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Born at the tail end of Apollo and growing up on a diet of Star Wars and Star Trek, Paul Grover became obsessed with all things space at an early age.

Realising he was not cut out for the rigours of astronaut training, he decided that if he couldn’t boldly go to space, he’d write about it instead. The process of creating and exploring strange new worlds on paper soon became an obsession.

After numerous false starts, too many energy drinks and far too little sleep, his first book Ark of Souls was published in 2017. The Vale series now spans several volumes.

While he proudly describes himself as a nerd, Paul has made it his mission to make sci-fi accessible to readers of all backgrounds. He populates his galaxy with relatable misfits. For some,
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The Vale Series - How many books will it be?

This is a really common question. I get asked it a lot.

Book 3 is at an advanced stage, I aim to commence work on book 4 in late December.

I have a roadmap of where we're heading and I know where we'll end up. I know the fate of all our main characters.

I look at the first three books as the stories that build our everyday characters into heroes, anti-heroes and villains.

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“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
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“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
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