<i>J.C. Gemmell</i>  <i>Indie Author</I>
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J.C. Gemmell Indie Author

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J.C. Gemmell was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and received his B.A. in Computer Studies and a Master’s Degree in Applied Science from the University of Portsmouth. Before becoming an independent author of future fiction, he worked as an engineer for several multinational organisations. He lives with his partner and two cats on the south coast of England.

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J.C. Gemmell was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and received his B.A. in Computer Studies and a Master’s Degree in Applied Science from the University of Portsmouth. Before becoming an independent author of future fiction, he worked as an engineer for several multinational organisations. He lives with his partner and two cats on the south coast of England.

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J.C. Gemmell was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and received his B.A. in Computer Studies and a Master’s Degree in Applied Science from the University of Portsmouth. Before becoming an independent author of future fiction, he worked as an engineer for several multinational organisations. He lives with his partner and two cats on the south coast of England.

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I think someone switched our assignments. They’ve given me a cooling failure to work through. I hate being an engineer. There are only so many times I can ask why.
Jovana Omega-Beta-Zha-Ge
... we will be more conspicuous, and although life will appear more comfortable, it will no longer be as simple.
Caitlyn Dzhe-Ta-Tse-Tsha
We are outside. Jump up and kiss the sky if you want. For most people, there’s nothing else. Just a compact living cube with at least three friends. Very cosy.
Victoria Qua-Za-Jia-Ya
I want someone outside to be keeping an eye on us, that’s all.
Jovana Omega-Beta-Zha-Ge
For as long as I remember we’ve been getting ready for today. Everything we’ve done.
Danesh Ne-Baluda-Va-Wa
It must have been an incredible time when the forfeður were constructing the world. I wish I could have been part of that and had the opportunity to build something magnificent.
Joaquín Ghha-Qui-Baluda-Tlu

Books by J.C. Gemmell

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Reviews of books by J.C. Gemmell
 

Echoes of Exolife

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Explore the universe… with the 10th Volume of ‘The Expanding Universe’, a short-story collection to pique your interest and sharpen your mind.

An anthology of 20 sci-fi shorts available from 9th September 2024

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Aliens can be peaceful or not. Who will emerge as the superior strain of intelligence? Humanity may be new to the game, but they aren’t new to conflict.

Fantastic races vying for dominance. A microcosm of the greater good. Battles fought for higher ideals. Battles fought just to survive.

War doesn’t care about human or alien. The soldiers fight, and they fight hard, as if their lives depend on it. Because they do.

More than 160,000 words of never-a-dull-moment Sci-Fi entertainment! Join new friends as you immerse yourself in high-tech worlds scattered across the stars. Seize your copy of The Expanding Universe Volume 10 today.
 

In the Fullness of Tion

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Each tale is filled with intrigue and adulation, humour and honesty, with a high-technology, data-dependent outlook.

Nine short stories is available from Amazon from 1st June 2024

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A man reborn in his owner’s image.
A warrior disrupting a millennium of stability.
A beloved partner purges his recollections.
And a viral conspiracy, a marauding creature and two unlikely lovers…

‘In the Fullness of Tion’ is a collection of nine unpredictable stories about societal status, online dependency, aspiration and despair in an artificial world built on the ruins of drowned Earth.
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The Fornax Assassin

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The murder of the prime minister was regrettable, yet it did nothing to assuage the threat of the fornax variant⁠⁠⁠⁠ to the general public.

J.C. Gemmell’s future thriller is available from online stores.

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2038: a devastating pandemic sweeps across the world. Two decades later, Britain remains the epicentre for the fornax variant, annexed by a terrified global community.

David Malik is as careful as any man to avoid contact with the virus. But when his sister tests positive as an asymptomatic carrier, she must relocate to Fornax Island to join the isolated population of contagious-untreatables.

Fortunately, the British prime minister’s latest manifesto includes reintegrating the islanders with the nation. Yet, he does not survive a visit to Fornax Island to unveil his new policies.

The military suspects one of its junior officers is responsible for his death. Malik seizes his chance to represent the possible assassin, allowing him to protect his sister. Yet within days of taking on the case, he finds himself accused of masterminding the assassination.

When Malik discovers that a foreign corporation is manipulating events on Fornax Island, it forces him to choose between self-preservation, his sister’s welfare, and the future of seven hundred thousand residents.
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The Visionary

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The Dragon brought global disaster.
One young woman can change the world.

e-book available free from online stores.

Audiobook, narrated by Jennifer Aquino, now available.

J.C. Gemmell’s short novel is available free from online stores.

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At the beginning of February 2060, Mount Erebus erupted, the first of a chain of Antarctic volcanoes that forever changed Earth’s future. Within days, sea levels began to rise, until sixty metres of water claimed coastlines worldwide.

Twelve-year-old Xin-yi and her mother fled their home, surviving amongst a community of rice farmers. A year later, a chance conversation with international census officials prepared her for a new life.

Now fourteen, Xin-yi commences her training as a visionary. It is her task to imagine a new Earth, rising above the drowning waters. Thousands of young people strive to design a world in which the displaced millions can live, and engineer a solution that will take a millennium to populate.

But Xin-yi’s challenges are more personal: coming to terms with the loss of her brother and unexpected feelings towards a friend. She has to choose between working to benefit humanity and her internal conflict with love.

Set over three decades after the 2060 flood, The Visionary combines dystopian, future and science fiction, and introduces the J.C. Gemmell’s Tion series.
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Tionsphere

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Population one-hundred-thousand-billion plus:
the system is on the brink of collapse.

J.C. Gemmell’s first instalment in the Tion series.

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For a million years, the human population was less than 26,000 people. By the year 2060, ten billion individuals crowded the planet.
 
Facing humanity’s greatest challenge, two global corporations merge to deliver a drastic solution: the construction of concentric spheres encircling the planet. For almost a thousand years, the new world was astonishingly empty, but eventually, as the tionsphere approaches capacity, its universal processing service starts to fail and threatens the lives of the obsessively-connected people.
 
Caitlyn and her small team of contract theorists accept the impossible task of determining why. They discover individuals who possibly pre-date the tionsphere, including one who intends to destroy everything within Tion’s spheres: Pazel is intent on killing thousands of billions of people for the chance of preserving an elite population tailored to his own desires.
 
Set on an immense scale, Tionsphere follows ordinary workers surviving in a world overflowing with people distracted by their technology and threatened by life without it.
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The Uprisers

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Earth’s oceans were safely stored in orbit.
Now something is hurling them towards Tion.

J.C. Gemmell’s second instalment in the Tion series.

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The elimination of Earth’s excess water was crucial to building a better world, providing access to real estate and raw materials. For a thousand years, the ejected ice remained safely stored in Tion’s orbit, and the human population soared.

Mike has a licence to move tourists through Tion’s spheres, despite new restrictions in the movement of people and data. His latest clients know nothing of his previous life and relationship to Pazel, or of the voice from his past, tempting him to return.

When Mike discovers scattered communities across Tion’s exposed surface, he knows he must confront Pazel. As they descend into the Depths and beyond, the crisis facing Tion becomes clear: the oceanic ice starts to bombard the world. Their journey becomes one of survival, not just theirs, but for hundreds of thousands of billions of consumers.

The Uprisers follows desperate people as they are forced to leave the safety of their connected lives behind and rise up towards the surface of Tion.
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Demiurge

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Desperate people will do anything to survive.
Could a new god be enough to save them?

J.C. Gemmell’s third instalment in the Tion series.

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The world survived for a millennium without gods until the devastation and disconnection became unbearable.

Heikapu has attained Tion’s surface but needs biotechnology to preserve the behaviour regulators who live there. There is only one guaranteed source, but she cannot locate it in the barren wasteland. In the levels below, an army of fanatics seeks the same thing, but they may have a way to recreate it for themselves.

The flood has devastated Tion’s infrastructure, and the central processing facility has failed. Billions of people are disconnected for the first time in their lives and have lost all sense of hope. One faction has a way to provide data to the masses, but it means exploiting the people they depend upon; they have no choice because, without a replacement processor, they cannot recreate Caitlyn’s bioapp.

Somewhere on the surface of Tion, a new god is protecting the uprisers. His power may be great, but is the price too high?
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