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Thy Kingdom Come
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- GenresScience Fiction
153 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2002
About the author
Simon Morden
44 books290 followersAka S.J. Morden
Dr. Simon Morden, B.Sc. (Hons., Sheffield) Ph.D (Newcastle) is a bona fide rocket scientist, having degrees in geology and planetary geophysics. Unfortunately, that sort of thing doesn’t exactly prepare a person for the big wide world of work: he’s been a school caretaker, admin assistant, and PA to a financial advisor. He’s now employed as a part-time teaching assistant at a Gateshead primary school, which he combines with his duties as a house-husband, attempting to keep a crumbling pile of Edwardian masonry upright, wrangling his two children and providing warm places to sleep for the family cats.
His not-so-secret identity as journeyman writer started when he sold the short story Bell, Book and Candle to an anthology, and a chaotic mix of science fiction, fantasy and horror followed. Heart came out to critical acclaim, and Another War was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award, but with The Lost Art, things suddenly got serious. Contracts. Agents. Deadlines. Responsibility. Scary stuff. The Lost Art was subsequently a finalist for the Catalyst Award for best teen fiction.
As well as a writer, he’s been the editor of the British Science Fiction Association's writers’ magazine Focus, a judge for the Arthur C Clarke awards, and is a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Arts Festival on matters of faith and fiction. In 2009, he was in the winning team for the Rolls Royce Science Prize.
Dr. Simon Morden, B.Sc. (Hons., Sheffield) Ph.D (Newcastle) is a bona fide rocket scientist, having degrees in geology and planetary geophysics. Unfortunately, that sort of thing doesn’t exactly prepare a person for the big wide world of work: he’s been a school caretaker, admin assistant, and PA to a financial advisor. He’s now employed as a part-time teaching assistant at a Gateshead primary school, which he combines with his duties as a house-husband, attempting to keep a crumbling pile of Edwardian masonry upright, wrangling his two children and providing warm places to sleep for the family cats.
His not-so-secret identity as journeyman writer started when he sold the short story Bell, Book and Candle to an anthology, and a chaotic mix of science fiction, fantasy and horror followed. Heart came out to critical acclaim, and Another War was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award, but with The Lost Art, things suddenly got serious. Contracts. Agents. Deadlines. Responsibility. Scary stuff. The Lost Art was subsequently a finalist for the Catalyst Award for best teen fiction.
As well as a writer, he’s been the editor of the British Science Fiction Association's writers’ magazine Focus, a judge for the Arthur C Clarke awards, and is a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Arts Festival on matters of faith and fiction. In 2009, he was in the winning team for the Rolls Royce Science Prize.
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July 23, 2015
This is an interesting set of linked short stories that gives the background the Metrozone universe and the religious-zelot apocalypse that caused Europe to have a number of atomic bombs explode throughout major cities.
There are a series of stories set in the US in a regional city called Planeview and we see the rising tide of the reconstuctionists through the eyes of a young man whose family is directly impacted by the new political views.
Linked in between these stories are snippets of the events that lead the various atomic bombs going off, though despite this the zelots that caused all the destruction remain rather shadowy figures - you would think all the bombs being done by people in name of religion would cause people to turn away from those faiths in disgust but the opposite seems to have happened in these stories. Petrovich and Madeline only appear in one story each late in the books.
You can download this book on the author's website or via the link on goodreads and its worth getting for a background to the Petrovich universe stories.
There are a series of stories set in the US in a regional city called Planeview and we see the rising tide of the reconstuctionists through the eyes of a young man whose family is directly impacted by the new political views.
Linked in between these stories are snippets of the events that lead the various atomic bombs going off, though despite this the zelots that caused all the destruction remain rather shadowy figures - you would think all the bombs being done by people in name of religion would cause people to turn away from those faiths in disgust but the opposite seems to have happened in these stories. Petrovich and Madeline only appear in one story each late in the books.
You can download this book on the author's website or via the link on goodreads and its worth getting for a background to the Petrovich universe stories.
August 14, 2013
It was interesting to read some of the back-stories to the Metrozone series and I'm glad I read it. It suffers from being short stories, which is not a format I enjoy - they have to be incomplete to fit the format, and that irritates me.
August 23, 2012
excellent, wish there had been more of it
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