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Shortlisted for this year’s Cygnus Science Fiction awards NORAD’s Ghost is a post-apocalypse dystopian science fiction novel and follows the mysterious Thundersky Reece, who defies all that it means to be topside. Those who are topside have lessened lifespans, infected by radiation sickness, and infertility due to the war nuclear war of 2025. Thundersky (the man who defies all) makes some discoveries about himself that he is supposed to keep secret. However, it is that secret that holds the potential future for everyone. As the secret unfolds, it also reveals the deception and corruption of the Utopian Empire.
Thundersky Reece is a “mudsurfer” sent on an unexpected high-stakes mission to the ruins of ancient New York, when he discovers he is not at all who he thought he was, he is thrust into the elite Silosian empire, which has a tight rein on all citizens within its grasp. This does not include the scavengers, religious zealots, or cannibals that claw at the city’s borders, but they maintain a veil of safety from outside threats.
With the awakening of ancient, crumbling technology deep in a mountainside that had laid waste to the Old-World in 2025, this uneasy peace between factions will not save a soul if live nuclear warheads suddenly awaken then countdown to detonate in ten days. Thunder and his sudden ally Tiger White team up with soldiers and the old enemy, the Virginia Dusties from the wilds beyond their borders to track down the missiles set to launch. Despite aid from the omnipresent yet mysterious AI named Arti, betrayal and manipulation from the highest levels of society threaten to stop the team. With the puzzle pieces of his past falling into place, and a new love in the form of Reaper Bloodbuck falling into his arms, Thunder is put to the ultimate test and a desperate race against time...

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Lysander of Sparta, now a young warrior, longs for command and the much-anticipated war with the Athenian Empire to earn his place through the tests of battle and become the warrior he was born to be. He does not have to wait for long…Far away from Sparta, a great naval battle is fought between the mighty fleets of Corinth and Megara against Corinth’s ancient former colony, Corcyra, which has made an alliance with Athens, who have dispatched ten warships to join the Corcyraean fleet near some islands called Sybota.
Little does anyone know, that from this battle, the bloodiest war in Greek history will spring…
As the greatest army ever massed on the Isthmus of Corinth prepared its invasion of Attica, Brasidas is sent with 300 hoplites to Messene, to put down any signs of helot rebellion and to patrol the coast…
Lysander, now an elite of the Spartan hippeis (Dioskouri) is also dispatched to Messene on a separate mission. To take command of a small militia at the city of Methone, in defence against possible Delian skirmishes, little knowing that a fleet of 150 Delian war triremes, a 100 of them Athenian is sailing for the poorly defended city, with an invasion force of near a thousand crack hoplites under Socrates.
Besieged, Lysander can do little against such a force but fight to the very death, street by street, and with just a handful of Spartans, and a militia of loyal helots, he must hold Methone and hope that help will arrive in time.
Pericles of Athens, has not only taken on the might of Sparta, he has taken on the might of the gods themselves and soon, the shadow of Death passes over Athens with the outbreak of a strange and deadly plague, plunging the city into a dark and disturbing and surreal world of madness and death…