{"id":239,"date":"2022-01-26T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/?page_id=239"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:10:01","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/books-comics-games\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"wp-container-2 has-text-color has-white-color has-background has-black-background-color has-large-font-size items-justified-left wp-block-navigation has-large-font-size\"><ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container\"><li class=\"has-text-color has-white-color has-background has-black-background-color has-large-font-size wp-block-navigation-item current-menu-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/books-comics-games\/books\/\" aria-current=\"page\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Books<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"has-text-color has-white-color has-background has-black-background-color has-large-font-size wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/books-comics-games\/comics\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Comics<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"has-text-color has-white-color has-background has-black-background-color has-large-font-size wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/books-comics-games\/games\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Games<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"has-text-color has-white-color has-background has-black-background-color has-large-font-size wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/books-comics-games\/other-writing\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Other Writing<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\n\n\n<p>Since leaving academia in 2019 Mark has focussed on his writing. He has published a first science fiction novel, &#8216;Icefall Cities&#8217;, and written a sequel, &#8216;Firedrift Moon&#8217;, that concludes the &#8216;Vast Alien Crisis&#8217; duology. In 2022 he also published a graphic novel, &#8216;Stellar Megastructure&#8217; (more info in the Comics section). He is currently working on a fantasy novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:16% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version-960x1536.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version-1280x2048.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version-1568x2509.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Icefall-Cover-v17-ebook-version.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"has-text-color\" id=\"vast-alien-crisis-icefall-cities\" style=\"color:#ffff00\">Vast Alien Crisis &#8211; Icefall Cities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#ffff00\">Deadly First Contact at the Edge of a Galactic Empire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her mind and body controlled by an alien. Stalked by an assassin. Attacked by killer robots. Lost in nightmare outpost cities at the edge of Settled Space. Deranged AIs quarrel in virtual worlds. Flocks of spaceships battle. The trans-dimensional bulk penetrated by a musical key. Stars, planets and moons destroyed on a whim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:16% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1-960x1536.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1-1280x2048.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1-1568x2509.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Firedrift-v4-eBook1600x2560-v1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"has-text-color\" id=\"vast-alien-crisis-firedrift-moon\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">Vast Alien Crisis &#8211; Firedrift Moon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#00ff00\">Star Spanning Alien Machines Awaken and Menace Settled Space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Checkani&#8217;s Vast Alien Encounter concludes in &#8216;Firedrift Moon&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Checkani encounters a new, deadly Vast Alien and has her sanity stretched to the limit.<br>More deadly robots, crazier planetary processing cores, weirder alien technologies and a galactic civilisation under threat.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:16% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fantasy-v1-eBook1600x2560-v1-1-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fantasy-v1-eBook1600x2560-v1-1-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fantasy-v1-eBook1600x2560-v1-1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fantasy-v1-eBook1600x2560-v1-1-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eyles.co.uk\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fantasy-v1-eBook1600x2560-v1-1-960x1536.jpg 960w, 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