Bøger af Michael Smorenburg

In this tale of zealots, scientists and scoundrels, Michael Smorenburg has married tension-filled intrigue and drama with cutting-edge, unfolding science to produce a compelling geopolitical thriller. Conflict, suspicion and fear explode across the pages as science confronts religion in Carnarvon, a small, staunchly conservative farming community in post-Apartheid South Africa. The silent heavens stretched above the pious town are perfect for radio astronomy-the fracking bounty below the earth... irresistible... and the two cannot coexist-the local population want neither. When Dara, 17, half Indian and raised in England, arrives in the heartland of this Calvinist Bible belt-a place his astrophysicist mother has come to build the biggest infrastructure in the history of science, the $2.5-Billion SKA radio telescope-he becomes the lightening rod for the town's anger and suspicion of outsiders. Fracking and astronomy are not good bedfellows and Dara might just have lit the fuse. And so unfolds a cascade of controversy, agendas and surprising alliances. Based on actual unfolding events, A Trojan Affair is a contemporary geopolitical thriller where science, religion, politics, greed and racism collide, tearing a community apart and setting generations against one another.

LifeGames Corporation will immerse you into a storm of unscrupulous business shenanigans, emotional manipulation, rising paranormal terror and a view into a world of unfathomable capacity and unknown motives. Catherine Kaplan owns the ad agency that has just landed a contract with LifeGames Corporation, a company that dominates high technology and much more. LifeGames operates Immersive Virtual Reality simulation systems that are run by Artificial Intelligence. Each candidate begins their simulation with an automated hypnosis sequence that makes them believe that the simulation is reality. Governments, militaries and businesses have become so reliant on LifeGames to train their executives that the company is said to control the very future of mankind. The training technique has been fabulously profitable and Kenneth Torrington, founder and CEO of LifeGames, has become wealthy beyond imagining and powerful beyond grasp. But something sinister lies deep and hidden within the system that Torrington has built, something even beyond his imagining. When Torrington makes his play to levy the real price for granting Catherine her lucrative contract, they are plunged into a new realm of mutual destruction that threatens to pull everything down with it.

1794-Four hundred Mozambican slaves aboard the Portuguese slave ship São José Paquete de Africa, bound for Brazil, are shipwrecked at the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa. Of the two hundred who survive the tempest and catastrophe, a pair evade re-capture and re-sale the next day on the town's slave block. With the wild South Atlantic at their backs, before them soar the impassable cliffs of Table Mountain. Blocking the pair's coastal escape to the north lies Cape Town with its gallows and whipping post, to the south lies a British garrison, encamped to survey and defend the fledgling colony against the warring French. This is the tale of that couple's hope for nothing but freedom.