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David Alan Woods

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I worked as a writer and creative director at some of London’s top advertising agencies and wrote two series of children’s books before penning my debut sci-fi novel BRID: Fight or Flight. Written for all ages, it's a fast-paced, action-packed, sharp-witted story set in the post-apocalyptic London of 2417 in a future dominated by giant insects – the Sectz. The story follows twelve-year-old Xavier Wish on his journey to become one of a new breed of Hybrid Soldiers – the Bridz – where military scientists splice the human genome with the DNA of the most savage beasts. He's about to discover his powers – and his purpose – in a global species war that threatens mankind’s existence.

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	Brid: Fight or Flight 4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faintest of Tickles: A new anthology of cricket writing by David Pearl, Jonathan Margolis, Peter Wise it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

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David Woods said: " Just starting this second trilogy and the storytelling has changed form.

Instead of the single 'Slingblade' narrative of Darrow – we now also follow an additional 'trident' of threads through the storylines of Lyria, Lysander au Lune, and Ephraim ti ...more "

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Tolerance on a Kid-Friendly Wavelength. This is the second Black Hole Radio story I’ve read, and once again the author’s imagination doesn’t disappoint. In Ka’Azula, the young heroes are pulled into a vividly realised world where the colour “blue” is ...more
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Black Dust. Dark Tale. The Black Dust Rises by Răzvan-Gabriel Popa is a dark, atmospheric novella born of Icelandic geology and sword-and-sorcery tradition. For me, the first few pages immediately conjured up echoes of Robert E. Howard’s Conan tales – ...more
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“The silence was absolute.
It was so quiet in the laboratory; you could have heard a cell divide.”
― David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight

tags: beast-dna, dystopian, genetic-engineering, hard-sci-fi, hybrid-soldiers, military-school, monstrous-insects, post-apocalyptic-fiction, sharp-witted, species-war

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“Its scales refracted the early morning light, causing it to sparkle in tiny starbursts of every imaginable hue and colour.
Xavier gasped. Death had never looked more beautiful.”
― David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight

tags: beast-dna, dystopian, genetic-engineering, hybrid-soldiers, military-school, monstrous-insects, post-apocalyptic-fiction, sci-fi, sharp-witted, species-war

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“There was a Mosquito in the room.
And it was two metres long.”
― David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight

tags: beast-dna, dystopian, genetic-engineering, hybrid-soldiers, military-school, monstrous-insects, post-apocalyptic-fiction, sci-fi, species-war

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“There was a Mosquito in the room.
And it was two metres long.”
― David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight

tags: beast-dna, dystopian, genetic-engineering, hybrid-soldiers, military-school, monstrous-insects, post-apocalyptic-fiction, sci-fi, species-war

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“The silence was absolute.
It was so quiet in the laboratory; you could have heard a cell divide.”
― David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight

tags: beast-dna, dystopian, genetic-engineering, hard-sci-fi, hybrid-soldiers, military-school, monstrous-insects, post-apocalyptic-fiction, sharp-witted, species-war

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“She’s already drained something, Xavier realised.
A darker thought.
Or someone.”
― David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight

tags: beast-dna, dystopian, genetic-engineering, hybrid-soldiers, military-school, monstrous-insects, post-apocalyptic-fiction, sci-fi, sharp-witted, species-war

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“And, as the last rays of the westering sun poured over the Windsor Colony walls...
So did the living forest.”
― David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight