Nick Adams
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative
I have been an avid sci-fi reader for several decades, and cut my teeth reading Asimov, E. E. Doc Smith, Alan Dean Foster and such like. In more recent times Andy Weir’s The Martian, and absolutely everything penned by the fantastic Peter F Hamilton inspired me to think about what space story I would write if I was an author. There never was any doubt in my mind that if I ever did write anything it would be sci-fi, and then in 2016, my wife , already a successful crime writer, encouraged me to start jotting down some ideas, and she’d let me know if it had legs. What happened next was that no ideas were written down at all. Over the next eight months, I wrote the first in The Fold Series, from beginning to end. No planning, no notes, just seat of the pants writing. It just evolved in chapter order. It needed a bit of editing, but it was there, and the response from the first beta readers was fantastic. I had apparently become a “pantser” style of writer, and after recently meeting Lee Child, who is a self-confessed pantser, I’ve concluded I’m in good company and that pantsing isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The first two novels in the Fold series have been written during 2017 and 2018 while we were living in Brisbane, Australia. In late August of 2018 we returned to the UK, and as I write this in a pretty village in Dorset, the third in series is quickly evolving. I write the kind of stories I would like to read. The Fold Series, as Andy Weir has done with The Martian, is set a little in the future, and based around NASA technology. I like real characters, normal everyday people put into extraordinary circumstances, with realistic reactions and language. I know I wouldn’t say “gosh” if a 14km-long alien battle ship appeared next to me. If you love a non-stop action space adventure with believable characters, huge starships and awesome weaponry then you really should give The Fold Series a read. Don’t forget to add your email address in the box provided, and I’ll keep you up to date about cover reveals, book launch dates, general progress on new titles and stuff about space that inspires me. Finally, if you do enjoy the stories, please leave a short review. It’s the only way to let new readers know the books are good and well worth a look and encourages me to write more.
Nick Adams' books
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
After an eighteen month hiatus, Edward Virr and the crew of the sentient starship Gabriel find themselves getting a little restless and craving a bit of adventure. Admiral Bache Loftt comes to their rescue, with a relatively simple request, to check the status of one of his vessel’s. The oldest ship in the fleet, the Lytrotis, patrolling on the far side of the Milky Way has gone silent. What they find on arrival, proves both shocking and extremely concerning. To unravel the truth, they are forced to exploit their previously discovered alien gateway to a galaxy almost three million light years away. Someone, or something, is attempting to exterminate all biological life from an entire galaxy. Can Ed and the team overcome overwhelming odds and save the remaining pockets of human existence there?...before it moves on to other galaxies, most likely their own.
Genres: Crime, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+
VOLUME ONE IN THE DI CEDRIC LEROY SERIES It’s the mid twenty-first century and as climate change marches on irreversibly, man has begun colonising and mining on the moon. But where humans go, so inevitably does crime. New Dorchester, the United Kingdom’s first moon mining colony has a problem. They have a body, but strangely, they have no idea who he is, or how he got onto the base…and one of their security officers has vanished from the completely sealed establishment. The Foreign Secretary has requested a senior Metropolitan Police Detective must attend the scene and make some sense of it quickly. DI Cedric LeRoy is instructed to go up there, but for a man who gets sea sick in a canoe, it’s not a journey or case he particularly relishes. Suddenly thrust into a world he doesn’t recognise, with multiple factions seemingly trying to thwart the investigation and even...
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
A stolen tablet containing classified files, leads Edward Virr and the crew of the Gabriel to the distant Halo region of the Milky Way. They discover an awakening threat, dormant for several hundred thousand years and this time the alien threat is not human, but something from everyone’s darkest nightmare. Back in GDA space, Admiral Bache Loftt has problems of his own, trying to rebuilt his decimated fleet and can only spare one ship to help, skippered by the navy’s youngest and least experienced captain, Grogun Whipper. The threat, seemingly a long way away, rapidly escalates and manifests much closer to home. Threatening hundreds of human settled worlds with population extermination, including Earth. Loyalties, friendships and tempers are tested to breaking point as nothing it seems ever goes to plan.
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Could disaster fall upon the new starship Gabriel on its maiden voyage? Edward Virr and his crew are given an easy task by Commander Bache Loftt and the President of the GDA. Find two errant vessels and report their position. A simple enough job and one they can use to shake down their new bigger and more powerful starship. What they hadn’t foreseen, was two of their sworn enemies meeting up and combining forces to enact vengeance on not only the crew of the Gabriel, but on Dasos, the home planet of the galactic council itself. Events rapidly escalate out of control as the crew get split up, their ship is stolen and an attempt to outwit a foe so powerful he can move planets has a surprising and unexpected outcome. A tale of hate, recrimination and ingrained maliciousness that strikes at the Gabriel’s crew and the major power brokers...
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 8-11, 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Bache is sent to answer a distress call from a small freighter close to a planet in a distant corner of the galaxy. Not all is as it first seems. He finds himself quickly embroiled in an illegal encroachment of an untouched and developing human race. The more he uncovers, the more sinister the crimes get and he has to tread carefully as his very presence on the planet could be construed as a galactic crime. The frightening discovery of a hidden fleet of immense battleships could seriously disrupt the delicate balance of power holding the human races of the Milky Way together. Again, Bache finds himself in the middle of a significant military and diplomatic incident, but this time the decisions he makes could save or cost millions of lives.
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Where on Earth is Edward Virr? Ed and his personal assistant Pol mysteriously disappear from their home in England late one night. Signs of an abduction lead Andrew Faux to believe his colleague and friend is no longer on Earth and he summons the Gabriel’s crew. Along with retired GDA Commander Bache Loftt and their sentient starship, Cleo, they begin the search for their friend and captain. Quickly escalating into something much more than a revenge kidnapping, it transpires that not only could the population of Earth be in serious peril, but the inevitable consequences will critically undress the balance of power within the human worlds of the Milky Way. It’s never been more precarious for the crew of the Gabriel – only this time the trouble is closer to home.
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 8-11, 12-15, 16-18, 18+
A.I. personality research was banned – for a reason! Galactic navy recruit, Bache Loftt is on his final exercise after two years of study at the galaxy’s Naval Officer Training Academy. What starts as a routine end of course starship flight out to the edge of charted space, quickly becomes a fight for survival and an unplanned journey into a dangerous corner of the Milky Way. Disaster follows misfortune, in this tale of corrupt ancient technology, betrayal and ingrained distrust. With a resolution that seems frustratingly just out of reach. Follow Bache and company as they endeavour to save a remote and resolutely independent human community from a genocidal artificial intelligence, its prime objective to rid the galaxy of all sentient biological life.
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
New members of the galactic council, the Callametan’s, have a problem. An astronaut visiting a strange moon in a far corner of their system has disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Edward Virr and his crew agree to take their sentient starship, Gabriel to this distant arm of the Milky Way and investigate what happened. What they find not only exposes a threat to the Callametan’s continued survival, but uncovers a plot that endangers the entire galactic council – and the destruction of Earth itself. Journey with Ed and his loyal crew as they uncover a web of deceit, betrayal and pure revenge that could well end in their ultimate downfall.
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 8-11, 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Bache Loftt wants nothing more than to follow in his father’s footsteps and be an engineering officer on one of the galaxy’s most powerful, state of the art starships. He has the grades, he has the aptitude – and his application for the naval academy is in. All he has to do is wait for the call up. Then he witnesses a double murder. Barely escaping with his life, can he evade the unlimited resources of a galactic syndicate hunting for him and uncover a conspiracy that involves the very institution he’s determined to join? The Aspirant: a tale of friendships, betrayals, unspeakable crimes – and greed.
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
To protect your family’s secrets, how many people would you murder? Planet Earth’s first maximum security jail break involving a cloaked spacecraft necessitates Edward Virr and the crew of the sentient starship Gabriel to give chase. Emboldened by the addition of Andrew’s father, a retired FBI investigator, they pursue their quarry over 250 million light years through a recently discovered galactic gateway – and find themselves immediately fighting for survival. Two races, at war for millennia over lust for power and greed, don’t take kindly to strangers appearing in their midst and push our heroes’ abilities so far, it culminates in an unspeakable tragedy. Meanwhile, their quarry have problems of their own…
Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
The crew of your starship are being systematically slaughtered. What do you do? The galaxies ruling council have lost two ships, thousands of light years distant on the outer fringe of the Milky Way. A civilian exploration vessel and the military ship sent to find it have disappeared without a trace. Edward Virr and the crew of the sentient starship Gabriel are tasked with a mission to discover what happened. They find, not only the two misplaced ships but a secret to intergalactic travel, the biggest invasion fleet ever assembled and a ruling alien race so cruel, it could end all of humankind. Join, Ed and company, for their second crusade into the depths of uncharted space. Only this time the team are alone, two and a half million light years from home, they’re being hunted, and nothing it seems goes to plan.
Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Large print
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
What would you do if you materialised inside an alien starship? It’s 2049, and NASA-sponsored physicist Edward Virr is on the cusp of man’s greatest breakthrough – the ability to fold space and travel faster than light. He personally tests NASA’s futuristic prototype fold ship with a hand-picked crew. But as disaster strikes the first mission, Ed begins to suspect that he isn’t the only one developing the new technology. Discovering there’s a lot more at stake than first contact, Ed soon realises that Earth’s very survival depends on his ability to solve a crime of galactic proportions. Join Edward Virr and his rag-tag crew as they undertake their first space adventure into the depths of the Milky Way. The Fold Series: it’s like the love child of The Martian and Red Dwarf – with a pinch of Star Trek thrown in for extra flavour!