Dear Readers,
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Some time ago I made a deliberate decision to make my books available both as free downloads on Book Funnel and for purchase. This wasn't a decision I took lightly.
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The publishing industry has shifted in recent years toward treating authors as customers rather than creators. In response, I chose to step away from certain mainstream platforms and take direct control of how my work reaches you.
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What drives me is simple: to write the highest quality science fiction I can — thought-provoking, action-driven, and emotionally honest — and to connect with readers who appreciate it. Platform behavioral economics have no place in that relationship.
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If my books resonate with you, that's all that matters.
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C. R. Turner
OUTLIVING EARTH​ - COMING SOON
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Three lives, three catastrophes, three outcomes.
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Washington DC, 2050. Earth is on the brink. As civilization fractures under the weight of its own ambitions, three lives are each set adrift by the same collapsing world: a Mars colonist who was never meant for the red planet, a salt-of-the-earth type whose only priority is to protect his family, and a man whose relationship with time is not what it seems.
A flicker in the night sky erupts into a firestorm as the starship Blueshift disintegrates and releases its full payload of unrefined hydrogen.
With its debris strewn across Terra Primus's largest city, Paelagus, the newly formed Union struggles to figure out what brought down the hydrogen refueling tanker. They request the expertise of the Lithion Starship Crash Investigation Unit, and Nevin and his talented team of investigators head off-world to help solve the mystery.
When the Imperial Twins, a behemoth military starship carrying 270 fighter aircraft and over 100,000 soldiers, goes missing, a team of experts are called upon to investigate.
The lead team from the Lithion Starship Crash Investigation Unit—Nevin, Lake, Birk, and an artificial intelligent android, Krakish—leave the safety of their home world to travel to Grovsia, the right hand of the Galactic Federation.
War is coming. The Galactic Federation and the ruthless Grovlic Empire are standing on the brink of conflict. As a new secret weapon threatens to shift the balance of power, legendary Striker Scout Joel Stinson is sent deep behind enemy lines to uncover the truth.
For his daughter Riley, every day is a lesson in survival. As a trainee in the elite mounted search-and-rescue division, she is facing the ultimate test—the brutal MOSAR Trial, where failure would mean the end of her life-long dream.
The First Striker Pursuit have been tasked with hunting down war criminals. Joel and his team have the full resources of the Union behind them, and the Butcher of Blackrock is at the top of their list. The Butcher is as bad as they come—rumored to have killed hundreds and legendary for his brutal slaughtering of servicepeople, he’s the most prolific murderer in Talon history.
Having once escaped the Butcher’s grasp, Joel learned long ago that when you go off-world, anything can and does happen.
For years, a monolithic Timberwolf-class starship has been hidden, but now it’s about to reappear. Together with his girlfriend Sam and the rest of the Striker Force Raptor team, Joel has been assigned to retrieve this ghost ship and return it to its rightful owners.
​But what seems like an exhilarating adventure takes a dangerous turn amid chance encounters with black holes and hidden planets.
After years on the run, Joel, Max, and Sam have settled into a peaceful existence on Arcadia. Now, their idyllic life is thrown into disarray when they are asked to join Striker Force Raptor on a MOSAR mission to the planet Hikaru. The objective: find a missing prisoner transport starship and rescue any survivors. For Joel, it’s a chance to put his parents’ killers in jail for life. For Sam, it’s an opportunity to find her missing father.
The civil-war-ravaged streets of Terra Primus are a hazardous place for a sixteen-year-old, but Joel is determined to make it to Arcadia to reconnect with his father’s legacy. Starving, injured, and hunted by his father’s nemesis—a striker scout—Joel makes an unlikely friend in a magnificent Canine Maximus. Learning to trust and rely on each other’s loyalty and strength, they must navigate a world of ruin and treachery where every turn could mean capture by the Union police. What follows is an epic journey of survival, betrayal, mateship, and love.
Kyle and his parents have recently moved back to America after four years in Cairo when tragedy strikes. Already struggling to readjust, Kyle's mother’s death tears his world apart, the anguish and despair further straining his already tense relationship with his father. Soon, he begins having visions of himself in the Underworld—the Duat—in which he is Anubis, the Egyptian god of embalming.
The delusions are frightening at first, but soon, he is going out of his way to induce them.
ABOUT ME
I’m an Australian author with a body of work spanning military and hard science fiction. My MOSAR series follows the lives of elite search and rescue operatives navigating a universe of conflict. My Starship Crash Investigation series takes a harder edge, placing investigators at the centre of catastrophic failures in deep space. Delusions of Anubis stands apart — a psychological exploration of identity and belief set against the mythology of ancient Egypt.
Before writing fiction, I spent decades designing mining infrastructure around the world, developing a fascination with underground places and the people who endure them. I also built my own electric catamaran, which found its way into the pages of the MOSAR series.