Location: Australia
Member Since: June 30, 2011
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Peter Cawdron


Biography

Everyone's a writer at heart, whether it's an email to a friend or fully fledged book, we all love to express ourselves in one way or another. For me, writing is a way of exploring ideas, developing concepts. I grow as the characters in my books grow. I hope you enjoy them.

Where to find Peter Cawdron online

Blog: http://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/

Books

Monsters    by Peter Cawdron
Price: $2.99 USD. 98680 words. Published on July 29, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The fallout from a passing comet contains a biological pathogen, not a virus or a living organism, just a collection of amino acids, but these cause animals to revert to the age of the mega-fauna, when monsters roamed Earth.
Galactic Exploration    by Peter Cawdron
Price: $2.99 USD. 96450 words. Published on June 14, 2012. Fiction.
Galactic Exploration looks at the Rare Earth hypothesis through the fictional outlook of three interstellar space craft exploring our galaxy.
War    by Peter Cawdron
Price: $0.99 USD. 32770 words. Published on June 10, 2012. Fiction.
War is the fourth in a series of stand-alone novellas exploring the Rare Earth Hypothesis in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Savannah    by Peter Cawdron
Price: $0.99 USD. 24910 words. Published on April 16, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Savannah is the third in a series of stand-alone novellas exploring alternatives to the Rare Earth Hypothesis in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. How did a nurse from Chicago find herself on a voyage to the outer reaches of the galaxy? After taking up a position in an exclusive hotel in Kenya, Diana finds her world turned upside down by the advent of the equatorial space-port.
Trixie & Me    by Peter Cawdron
Price: Free! 26130 words. Published on March 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Trixie & Me is the second of series of stand-alone novellas exploring alternatives to the Rare Earth Hypothesis in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Serengeti    by Peter Cawdron
Price: $0.99 USD. 13270 words. Published on January 3, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Serengeti is a short story exploring an alternative to the Rare Earth Hypothesis in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Set two hundred years in the future, the Serengeti is a generation star-ship, venturing out above the Milky Way, searching for signs of intelligence. The crew discover far more about the nature of sentient life than they imagined possible.
Anomaly    by Peter Cawdron
Price: $2.99 USD. 68470 words. Published on September 10, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(4.75 from 4 reviews)
Anomaly is a hard science fiction look at the prospect of an alien intelligence discovering life on Earth. The technological gulf between mankind and the alien species is measured in terms of millions of years. The only way to communicate is using science, but not everyone is so patient.

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Smashwords book reviews by Peter Cawdron

  • Smashwords Book Marketing Guide on July 09, 2011
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    Everyone's heard of the guy that wrote an overnight best seller. Mark Coker, though, show how reality is far different. Even for the "overnight sensation" there would have been months/years of toil, doing the small things, pushing their wheel barrow slowly up what seems like an insurmountable hill. For a first time author like myself, this book was a great introduction into the hard-yards of marketing. I've started a blog, tried to tap into social media and will keep these simple keys in the forefront of my thinking as I tried to peddle my wares. To all budding authors, be sure you realise... writing is only half the story :)
  • Science Fiction Adventure Magazine - May 2010 on July 09, 2011
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    An interesting read, particularly to see some emerging sci-fi themes in the sample chapters, but the formatting doesn't always come out well on the Kindle. I enjoyed the speculation around evolutionary selection pressures on mankind moving forward. As noted in the magazine, for hundreds of thousands of years selection pressure has come from diseases like smallpox and environmental/competitive pressures but these have all ground to a halt in the last century!!! It is fascinating to think about what shape natural section will take for homo sapiens moving forward. I won't spoil the possibilities put forward, but I will add that some of these are fleeting in terms of evolutionary time but that may not mean they're not influential, they may turn out to be catalysts for rapid change. And then there's the prospect of artificial selection as well. All in all, it's a thought provoking concept, and that's the essence of good science fiction, something that makes us think.
  • Bob Moore: No Hero on July 09, 2011
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    In a world of super heroes, the real hero has no super powers at all... this is an enjoyable, humerous, fun-filled novel speculating on the downside of super hero proliferation.