Neanderthal – A Sci-fi tale that leaves you thinking.

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The rewrite takes you deeper!

What happened to the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago? They had larger brains. Superior cognition. Yet they vanished.
Now, a bold infrastructure project—an Amazonian highway spearheaded by Brazil’s president—triggers a chain reaction that uncovers a buried truth. Something ancient. Something engineered.
This revised edition of Neanderthal fuses evolutionary enigma with ecological urgency and first-contact tension. As humanity confronts an intelligence rooted in our own genetic past, the story probes deep questions: What defines intelligence? What survives? And what happens when the dominant species is no longer us?
Hard science fiction meets psychological realism in a speculative thriller that challenges everything we thought we knew about extinction, evolution, and the future of our species.
“A cerebral, chilling vision of humanity’s forgotten past—and its possible future.”

Neanderthal: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron, Goodwin, Opher: 9798267828468: Books

The Judgement is Here!! Sci-fi with a social edge

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The Judgement is coming.
They have arrived—beings from beyond the stars, emissaries of a vast Federation that spans the galaxy. Their mission is not conquest, but assessment. Humanity stands trial.
Will we be welcomed into the Federation as equals… or condemned to extinction?
Our record is damning: centuries of war, cruelty, racism, and hate. Yet there is another side—love, harmony, creativity, and the fragile spark of compassion that refuses to die.
The Judge is on her way. She will weigh our worth. She will decide our fate.
The future of the human race hangs in the balance.

I write to entertain and make people think. After a good read I like to think my readers go away with something worth pondering.

While this book may have a familiar theme it is certainly written in a very different manner. Read, digest and ruminate.

Judgement: Amazon.co.uk: Forsythe, Ron: 9798267858489: Books

This is my latest novel. I wanted a new slant on a familiar theme. What do you think?

This is Ron Forsythe the Sci-Fi Writer

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This is Ron …

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Ron Forsythe has been a Science teacher and Science Fiction writer all his adult life. He tells his stories about real issues – power, greed, corruption, inequality, overpopulation and the environment – in a futuristic setting. He also delves into the philosophy of why we are here and the nature of our reality.

Ron likes the ideas of fairness and equality, puts a lot of faith in love and marvels at the wonders of nature. The rest is in his books.

Ron’s Sci-fi heroes are Iain M Banks, Philip K Dick, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr, Isaac Asimov and Margaret Atwood.

He now lives in Yorkshire, reading, writing and travelling.

Life is good.

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My Sci-Fi novels – A brave, new Indie Sci-fi writer – Please take a look.

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I have set up a website to highlight the range of my books. You will find descriptions, covers and extracts as well as reviews. Please take a look.

I’m a scientist. My Sci-fi is packed with sound science.

I am a socially aware person who has worked in education all my career. My work is grounded in relevant social, political and philosophical ideas that are pertinent to today.

Please take a look at the unique ideas I have based the plots of my novels around. I don’t do fantasy or space opera. I deal with ideas.

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The Cabal – An unpublished Sci-Fi classic

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It is the year 3960 of the System – a sprawling confederation of planets spanning hundreds of thousands of worlds.
Human beings have come a long way through space and time but nothing much changes.
This is a tale of war, political intrigue, greed, power and conspiracy.
The Cabal are a ruthless group of the wealthiest people that have ever lived. They have everything but they want more and are prepared to do anything to achieve their goal, even destroy worlds.
The President is equally selfish and greedy and is in their pay.
A young hacker is all that stands between the might of the evil establishment, who are busy plotting a war that would kill billions, and a brighter, fairer future.

Farther from the Sun – now available in paperback

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Lives and Values

Something completely different!

My new novel – Farther from the Sun – is now available in paperback.

It is a mosaic of a novel – part anecdotes, part commentary, part homage, telling the story of two lives and a relationship. A commentary on life and values.

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Ron Forsythe – Home of thought-provoking Sci-fi

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