Bøger af Gil Hardwick

The three-part Podwarp series is a coming-of-age story initially set in a great techno-dystopian city called The Pod.Enclosed in an energy shield, it protects its podling inhabitants from the rough outside life of gauchos who work to feed the place.One podling boy, solxv98fg6, learns to turn his brain implant down and assert his own thoughts. He forgets to log into the System and the Pod thinks he's been processed.Head gaucho, Henri Babineau, finds him confused and lost, trailing him through the great city. He decides the best thing to do is smuggle him out to his home village through the warp gate.Once outside he changes the world.

This intriguing tale opens with an anthropologist working among traditional Aboriginal people of the vast Central Desert, when a white boy arrives suddenly in a truck with a dead body in the back and a fortune in gems stashed under the chassis.He can't remember who he is but the elders think he is clever. They are gathered for their initiation ceremonies so they decide to include him.Back in the city, in 'civilisation', there is a nationwide search underway for the lost son of a wealthy media dynasty.

After his two closest cousins die mysteriously, dreamy young Ned finds himself the last remaining heir to a vast outback cattle empire. He has to learn quickly to stand on his feet. Ambitious relatives are staking their own claim to his enormous land-holdings and the communities that live on them.Ned is not alone. Using Aboriginal magic and strength of character his family maintain the status quo and restore their lineage, but at great personal cost. Ned Collins inherits far more than property and wealth.

An only child and gifted musician growing up in a big city hotel managed by his hard-working parents, who relocate at short notice out onto the edge of the vast Central Desert where nothing is as he expects.On the cusp of puberty he meets the girl of his dreams and her vigilante, protective brother and family, but in the midst of conflict with corrupt police over the hotel license he loses his father.The shock of transition throws him off-balance. What is to become of him?A coming-of-age story in true form, but also a story of grief and loss, deep caring, healing and recovery.

The far distant future beyond 2150, beyond the climate apocalypse, beyond dystopian aftershock, in a decayed world stagnating from boredom and corruption, far out beyond civilisation the Crop Masters work incessantly to maintain food supplies.The protective high wall around the metropolis, built to protect the crops not the people, has been undermined by weather and lack of repairs. Holes begin to appear beneath it as the foundations wash away, and children start crawling out to play in the bush.Who are these children? Over a long period eventually their children, and then their grandchildren come out to play, until the first of them are now parents and grand-parents.Mike Barker finds himself with a serious problem on his hands, no longer able to guarantee food security as this naïve new hybrid population unknown to anybody finds its relentless way out onto the prohibited grain-belt.Something ancient stirs . . .

In this much requested sequel to 'Sit Down Time', the tale of gifted young musician Alan Cameron's coming-of-age continues into adolescence.What he wants to do on leaving school is go back into the hotel business, but failing that follow in his Uncle Ken's footsteps and study Geology, while his elders and mentors want him to teach music.But first he has to get into university. With girlfriends also coming into womanhood, life wasn't meant to be so easy.On top of it all, a skinny runaway waif attaches himself to him. Who is he, and how are they to deal with him?