead, services requiring electric power are gone ??" Common Mode Failure! Things go downhill fast; those struggling to survive fighting against both globally-warmed nature and others intent only in benefiting from the disaster. |
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| Mishima's Legacy Ian McKinley Imprint: Double Dragon Genres: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF CLICK HERE to get told when further books by this author are published A perfect storm emerges when a plot to create a population-control pandemic coincides with socio-political disruptions from runaway climate change. A small counter-terrorist team must combat this alone, neutralising threats in Europe and Asia while avoiding the risk of causing global panic. |
| Ian McKinley COF Ian McKinley Imprint: Double Dragon Genres: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF CLICK HERE to get told when further books by this author are published What would it be like if you woke up tomorrow morning and all computing infrastructure had vanished? It's a scary thought! Now move forward three decades, when quantum computing and artificial intelligence prevents collapse as the result of unsustainable development of an over-populated planet. A hacker attack that destroys this isn't scary, it's apocalyptic! Billions die and survivors are thrown back to a Stone Age hunter/gatherer existence. Well, most of the survivors. Cof had created one of the few communities that retained technology and was set to be a center of a new renaissance. He would do anything to protect this commune and his plan for the future, including mass murder and use of weapons that would have convicted him for crimes against humanity in earlier days. But did the end really justify the means and would his leadership be accepted if anyone found out the scale of the slaughter that it was based on? |
| Ian McKinley Emergence Ian McKinley Imprint: Double Dragon Genres: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure Available Formats to Download: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader RTF CLICK HERE to get told when further books by this author are published Emergence is a science fiction thriller set in the near future, when supercomputers are ubiquitous and the knowledge engineers who manage them have inordinate power. |
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