Steve K Smy: 16 books

A new threat arises, but one from within. This danger, however, is not one that will not succumb to any normal solution. Tirnam must rely on friends old and new if the threat is to be overcome.

Set on another world, Skylord is a short tale of a young dragon's confrontation with the price of lying.

A chance find of a tunnel under an ancient stone circle leads to a terrible secret, hidden millennia before. As terror strikes, and evil consumes, only one group can help: the Guardians. Their elite team, G1, arrives and must overcome the ancient evil. If they fail, then the very world will be destroyed. Joined...

Patterns of the Mind is a collection of short stories, poems, and idle thoughts all collected together for the reader to explore, think about and imagine.Pen Strokes,Lines of Thought;Words of Wonder,Patterns of the MindA devotion to the wonder of the mind – Imagination!

A terrible disaster on the Earth type planet of Ossilan leads to Captain Henri Duschelle and his crew being enlisted to risk destruction to investigate. The mystery isn't what it appears to be, with powerful forces working in the background. Can Duschelle solve the mystery, and live to tell the tale? A novelette.

The Guild: a criminal organisation that lurks in every corner of Ur'gavan. The Guildmaster: chief of that organisation. And caught between old oaths and new: Tirnam. The prince and his friends are confronted by the Guild's brutal methods. His power challenged by the demands of the guildmaster,...

Tirnam, a young thief, lives in a city under the iron rule of conquerors. Devoted to the man who saved his life, he must choose: risk trying to escape with the crippled old man, or defy the conquerors?

Gabrin Parr, son of the mighty Elthan Parr, discovers the terrible fate which hangs over him, thanks to his courageous mother. Rebelling, he flees, until he learns of his mother's cruel death. Driven by that, he determines to destroy his father - and the evil he contains. Can he triumph over an evil that has lasted for thousands of years? The prequel/parallel tale to Thief.

Continuing on from the end of both "Thief" and "Gabrin: The Avatar", this short story sees the people of the ancient city of Ur'gavan facing grave danger. The one-time boy thief, Tirnam, and his friend Gabrin Parr, must seek to forge a new future, a future of hope. They are the...

In the depths of the Amazonian jungle, lost for millennia, its location hidden by the local peoples from every explorer, lies a city – a city that shouldn’t exist.Discovered by an archaeologist, Professor Hiram Leibowitz, despite every attempt to conceal its existence, the first revelations...

A simple man bears a terrible burden, unknowing. Now, that burden is killing him, seeking freedom from his exhausted hulk. Freedom to satisfy its evil hunger. "A darkness dwelt there, a vile miasma of misery that gnawed at the very soul of the man. It had been there for years, growing...

Captain Henri Duschelle must lead his loyal crew on a seemingly impossible mission: to deliver a vital organ to one of the crew's son, across the longest part of the colonised worlds - to an insane deadline. He is convinced that only his ship, the stunningly beautiful "Persephone" can make such a journey. But problems lie in wait... A novelette.

An artefact of evil from antiquity is in the hands of a madman, and only the Guardians can oppose his insane schemes! Against all precedent, a stranger is allowed into the inner sanctum of the Guardians. This man brings news of something that threatens the human race with eternal slavery. An...

The merchant vessel 'Persephone', fastest of her kind, is on a fairly routine run to the colonial world of Tanvella. En route, however, she encounters a derelict ship and then an unknown object which threatens to destroy her. Captain Duschelle and his crew must save themselves, and thousands of others, and reveal something deplorable, before they can hope to return home.