Richard French
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
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Richard French takes complex systems and makes them understandable. He helped pioneer the open-source web as General Manager of OSDN (Slashdot, SourceForge) and also held executive leadership roles in enterprise technology at Automation Anywhere and Oracle. He now writes biblical commentary, speculative fiction, and non-fiction on ethics and reflective practice, work united by one question: what would you risk for the truth? He writes from the Pacific Northwest and publishes through Indie Pen Press.
Richard French's books
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Meredith Trevelyn does not believe in her grandmother's talk of doors between worlds. She is a London risk analyst, fluent in probability and precaution, and the cottage she has just inherited on the Cornish cliffs is simply property with one strange condition: she must live there a year, in a house that has been waiting three hundred years to disagree. Then a door opens onto a forest with two moons, a fox pours her tea, and something old and hungry begins testing the threshold. The barriers between worlds are failing. Only a Trevelyn can hold them. Across twelve linked stories, Meredith crosses into worlds of crystal, dream, clockwork, and memory, meeting beings who have lost their homes, their hours, their dead. She cannot help them lay their grief down until she faces her own. For readers of The Enchanted Workshop and The Inn at Thistledown Hollow, and for anyone who...
Genres: Dystopian, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Feeling is a crime. Emma Thorne is the one who takes it from you. For twenty-five years, the Council has kept its peace by draining emotion from every mind in New Geneva. Emma is their most effective Collector, a weapon trained to extract grief, joy, and love before they can spread. Then a four-year-old's devotion to his mother slips past her conditioning and refuses to fade. For the first time, Emma can feel. And what she feels tells her that everything she protects is a lie. A stranger her power cannot touch. A resistance hiding children marked for correction. A buried warning that the world's engineered calm is killing far more than feeling. Every answer pulls Emma deeper into a conspiracy that reaches the Chancellor herself, and toward a choice between the safety she was built to enforce and the dangerous, beautiful thing waking inside her. Perfect for readers of...