My first SF book launched

After a lot of re-editing and fine tuning, I've finally published my first science-fiction book: The Record Count of Westminster.

It's a time-travel tale filled with a mix of power, politics, prostitution, religion and the obsessions of the media. Here is the back-of-the-book blurb:

In the year 2062, Edward Marsh’s career as UK Prime Minister is being destroyed by a prostitute scandal from his past. The media is relentless in its attack. But the Ministry of Defence has been experimenting with time travel and may offer a way out – but only if he has the courage to carry out one secretive, brutal change to history…

Although there are no classifications for books in the same way there are for films, there is nothing in the book that you wouldn't find in some of the more challenging episodes of Star Trek. So it's a safe read but doesn't shrink for delving into some serious social issues.

The book is around 25,000 words along, equivalent to 60 page of A4. It is self-published via Amazon's Kindle publishing platform. Cover art is by Stuart Geddes:

Here is a section from near the start of the book to further whet your appetite:

What did it matter that he’d used a prostitute in his twenties? Not every man on Earth could be a saint.
He picked up the voodoo doll again. It was tacky and cheap, a tiny little thing an ex-girlfriend had given him as a joke at university. But he’d kept it. It reminded him that there was no magic fix to life’s problems.
Rose Thompson had fathered him a son. That had been a shock. Worse, the son was useless, all tracksuits and tattoos. His thumb pressed hard against the voodoo doll’s black-cloth belly. How could he have been so stupid?

The book is now available and you can read the opening chapter via its Amazon page. Hope you enjoy!

Cheers,

Greg.