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What happened to the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago?They had larger brains and were more intelligent. Why did they disappear?When the President of Brazil begins a project to build a highway through the middle of the Amazon he knew that he was going to provoke a response – little did he envisage what earth-shattering results it would end up becoming.This story delves into the very psyche of humanity and how people might respond when confronted with an alien invasion from a superior race. A Science Fiction story like no other.

God’s Bolt: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781092713597: Books

Helen Southcote is looking for a purpose to life through her Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence work on the United Nations Space Station when she watches the Earth destroyed by an asteroid. What can she do next?

Reawakening: The Sequel to God’s Bolt: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781094954585: Books

This is the sequel to God’s Bolt.Helen Southcote, the sole survivor of a stricken Earth, is alone on the Space Station.This is the tale of her journey through space and time towards Tau Sagittarii, 122 light years away.This is also the story of the aliens who live in the system around Tau Sagittarii and their reaction to the destruction of Earth.After dealing with the rigours of isolation, mental illness and hopelessness there is the hope of awakening. Then there are the questions about the purpose of life, altruism and the nature of consciousness all in the course of an epic adventure.

New Eden: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798637512867: Books

How do you solve the problem of a world that has been ruined with overpopulation?What part do a small group of genetically mutated children have in the future of mankind?How might an eccentric genetics engineer be involved?New Eden tells the story of dystopian disaster and unlikely renewal.

Star: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798647632906: Books

It’s the sixties – the three thousand one hundred and sixties. The Federation is in conflict with the Confederation. The Troman war rages. There is a civil rights issue with the Androvians. Youth all across the galaxy are in revolt. Rock Music, on an intergalactic scale, is the medium of the rebellion. Zargos Ecstasy and the Terminal Brain Grope are providing the impetus for the rebellion. Zargos, a larger than life character based on Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Jagger, Jim Morrison and Bowie, struts the stage, putting his poems to music and rousing the spacefreaks to seek social justice. If you lived through the sixties you’ll recognise it all.

Quantum Fever eBook : Forsythe, Ron: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

The System is made up of thousands of planets housing trillions of people in tiny doms arranged in tiers. The people are fed drugs to keep them happy and are plugged into immersive tridee.The Consortium are a group of wealthy capitalists who live above the metropolis in floating mansions.The name of the game is expansion and profit. The Quships cross quantum space in search of planets to either colonise or plunder for resources in order to maintain the system.Quantum Fever is a disease that affects people who jump the weird reaches of quantum space. Was Tahsin Roeg suffering from Quantum Fever or were the Consortium seeking to control her?What of the alien planet she discovers?Were the Primitives going to achieve their dream?

Schizoid: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798630523839: Books

The sequel to Quantum Fever. Three hundred years have passed. The aliens are ruining the planet Terra and are on the brink of war. Children of the Primitives on planet Hope are rebelling. President Woud of The System is angered. The Consortium is stirring up trouble………

Green: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798648134003: Books

A Sci-fi novel set in the distant future.Elspin is born without a nervous system; a brain with no connection to the world. She is locked within her dreams. She should have withered into nothing but against all the odds she prospered.Politicians and Business-people are at each others throats. The world is in crisis. The Greens are split into factions. Passions are explosive.They find a way of contacting Elspin. What happens when universes clash?

Will the world survive?

The Gordian Fetish: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781981947973: Books

How important is consciousness? How rare is it in the universe? It is incredibly rare but not many people here on Earth seem to care about that. But the Gordian’s do – they value it – they seek it out and look to protect it. They have an institute funded by their government that is geared to the conservation of endangered alien sentient beings.Unfortunately a new Gordian leader has come along who believes in austerity. He is threatening to close the institute.Humans are sentient and have a modicum of intelligence. They can hardly be termed endangered though. There are 4000 billion of them. But they are incredibly interesting. They have sex. They also have politics and religion. They pretend to be clever and civilised but they are nowhere near as clever and civilised as they think they are.Most Gordian’s are intrigued by humans. They find sex astounding and humans cute.

Being cute and having sex might just be their saving graces.

Conexion: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781729561782: Books

In the future it is still all about power.General Secretary Rheen holds the reins but does he hold the power?What about the shadowy Consortium who supply the money to get him elected?The separatists who are prepared to use violence?The Unification Movement who would bring the opposition together?Or the people who democratically vote?What of the stranded Starship?And what of the new drug Conexion that opens genetic memories to unlock an unexpected past?The new Gaia religion?Or the three massive spherical objects heading for earth?

How will it all come to a conclusion?

The Pornography Wars: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798814934413: Books

The Pornography Wars takes political satire and social comment (with a liberal dash of humour) into a new dimension.
Sex is the essence of everything.
Is human history contrived by aliens?
Are we in a film set for an alien pornographic soap opera?
Is all human culture nothing more than an alien psych-master’s program?
What happens when the aliens argue over the future of pornography on their tridee sets?
What is going to happen to the future of human beings?

Farm 703 – The Human Project: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798634914367: Books

Farm 703 where humans are controlled by bacteria.

Farm 703 where we are a project created by the Farm Manager.

Farm 703 where there is a move to terminate the human project.

Farm 703 where Head Office will decide on the fate of humanity.

They are allowing me to write this story. They do not think you will believe it.

Opher Goodwin’s 100 Essential reads!

Posted on February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 by Opher

I had a bit of time yesterday so I wrote a list. I like lists. I was thinking about all the books that I’ve enjoyed reading. I thought I’d list my best 50. Of course that didn’t work. There were books I could not possibly leave out. So it soon blossomed to a 100.

I had to limit myself so I just did the novels (A few aren’t novels) and I missed out the Sci-fi and the Rock books (I might do them at a later date!)

It’s not comprehensive. Some writers like Julian Barnes, Sebastian Faulks, Jaspar Fforde, John Fowles, Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Haruki Murakami, I like everything they’ve written – but that would make for a boring list, wouldn’t it?

Some that I love I know I will have missed off. (I will kick myself).

Anyway – this gives you a glimpse. I can’t imagine a world without reading. A man who reads lives a thousand lives. I have. I get lost in books. They’ve brought me more pleasure than anything else – as much as music and sex!!

So which fabulous writers have I missed out? Who would be on your list?

Opher Goodwin’s 100 Essential Reads:

1	Haruki Murakami – IQ84
2	Jack Kerouac – On the Road
3	Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
4	Ken Kessey – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
5	John Fowles – The Magus
6	Kasuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
7	John Steinbeck – East of Eden
8	Robert Sheckley – Journey Beyond Tomorrow
9	Philip K Dick – A Scanner Darkly
10	George Orwell – 1984
11	Allen Ginsberg – Howl
12	D H Lawrence – Lady Chatterleys Lover
13	William Burrough – The Naked Lunch
14	Isaac Asimov – Foundation Series
15	Lynne Reed Banks – The L-Shaped Room
16	Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
17	Allan Sillitoe – The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner
18	Andrea Levy – Small Island
19	Nelson Mandela – the Long Walk to Freedom
20	Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
21	Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
22	Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong
23	Paul Auster – New York Trilogy
24	Philip Roth – American Pastoral
25	Kurt Vonnegut Jnr – Cat’s Cradle
26	Julian Barnes – The Noise of Time
27	Iain Banks – Whit
28	Iain McEwan – Atonement
29	Jonathan Franzen – Freedom
30	Ernest Hemmingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
31	Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
32	D H Lawrence – Women In Love
33	Stephen King – The Stand
34	Jaspar Fforde – First Among Sequels
35	Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
36	William Golding – The Inheritors
37	Gunter Gras – The Tin Drum
38	Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
39	Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
40	John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
41	Ken Kessey – Sometimes A Great Notion
42	Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
43	Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore
44	John Le Carre – The Constant Gardener
45	Nikos Kazantzakis – Zorba The Greek
46	Richard Brautigan – Trout Fishing in America
47	Robert Heinlein – Stranger In a Strange Land
48	Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
49	Will Self – The Book of Dave
50	Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
51	Hilary Mantel – Bring Up The Bodies
52	John Fowles – The Collector
53	Iain McEwan – The Cement Garden
54	Henry Miller – The Tropic of Capricorn
55	Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
56	J D Salinger – Catcher in the Rye
57	George Orwell – Keep the Aspidistras Flying
58	Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
59	Joseph Heller – Catch 22
60	J R R Tolkein – Lord of the Rings
61	Franz Kafka – The Trial
62	Alice Walker – The Colour Purple
63	Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
64	Douglas Adams – The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
65	Terry Pratchett – The Colour of Magic
66	Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
67	Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
68	Erich Marie Ramarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
69	Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
70	Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene
71	Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion
72	Patti Smith – Just Kids
73	Alexander Solshenezshin – A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
74	Maya Angelou – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
75	Ben Okri – The Famished Road
76	Alexander Solshenezshin – The Gulag Archipelago
77	Heny Miller – The Air-conditioned Nightmare
78	Mezz Mezzrow – Really The Blues
79	Robert Harris – Ghost
80	Desmond Morris – The Naked Ape
81	Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens
82	Yuval Noah Harari – Homo deus
83	Owen Jones – Chavs The Demonising of the Working Class
84	Owen Jones – The Establishment and how they get away with it
85	Margaret Atwood – Maddadam
86	Kasuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
87	Charles Bukowski – Ham on Rye
88	Herman Hesse – Steppenwolf
89	Desmond Morris – The Human Zoo
90	Jane Goodall – In the Shadow of Man
91	Dian Fossey – Gorillas in the Mist
92	James Baldwin – Another Country
93	Philip Roth – I Married a Communist
94	Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
95	Pat Barker – Regeneration
96	Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
97	Arthur C Clark – 2001 A Space Odyssey
98	Chris Mullins – A Very British Coup
99	Alexei Sayle – Stalin Ate My Homework
100	David Storey – This Sporting Life

Opher Goodwin’s (AKA Ron Forsythe) My Best Sci-Fi novels at very reasonable prices

Posted on July 22, 2023July 22, 2023 by Opher

All my books are priced at lowest possible prices affording a slim profit. Here is a list of some of my top Sci-Fi books (all available in paperback or kindle and some in Hardback):

New Eden Politicians mess it up. Can there be a new beginning?	How do you solve the problem of a world that has been ruined with overpopulation? What part do a small group of genetically mutated children have in the future of mankind? How might an eccentric genetics engineer be involved? New Eden tells the story of dystopian disaster and unlikely renewal.	New Eden: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798637512867: Books
God’s Bolt The Earth is destroyed but one person lives	Helen Southcote is looking for a purpose to life through her Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence work on the United Nations Space Station when she watches the Earth destroyed by an asteroid. What can she do next?	God’s Bolt: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781092713597: Books
Reawakening Where is she headed? And what awaits her?	This is the sequel to God’s Bolt. Helen Southcote, the sole survivor of a stricken Earth, is alone on the Space Station. This is the tale of her journey through space and time towards Tau Sagittarii, 122 light years away. This is also the story of the aliens who live in the system around Tau Sagittarii and their reaction to the destruction of Earth. After dealing with the rigours of isolation, mental illness and hopelessness there is the hope of awakening. Then there are the questions about the purpose of life, altruism and the nature of consciousness all in the course of an epic adventure.	Reawakening: The Sequel to God’s Bolt: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781094954585: Books
Neanderthal The Neanderthals still live. They are highly advanced and they aren’t happy!	What happened to the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago? They had larger brains and were more intelligent. Why did they disappear? When the President of Brazil begins a project to build a highway through the middle of the Amazon he knew that he was going to provoke a response – little did he envisage what earth-shattering results it would end up becoming. This story delves into the very psyche of humanity and how people might respond when confronted with an alien invasion from a superior race. A Science Fiction story like no other.	Neanderthal: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798393554262: Books
The Pornography Wars A futuristic pornographic film set	The Pornography Wars takes political satire and social comment (with a liberal dash of humour) into a new dimension. Sex is the essence of everything. Is human history contrived by aliens? Are we in a film set for an alien pornographic soap opera? Is all human culture nothing more than an alien psych-master’s program? What happens when the aliens argue over the future of pornography on their tridee sets? What is going to happen to the future of human beings?	The Pornography Wars: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798814934413: Books
Unintended Consequences The sequel	The politics and satire continues as our humans are set free from control and find themselves in a very different world. While the aliens continue to argue about the future of pornography and the sentience of human beings, life for the unshackled humans is becoming very grim. In the tridee film-making studio everything is fraught. The populist Director General, with her advisers, is being devious. The Minister for Arts is stoned out of her mind. A campaign to give humans rights is being fought. Will the humans find themselves controlled and back in the sex movie, or will they be free?	Unintended Consequences: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798356009471: Books
Star Star is a future sixties	It’s the sixties – the three thousand one hundred and sixties. The Federation is in conflict with the Confederation. The Troman war rages. There is a civil rights issue with the Androvians. Youth all across the galaxy are in revolt. Rock Music, on an intergalactic scale, is the medium of the rebellion.Zargos Ecstasy and the Terminal Brain Grope are providing the impetus for the rebellion.Zargos, a larger than life character based on Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Jagger, Jim Morrison and Bowie, struts the stage, putting his poems to music and rousing the spacefreaks to seek social justice. If you lived through the sixties you’ll recognise it all.	Star: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798647632906: Books
Green Green is a different universe	A Sci-fi novel set in the distant future. Elspin is born without a nervous system; a brain with no connection to the world. She is locked within her dreams. She should have withered into nothing but against all the odds she prospered. Politicians and Business-people are at each other’s throats. The world is in crisis. The Greens are split into factions. Passions are explosive. They find a way of contacting Elspin. What happens when universes clash? Will the world survive?	Green: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798648134003: Books
Conexion Conexion is the new drug!	In the future it is still all about power. General Secretary Rheen holds the reins but does he hold the power? What about the shadowy Consortium who supply the money to get him elected? The separatists who are prepared to use violence? The Unification Movement who would bring the opposition together? Or the people who democratically vote? What of the stranded Starship? And what of the new drug Conexion that opens genetic memories to unlock an unexpected past? The new Gaia religion? Or the three massive spherical objects heading for earth? How will it all come to a conclusion?	Conexion: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781729561782: Books
Quantum Fever Capitalism gone mad	The System is made up of thousands of planets housing trillions of people in tiny doms arranged in tiers. The people are fed drugs to keep them happy and are plugged into immersive tridee. The Consortium are a group of wealthy capitalists who live above the metropolis in floating mansions. The name of the game is expansion and profit. The Quships cross quantum space in search of planets to either colonise or plunder for resources in order to maintain the system. Quantum Fever is a disease that affects people who jump the weird reaches of quantum space. Was Tahsin Roeg suffering from Quantum Fever or were the Consortium seeking to control her? What of the alien planet she discovers? Were the Primitives going to achieve their dream?	Quantum Fever: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781711327372: Books
Schizoid The consortium are still at it.	The sequel to Quantum Fever. Three hundred years have passed. The aliens are ruining the planet Terra and are on the brink of war. Children of the Primitives on planet Hope are rebelling. President Woud of The System is angered. The Consortium is stirring up trouble………	Schizoid: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798630523839: Books
The Gordian Fetish Humour deployed to show the flaws in society. Will humans be saved?	How important is consciousness? How rare is it in the universe? It is incredibly rare but not many people here on Earth seem to care about that. But the Gordian’s do – they value it – they seek it out and look to protect it. They have an institute funded by their government that is geared to the conservation of endangered alien sentient beings. Unfortunately a new Gordian leader has come along who believes in austerity. He is threatening to close the institute. Humans are sentient and have a modicum of intelligence. They can hardly be termed endangered though. There are 4000 billion of them. But they are incredibly interesting. They have sex. They also have politics and religion. They pretend to be clever and civilised but they are nowhere near as clever and civilised as they think they are. Most Gordian’s are intrigued by humans. They find sex astounding and humans cute. Being cute and having sex might just be their saving graces.	The Gordian Fetish: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9781981947973: Books
Farm 703 – The Human Project Are we being farmed?	Farm 703 where humans are controlled by bacteria. Farm 703 where we are a project created by the Farm Manager. Farm 703 where there is a move to terminate the human project. Farm 703 where Head Office will decide on the fate of humanity. They are allowing me to write this story. They do not think you will believe it.	Farm 703 – The Human Project: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798634914367: Books

Thank you for looking. Why not try one or two? And please leave a review! Cheers Opher PS – I have three new Sci-Fi novels sitting on my computer. I am busy looking for a suitable publisher or agent. Anybody??

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