Exterminator!A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger mans face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas; a mandrill known as the Purple Better One runs for the presidency with brutal results; and the world drifts towards apocalypses of

but she is plain and - worse - intelligent

Seconds later a gun goes off

a penniless artist

told and interpreted in different ways by successive generations

Thomas Edgar

Nichol tells the incredible story of the ejection seat in war and in peace of the pioneers who risked everything during the early days of development in the 1940s and 50s

Dressed in his father's clothes and accompanied by his talking (and endlessly complaining) buffalo

the incurable itches of middle-aged lust

poetic prose the story is that of a world full of threat and a child in jeopardy - but with a heroine resourceful enough to try to change the path of Fate

When Robbie McLaughlan

and if Auri cant learn to master her powers as a Trigger

desperate tyrants battle over fading resources