Graham Storrs

Biography

Graham Storrs is a science fiction writer who lives miles from anywhere in rural Australia with his wife and a Tonkinese cat. He has published many short stories in magazines and anthologies as well as three children's science books and a large number of academic and technical pieces in the fields of psychology, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.

He has published a number of sci-fi novels, in four series; Timesplash (three books), the Rik Sylver sci-fi thriller series (three books), the Canta Libre space opera trilogy. and the Deep Fracture trilogy. He has also published an augmented reality thriller, "Heaven is a Place on Earth", a sci-fi comedy novel, "Cargo Cult", a dark comedy time travel novel, "Time and Tyde", and an urban sci-fi thriller, "Mindrider."

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Series

A Luke Kelly Crime Story
When his girlfriend, Chelsea, is murdered, Luke Kelly becomes the prime suspect in the police investigation. But Luke knows something the cops don’t: he is innocent. With the help of a washed up ex-cop, Luke sets out to find the real killer, a journey that will take him far beyond the quiet academic life he once knew into the dark corners of the city he loves, from a life of ideas and innocence, into a world of violence and fear. Coping with his grief and the growing realisation of his own inadequacy, Luke struggles to keep going in his quest for justice. Only the persistence of his strangely driven new friend, Ronnie Walker, keeps him moving forward. But Ronnie’s dark nature frightens Luke too and looks set to drag them both deeper into the shadows behind the bright facade of the life he thought he knew. Bright City Deep Shadows is the first book in the Like Kelly crime story series.
Deep Fracture
This is a tale told by the ancient robot, Broome, about a group of humans caught up in an alien attack that threatens to destroy everything. Tam and Prad Pokkar, traders from the Republic of Karmarg are catapulted to the heart of the action when an incomprehensible alien weapon destroys their friends and relatives. They set off to face the invader, knowing nothing of who it is or why they have attacked. Only one person has an inkling of what is going on. Berenetta, a young, terrified Earth-woman with a brilliant gift for mathematics, begins to grasp the science behind the alien technology. When Tam and Prad find her, Broome, their Chief Engineer, remembers something from its almost-forgotten past, a legend of enhanced humans with similar technology. The transhumans of Omega Point. So they set off to find these lost superhumans, believing they might be humanity's last hope. But the shock waves of the attack are spreading across Human Space and the fragile peace between scores of anxious polities is collapsing. Omega Point is not what they expected and nor are the invaders. As war erupts all around them, Tam and his crew struggle to stop the invasion and end the conflagration.
Timesplash
Fast-paced time travel thrillers set in the near future. Jay and Sandra are just teenagers when their lives are changed forever by their involvement in the underground, time travel splashparty scene. The series follows them through the next two decades as they struggle to be free of the legacy of this dangerous and life-destroying technology.
The Rik Sylver Sci-Fi Thrillers
In a clash between transhumans and the religious right, a washed up PI ends up as the meat in the sandwich – with the fate of humanity resting on his reluctant shoulders.
The Credulity Nexus
Price: $0.99 USD.
The Sentience Machine
Price: $4.99 USD.
The Dissonance Factor
Price: $4.99 USD.
The Canta Libre Trilogy
First contact triggers a race to the stars and a series of terrible events that lead to an invasion of the Solar System by several alien forces. The crew of the Canta Libre begin their deadly adventure as emissaries of earth, then become supplicants to a powerful alien empire, and finally warriors as they join the battle to save humanity.
Emissaries
Price: $4.99 USD.
Supplicants
Price: $4.99 USD.
Warriors
Price: $4.99 USD.

Books

Never-Ending Day
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 96,790. Language: English. Published: January 30, 2024 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Taras Fraser, an agent of the League of Worlds, is chasing the terrorist known as Yuna through deep space. They are far from home when they are hijacked and taken into a gigantic and mysterious sphere. From then on, their lives become ever more entwined as they struggle for survival in an adventure spanning the vast interior of the sphere, with the lives of billions hanging on their success.
Metaman
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 111,800. Language: English. Published: August 5, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Becoming a metaman was more of an escape from Ross McGowan's downward-spiralling life than a job he really wanted but years of isolation, degradation and drudgery in the service of the Post-Human Collective would give him plenty of time to regret the choice. But the discovery of an ancient Martian technology put him in deadly peril and set Earth and the post-humans on the path of war.
Bright City Old Wounds
Series: A Luke Kelly Crime Story. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 103,900. Language: Australian English. Published: January 3, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Ronnie Walker’s past has caught up with him. The body in his garden is a message that makes no sense and now everyone around him is a target, including his partner, Luke Kelly. But Luke and the people he loves are bound to Ronnie’s fate. As the case unfolds, hunting the murderer who is hunting Ronnie pulls them all into deadly danger, despite Luke’s best efforts to keep them out of it.
Bright City Dark Love
Series: A Luke Kelly Crime Story. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 96,940. Language: English. Published: June 1, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
The police have made no progress on the Harry Cross murder in a year of trying. Despite plenty of suspects, little evidence, the murky motives of the client, and the many issues in their private lives, Luke Kelly and his partner, Ronnie, jump at the chance to solve this famous mystery. But Luke soon finds the powerful Cross family are not all happy to have the case revived – and nor are the cops.
Bright City Lost Souls: A Luke Kelly Crime Story
Series: A Luke Kelly Crime Story. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 96,860. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Luke Kelly's new PI business is struggling when a client walks in off the street and asks him to investigate the murder of a university art professor. But even with the help of his ex-cop partner, Ronnie, the case goes nowhere until, suddenly, violently, it begins to unravel. Bright City Lost Souls is the second book in the Like Kelly crime story series.
Bright City Deep Shadows: A Luke Kelly Crime Story
Series: A Luke Kelly Crime Story. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 92,500. Language: English. Published: September 23, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
With the help of a washed up ex-cop, Luke Kelly sets out to find his girlfriend's killer, a journey that will take him far beyond the quiet academic life he once knew into the dark corners of the city he loves, Coping with his grief and a growing realisation of his own inadequacy, Luke struggles to keep going through the deep shadows behind the bright façade of the life he knew.
Nadezhda: Book 3 of the Deep Fracture trilogy
Series: Deep Fracture. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 110,930. Language: English. Published: October 14, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
They did the impossible and found the legendary Omega Point. Now, with the help of the erratic transhuman Martin Lanham, Tam Pokkar and his crew must fight their way through fractured space to stop the weapon that is destroying humankind. But, even if they reach it, the enemy who sent it is out there, watching, ready to strike again, while a massive interstellar war engulfs all of Human Space.
Omega Point: Book 2 of the Deep Fracture Trilogy
Series: Deep Fracture. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 103,860. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
After a disastrous encounter at Loner’s Deep, Tam Pokkar and his crew head to Earth to warn of an alien attack. Behind them, a massive interstellar war has erupted among the human worlds. Humanity’s one hope is to find the lost civilisation known to legend as Omega Point. But Earth itself is divided and Captain Pokkar’s crew are in danger of becoming pawns in its internal political struggles.
Foresight: Book 3 of the Timesplash Series
Series: Timesplash. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 100,710. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Jay and Sandra are back—fighting to save a world on the edge of destruction. When a bizarre global catastrophe hits, it looks suspiciously like the mother of all timesplashes but Jay Kennedy begins to suspect that the shock that rocked the world was something more sinister -- a new kind of time-travel technology that could destroy the planet. And, somehow, Sandra Malone is in the thick of it.
True Path: Book 2 of the Timesplash Series
Series: Timesplash. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 106,810. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
The most wanted man in America is about to destroy the entire nation—or save it. When Sandra Malone is kidnapped and forced to help him build a time displacement rig, her daughter, Cara and Jay Kennedy are catapulted into a desperate race to stop the deaths of millions. A thrilling continuation of the best-selling Timesplash series.
Timesplash: Book 1 of the Timesplash Series
Series: Timesplash. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 94,540. Language: English. Published: June 25, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
It started out as something underground, edgy and cool. Then Sniper took it all too far and people started dying. That’s when time travelling changed from being an extreme sport to the ultimate terrorist weapon. A fast-paced thriller with an original take on time travel, Timesplash takes you on a wild ride through a world already on the edge. Book 1 in a highly acclaimed time travel series.
Loner's Deep
Series: Deep Fracture. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 114,710. Language: English. Published: September 30, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Alone on a mountain top, the robot, Broome, longing for rescue, tells the story of Loner’s Deep and the events that brought the human race to the edge of extinction, of how it found itself at the centre of a wild and dangerous adventure spanning Human Space. The Federation, itching for war, The Sphere of Light standing against it, while, at Loner’s Deep, something much more dangerous was stirring.
The Dissonance Factor
Series: The Rik Sylver Sci-Fi Thrillers. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 95,840. Language: English. Published: July 7, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Even working in a mining camp on Enceladus can't stop the transhumans of Omega Point dragging Rik Sylver back into their world of danger and intrigue. A transhuman has been murdered and, somehow, this is tied to a covert plot within the US Government that has MI6 operative, Fariba Freymann, investigating against the orders of her superiors. The Dissonance Factor is the third Rik Sylver novel.
Mindrider
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 90,200. Language: English. Published: May 16, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Arramar and his people have come to colonise the minds of humankind. But humans are already inhabited by indigenous, mind-dwelling monsters; the “nightmares”. War between his colony and the nightmares has begun and many humans will die. Arramar struggles to save humanity but his only allies are a handful of humans whose minds he rides and who are as scared and confused as he is.
Warriors
Series: The Canta Libre Trilogy. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 132,470. Language: English. Published: January 11, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
First contact with alien species was a disaster. Fleeing alien warships, the survivors of the Canta Libre race back to Earth to find a vicious global war is raging and they have been branded traitors. Fighting for their lives on all fronts, Captain Ashton and his crew are Earth's only hope to defeat the aliens. But the weapon they bring to save us may well be the biggest threat to human survival.
Sisters
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 82,460. Language: English. Published: January 1, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
Alexandra Bertolissio is a homicide cop, a slight, sensitive woman, making a reputation as a brilliant detective in a world that is brutal and tough. Her younger sister, Mel, is a beauty, reckless and carefree, she is adored by everyone and a magnet for trouble. "Sisters" is a collection of crime stories, including two full novellas, featuring these two remarkable women.
Time and Tyde
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 85,260. Language: English. Published: September 14, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Being insane and being visited by an amoral jerk from the future are not all that different. Whether he believes his troubles are down to one or the other, for Vince Demarco the outcome is just the same and just as disastrous. This is a black comedy, filled with sci-fi themes, in which the hero struggles through what he can only see as his growing madness, to the promise of a glorious posterity.
Supplicants
Series: The Canta Libre Trilogy. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 117,540. Language: English. Published: July 6, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
First contact with an alien species had not just been a disaster, it had been a bloodbath. Now, what is left of the crew of the Canta Libre must travel deeper into the galaxy, to plead for help from another, more powerful race. But the humans arrive in the middle of a violent civil war and the alien leaders are in no mood to deal with backward intruders from the Milky Way's rimward wasteland.
Emissaries
Series: The Canta Libre Trilogy. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 163,660. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » General
First contact came as a message of friendship from a place so far away Earth could barely reach it. But the UN-led team sent to represent humanity was not the only one. Criminals and unscrupulous governments also wanted to be the first to meet the aliens. The struggle to reap the rewards alien contact might bring would be vicious and deadly. Yet tor the survivors, the real struggle was still ahead
The Future Below
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 43,590. Language: English. Published: April 21, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
This is a collection of 15 science fiction stories long and short, near and far future, high and low tech. A few have appeared in sci-fi magazines or anthologies but many have never been seen before. All of them are about people like us, struggling to find love or salvation, or even just a place to grow, in a future they didn't make – just as we do now, in the future in which we find ourselves.
The Sentience Machine
Series: The Rik Sylver Sci-Fi Thrillers. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 94,650. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Once again, PI Rik Sylver and the uploaded thief Rivers Valdinger become unlikely allies as they track down the perpetrator of a series of crimes against the transhumans of Omega Point. Quickly finding themselves caught in a web of lies, misdirection, prejudice, deadly danger, and high-level corruption, they stumble towards a shocking discovery that neither of them could have foreseen.
Heaven is a Place on Earth
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 89,560. Language: English. Published: January 2, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk, Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
Cal Coplin has disappeared. When Ginny receives a message from him, asking her to deliver a package, her decision to help plunges her into a world of fear, corruption, and massive deception. On the run, Ginny finds that, in a world dominated by augmented and virtual realities, nothing is as it seems, and the deception runs deeper than anyone could imagine.
The Credulity Nexus
Series: The Rik Sylver Sci-Fi Thrillers. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 88,840. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » General
In a clash between transhumans and the religious right, a washed up PI ends up caught in the middle of their deadly machinations, with the fate of humanity resting on his reluctant shoulders. Only he can find the credulity nexus and powerful factions are ratcheting up the pressure to make sure he does.
Cargo Cult
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 125,850. Language: Australian English. Published: April 1, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Vinggans' crash was not all it seemed, interstellar law enforcement is on their tail, and the humans are inexplicably strange – especially the busload of old folk they make off with, the New Age cargo cult that welcomes them, the local police force that is following them around, and an overambitious reporter and her idiot brother who don’t help matters by kidnapping crewman Drukk.
Snowy
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 9,420. Language: English. Published: July 14, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
For Bob, his work as a lab technician was just a job. He didn't get involved with the people or the lab animals - until the day they began to experiment on Snowy. (Short story, over 9,000 words.)
The Earth Ship
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 8,830. Language: English. Published: April 1, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
(5.00 from 1 review)
This is a short story (under 9,000 words) about a distant future and a lost colony. The planet Beasphor had enjoyed hundreds of years of peace - until the Earth ship arrived.
Finding the Future
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,400. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
A short sci-fi story by Graham Storrs about finding a path to survival wherever it may lead.
Threefold
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 10,470. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Threefold is a collection of three unusual short stories by Graham Storrs. In Honkie, a young girl struggles to understand her dying grandmother's life. Seven Keys tells how a young man deals with the terrible aftermath of his brother's death. And The Last Dragon is a rare excursion into fantasy by this author, a bittersweet tale of love and loss and the end of magic.
Placid Point
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 27,470. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
These are stories of humanity in transition. A young man finds himself in charge of a box full of human minds, a maintenance crew hears screaming from inside an unmanned space station, at the end of time, the last transhuman enjoys mince pies and sherry. Whatever form our future takes, death, betrayal, sex, and Christmas will always be with us.
Hangin' With the Monkeys
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,430. Language: English. Published: March 21, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Animals » General
Hanging with the monkeys - the humans that is - is always loads of fun. I'm a dog that needs lots of fun in my life. And food. I'm not sure what this was all about. Monkey Girl started it. But it involved everyone getting wet, me saving the day, and me being fed. Now that's my kind of story! Hangin' With the Monkeys is a children's book, suitable for 6- to 8-year-olds and their parents.

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