Welcome to my store. I have a number of songs in MP3 format and the first two novels of a trilogy set in the far future.
Both novels are in print and e-book formats, with the e-books specially formatted for easy reading on the usual landscape-style monitors that come with PCs, laptops and notebooks.
Check out my site at www.futureriff.com for my blog, plus free short stories to show my writing prowess. I put a new SF story up about every month or so.
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We Never TouchWe Never Touch (multimedia download)
Download: FREE Rock love song - unrequited love. Who hasn't been there? Well, nuns, I guess, and Catholic priests and....
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EverydayEveryday (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rock - with a slight country feel. It's all about a love you can't let go even if you want to. It's a pity we can't have our cake and eat it too....
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A Good FriendA Good Friend (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Slow ballad - like all most of my guitar-based songs this has a slight country/folk feel.
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Print: $14.67 Titz wants a baby again and Gyro can't see the point. It was
bad enough when Fracture caused her to lose the first one.
And why now, when that born-again woman-hater is back in
their life? Gyro wants to help his latest victim, Elanora
Blakey, the wealthy centenarian, but Titz will only agree if
she can use Elanora's virgin regenerator to make a special
baby.
NISA agent, Matt Bolton, is God's gift to women and he's sure
he can turn Gyro back from the dark side. Titz hates him,
almost as much as she hates Gyro pretending to be
befuddled Elanora's long lost friend. But Yellow Peril needs
the money. Honest!
Matt knows Fracture is a man, even though his boss insists
the cyber terrorist is Pandora, daughter of missing foreign
scientist, Ikmael h'Mourhan. With Gyro's help, he can prove
it and uncover the president's dirty little secret. All he has to
do is control himself.
The delectable Carla has a secret too…
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FractureFracture (e-book)
Download: $3.00 Titz wants a baby again and Gyro can't see the point. It was
bad enough when Fracture caused her to lose the first one.
And why now, when that born-again woman-hater is back in
their life? Gyro wants to help his latest victim, Elanora
Blakey, the wealthy centenarian, but Titz will only agree if
she can use Elanora's virgin regenerator to make a special
baby.
NISA agent, Matt Bolton, is God's gift to women and he's sure
he can turn Gyro back from the dark side. Titz hates him,
almost as much as she hates Gyro pretending to be
befuddled Elanora's long lost friend. But Yellow Peril needs
the money. Honest!
Matt knows Fracture is a man, even though his boss insists
the cyber terrorist is Pandora, daughter of missing foreign
scientist, Ikmael h'Mourhan. With Gyro's help, he can prove
it and uncover the president's dirty little secret. All he has to
do is control himself.
The delectable Carla has a secret too…
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All I WantAll I Want (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Slow ballad - like most of my guitar-based songs this has a slight country/folk feel.
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AstrayAstray (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Techno Dance - this is an experiment in a different style of music for me. It was fun, but the production was quite demanding. Even though I did the vocals, I think a female vocalist would suit it better. Trouble is, my feminine side and me aren't talking.
I swear ... I wasn't trying to touch you!
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Don't Curse MeDon't Curse Me (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Up Tempo Country/Rock - this is an offbeat attempt at a happy-sounding song. Ah well, when your head is screwed on back-to-front, what do you expect?
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DreamDream (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rock ballad - vocal has been processed to have a dreamy quality to it and the overall song has a slight ethereal feel. I wrote this while watching the Olympics in 2004 and seeing how much the athletes had to endure to succeed.
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I Don't CareI Don't Care (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Teenage Anthem with an 80s/90s feel. There's a bit of grunge as well as a niggle of punk just to liven it up a bit.
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I Hate The BanksI Hate The Banks (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rockabilly - I think the title's quite succinct.
Fees? I friggin' hate them. They're a license to print money. You walk into a bank with a gun and demand money and they throw you in jail, but a CEO creates a new account fee that rips off the bank's customers and brings in millions of dollars and he gets a hefty bonus and a payrise. It's theft and this fun song says it all.
So why aren't the bastards in jail?
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In Your EyeIn Your Eye (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rock - gritty song about the vagaries of life and love and self-confidence.
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Lost In The MomentLost In The Moment (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Country Ballad - a homage to all those old singer/songwriters who inspired the next generation of artists. Guys like Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, the Beatles and those even further back that we we used to sing along with and play air guitar....
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New MedicationNew Medication (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rock with folk feel - this is a fun song about the joys of pharmaceutical drugs. I saw a documentary or read an article - I can't remember which - that was criticizing the misuse by doctors in over-prescribing drugs and the role the drug companies played. But amongst all the negative examples, they gave a couple of positive interviews for balance. And that made me think, it can't be all bad....
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New SurpriseNew Surprise (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rock Ballad - this song is about searching for belief in a world filled with people who all think they have the answer.
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Run AwayRun Away (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rock Ballad - this song is about facing up to one’s fears.
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Rising StarsRising Stars (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Pop/Rock - it's more of a ballad with a haunting feel. This song is about the rock star life style. I've skipped the good part and gone straight to the aftermath.
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Same OldSame Old (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Rock - a song about how some things never change. We're supposed to learn from our mistakes and yet history still keeps repeating....
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Top Secret FilesTop Secret Files (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Habanera (Cuban) feel - this is a song about governments, big business and large organizations and their dirty secrets. It's an ode to whistleblowers, the unsung heroes of our age.
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UnexpectedUnexpected (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Pop - a fun song (well I think so) about how things can get out of hand. In fact, I took the song, "All I Want To Do Is Have Some Fun" as a starting point and then went off on a tangent.
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What We SowWhat We Sow (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Pop ballad with a strong piano presence - a haunting song about how life is a river that sweeps us along and we can do nothing to control it. www.futureriff.com
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Download: $3.00 Rodan Tyson has wasted two lifetimes studying the hated h’Slaitiarr. But now, at the start of his third, he is at last over his obsession with finding out about his father -- a man who betrayed him by betraying Earth while a prisoner of war. Only the h’Slaitiarr know and they want nothing to do with Rodan. And yet, in their own enigmatic way, they want something from him.
When a h’Slaitiarr is murdered, Rodan is seconded by Wandar Kryzansky, a sexy control-freak, to help investigate, but after two attempts on his life, he wants out. That is, until he discovers Aisev is involved.
That damned h’Slaitiarr knows the truth and maybe this time Rodan can make it talk.
Accompanied by Princess, his jealous robot, Rodan grabs his chance. There is a woman, Marla Brown, working with Aisev and she holds the key. But there is something about her that intrigues him. Now, if only Princess would stop interferring...
Book Two
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Print: $14.17 Rodan Tyson has wasted two lifetimes studying the hated h’Slaitiarr. But now, at the start of his third, he is at last over his obsession with finding out about his father -- a man who betrayed him by betraying Earth while a prisoner of war. Only the h’Slaitiarr know and they want nothing to do with Rodan. And yet, in their own enigmatic way, they want something from him.
When a h’Slaitiarr is murdered, Rodan is seconded by Wandar Kryzansky, a sexy control-freak, to help investigate, but after two attempts on his life, he wants out. That is, until he discovers Aisev is involved.
That damned h’Slaitiarr knows the truth and maybe this time Rodan can make it talk.
Accompanied by Princess, his jealous robot, Rodan grabs his chance. There is a woman, Marla Brown, working with Aisev and she holds the key. But there is something about her that intrigues him. Now, if only Princess would stop interferring...
Book Two
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Download: $3.00 Rodan Tyson is no longer alive in this universe. So says Aldar, the weird robot with a curious desire to molest any human he can get his manipulators on. And so begins a year to forget as Wandar Kryzansky's life spirals out of control. With Anil's loss at the hands of Sandra Mandora, she fights against madness as she seeks her revenge.
And what about Rodan's best friend, that odd genius, Robert Burton? Why does he have to keep saving her life?
And why has he come to Kharwaisheeyarrn? Is it to extract the ultimate revenge on the h'Slaitiarr for Rodan's death, as Wil Alvaro fears? Or is it to resurrect Rodan?
Except Rodan is alive and she must take Rob Burton and Mandora's head to Arcadus to find out why he is a psychopath running berserk. But the only one who may know the answer is Aldar.
Now, if only she can find him....
It's the eyes ... the eyes....
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Print: $14.19 Rodan Tyson is no longer alive in this universe. So says Aldar, the weird robot with a curious desire to molest any human he can get his manipulators on. And so begins a year to forget as Wandar Kryzansky's life spirals out of control. With Anil's loss at the hands of Sandra Mandora, she fights against madness as she seeks her revenge.
And what about Rodan's best friend, that odd genius, Robert Burton? Why does he have to keep saving her life?
And why has he come to Kharwaisheeyarrn? Is it to extract the ultimate revenge on the h'Slaitiarr for Rodan's death, as Wil Alvaro fears? Or is it to resurrect Rodan?
Except Rodan is alive and she must take Rob Burton and Mandora's head to Arcadus to find out why he is a psychopath running berserk. But the only one who may know the answer is Aldar.
Now, if only she can find him....
It's the eyes ... the eyes....
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Download: $3.00 Everyone wants to run Rob Burton’s life. Conrad Bressart, CEO of Unique Farewells wants the robot psychopath, Aldar, fixed and he only needs to use one word to make Rob comply — Princess. Samantha Jervois won’t be talked out of her wacky idea for Immortals Inc and she’ll bite to get her way, and Sifour wants him to get Aldar on board the Stagira to stop theinterstellar ship from being hijacked.
General Wandar Kryzansky could help, but she can’t keep her hands off Pierot, that pesky junior officer with a ridiculous conspiracy theory and who reminds her of someone she desperately wants to forget.... But when Wandar discovers Mandora is alive and serving on the Stagira, her universe is thrown upside down. And when Merrl Dyson wants to repay her....
The Interstellar Alliance is in danger and Rob must help Wandar stop history repeating with fatal consequences, but first he has to survive a termination party where he and Samantha are the guests of honour.
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Print: $13.92 Download: $3.00 Everyone wants to run Rob Burton’s life. Conrad Bressart, CEO of Unique Farewells wants the robot psychopath, Aldar, fixed and he only needs to use one word to make Rob comply — Princess. Samantha Jervois won’t be talked out of her wacky idea for Immortals Inc and she’ll bite to get her way, and Sifour wants him to get Aldar on board the Stagira to stop theinterstellar ship from being hijacked.
General Wandar Kryzansky could help, but she can’t keep her hands off Pierot, that pesky junior officer with a ridiculous conspiracy theory and who reminds her of someone she desperately wants to forget.... But when Wandar discovers Mandora is alive and serving on the Stagira, her universe is thrown upside down. And when Merrl Dyson wants to repay her....
The Interstellar Alliance is in danger and Rob must help Wandar stop history repeating with fatal consequences, but first he has to survive a termination party where he and Samantha are the guests of honour.
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Download: FREE This is a collection of the science fiction stories I put up on my web site futureriff.com. They're completely FREE! That's right! FREE!!!!
I hope you like them enough to want to buy my novels. My e-novels are in this format and a bargain at only $3 each. C'mon, help a starving writer.
Well I would be if I didn't each so much....
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TimeTime (multimedia download)
Download: $0.79 Time takes the styles from Praise You and Porcelain and warps them.
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Wayne’s Blog
2006 Nov 19 On Writing Science Fiction Spaceships--where would SF be without them? But so often, they are treated as an afterthought, especially when it comes to FTL or faster-than-light travel. We’ve all seen Star Trek with warp drives, or hyperdrives as in Star Wars, Stargate and a myriad of SF movies and novels, and which are essentially the same in that the passengers hop into their ship, flip a switch or press a button and hey presto! They’re suddenly traveling faster than light to amazing new worlds. Except for the time it takes to travel from Zaccarus IV to Beligro Minor, say, the only other way they affect the plot of a story is if they run out of fuel or the engines break down. Other than that, little interest is given to how FTL flight can affect world building and thus the plot in general. Oh sure, you get the occasional TV plot where some genius modifies an engine, or a new experimental engine is tried out and something goes wrong so that the intrepid crew is stranded light-years in the middle of nowhere or in some strange dimensional space or a parallel universe and have to find some way to get back. But these are all about the unexpected happening and the characters reacting to that. They are not the everyday experiences that one might expect. Which brings us to me. I like to think up the technology and science behind the drives in the spaceships in my novels — both sub-light and supra-light drives. The reason I do that is because I want to know how the technology works and hence how it affects everyday life in the universe I’m building (and besides, I have nothing better do with this useless grey matter in my head.) This is an excerpt from my blog entry: Faster-Than-Light - Use It To Build Worlds. I go on with an example of what I came up with for The Rodan Trilogy and I'll put in another example from another trilogy I'm writing, which is based on a completely different idea. 
On Writing Songs You might have noticed that I have fourteen songs listed for sale. That makes my storefront quite crowded. But don't worry, I have another three about ready, one of which I'm planning to make free, just as soon as I redo the vocals and get a take I'm happy with. On my website I talk about the difficulties writing songs, but the real difficulty is in marketing them. Putting a pile of songs on the internet is one thing, but getting people to find them and garnering their interest enough so they fork out some money to buy them. People like you (Get the hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink)  Okay, so this is about as sophisticated as my marketing technique has developed so far. Curses!  And I thought it would be so easy.... 
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