Steve Trower: 5 books

On the other side of The Kempston Interface, Phil Grundy and his friends find themselves in a world where a terrible apocalypse has left the highways deserted but for a few bands of armed bandits and warriors. If Mad Max had taken place on the M3 near Basingstoke rather than the Australian outback, and if Max had been more geek than mad, it might have looked a little like this.

Matthew Smith is a largely unremarkable computer programmer from Surbiton, who just happens to have landed a rather lucrative contract for his latest game, Bootlesquith Manor. To celebrate his good fortune, he pops down to Frank’s Outdoor to get a few tinnies, and share the news with his good...

After escaping from a dinosaur theme park that wasn't quite as extinct as it should have been, Phil Grundy and the Ambivalence crew find themselves in 1982 where they must track down the Assembly of Newly Uplifted Systems before they open a portal between worlds real, imaginary and otherwise. Thankfully,...

It all started, as so many good stories do, on eBay. However, when Phil Grundy snatches a pristine Sinclair ZX81 from under the nose of a fellow collector, he has no idea he has entered into more than just a bidding war. Phil soon discovers that shady forces have been uplifting home...

What if the events of the Bible happened not in the distant past, but some time in the future? What if instant communication, computers and space travel were commonplace?  What if instead of shepherds in the Middle East, the Patriarchs were space travellers, colonists eking out an existence...