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Richard Stokes is the award-winning producer of UK television shows 'Broadchurch,' 'Torchwood,' and 'Silk.' After a successful career making other people's stories come to life, he felt it was high time to tell his own. He has written for television including episodes of 'Law & Order: UK' and his pilot script 'Invisible' was shortlisted for the 2018 C21 new writer's session in London.

His screenplay, 'Galileo' won the inaugural Filmmatic science-fiction screenplay competition and earned him a place on the Screencraft screenwriting fellowship in 2023.

After many kind words from broadcasters but no cigar, he turned the story of a police team on Mars into the first of a proposed series of crime novels – 'Galileo Storm'.

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	Galileo Storm (The Galileo Thrillers Book 1) 4.44 avg rating — 16 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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5 star concept but not entirely satisfactory in its execution.
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Extraordinary psychological narrative of a catastrophiser in a Kafkaesque world.
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