Simon Cantan

Hard Vacuum 1

Clinging to the bar running along the front of the platform, Sergeant Osric has a lot of time to think about how he got there. About how he's shooting through a forest on a rocket powered railcar. About how a grinning thief is clinging to the same bar beside him. Most of all, though, about how he's heading for Bytarend; a town no-one has heard from in almost a hundred years. There has to be a reasonable explanation for their silence, after all. Osric tries to think of a reason that doesn't end in his horrible death...... he can't come up with one.

The Bite on the End of the Line

The Eighties are back. A science-fiction series as over-the-top as the best action movies ever were. Kyra Sarin has survived five years of the hardest fighting mankind has ever seen. On her way back to Earth, to finally see her children again, the space station she stops at is taken over by terrorists. It’s the last mistake they’re ever going to make. Hard Vacuum is the first book in the Kyra Sarin series. Sweary, gory, and fast, the action is non-stop. Grab your copy today! This quick read also contains a special offer to get the second book in the series for free.

Hard Vacuum

Dave Higgins

Humanity’s best hope is a wicker spaceship. Josie Stein woke up a thousand years in the future and was immediately elected captain of the U.F.S. Greenstar, a recycled spaceship on a mission to stop the self-destructive aliens of the galaxy from wiping themselves out. Now the Kalmari, a homicidal race of aliens, have set their sights on Earth. How can the ramshackle Greenstar possibly stand in their way? A fun and fast-paced episodic season of stories that will have you laughing out loud. Find out just how weird the future can get.

The Space Opera

Greenstar Complete Season 1

Fantasy as fast as any thriller. Clinging to the bar running along the front of the platform, Sergeant Osric has a lot of time to think about how he got there. About how he's shooting through a forest on a rocket powered railcar. About how a grinning thief is clinging to the same bar beside him. Most of all, though, about how he's heading for Bytarend; a town no-one has heard from in almost a hundred years. There has to be a reasonable explanation for their silence, after all. Osric tries to think of a reason that doesn't end in his horrible death... ... he can't come up with one. The Bite on the Line is the first book in the Bytarend series. Fast-paced fantasy with plenty of humour along the way. The Bite on the Line will grip you until the final page. Grab a copy today! Contains a special offer to get the second book in the series for free by joining the author's mailing list! Interview with the Author Q - What makes the Bytarend books so special? A - I set out to create a series that combines everything I love in fantasy. I've never been a fan of slow moving fantasy books, I prefer a little bit more action and adventure in my stories. At the same time, I love banter between characters. I'm a big fan of the biting comments characters can make to one another as they face down danger. Those kinds of books aren't all that common. It's fairly rare to find fast-moving action and comedy in the fantasy genre. So I set out to write a series that I would want to read. Q - There are a lot of characters in these books? A - There sure are. In the first book, we follow Tondbert's coming of age, dealing with his loss. At the same time, Osric is out for a kind of justice he's having trouble finding in a world ruled by nobles. The rest of the books in the series follow more characters, quite a lot of whom are women. I love strong female lead characters in books, so that was something else I wanted to make sure of. Along with some romance, for good measure. In the six books, I think I've pulled in every type of character I could think of. Tondbert, for example, is dark-skinned because I hadn't read many (or any) books with black main characters. It made no sense to me that fantasy characters always seem to be Caucasian. Since it's a fantasy setting, I saw no reason not to add a bit of diversity. Q - Should the books be read in order? A - While I've tried to setup each book so it can be read individually, I'd recommend reading them in order. Each books tells its own story, but the events of one do affect the next. So I'd recommend: - The Bite on the Line - The Bite of Minds - The Bite of Death - The Bite of Forest Dark - The Bite of Rust - The Bite of a King Q - Why should readers give these books a try? A - The Bytarend books are ideal for anyone who wants to try some fast-moving, action-oriented fantasy. I've had emails from readers saying they don't normally read fantasy, but they loved these books. With the first one on special offer, there's no reason not to give it a go. Thanks for reading!

The Bite on the Line

Vampires aren’t the only ones in the shadows Katie is a Godchosen. At eighteen, she gets her own personal god. Someone to help her achieve her dreams; guide her in times of trouble; keep her safe. Or any god but Loki might have done that. He wants her to be a vampire hunter, the very opposite of keeping her safe. Katie’s about to discover the world that lives in the shadows around her. The one regular humans never even see. Find out just how cruel those shadows can be inside.

Blood Cruel

Josie Stein saved humanity and they hate her for it. Josie foiled a scheming, homicidal AI. She saved the Earth from the Kalmari. But nothing is good enough for Burger Supreme: they think a ray forcing everyone to have a conscience is a bad thing. Dispatching Vesta Hartman, a captain with two itchy trigger fingers and everything to prove, Burger Supreme want the Greenstar brought to justice at any cost. Even if it means turning it to powder first. Pursued relentlessly, Josie is faced with impossible choices: run and spend an eternity with Pol, or try to redeem the Greenstar before Vesta catches them.

Greenstar Season 2

Tondbert Payne is running through all the daydreams he’s had about meeting his true love. Roses and long walks featured prominently. None of those daydreams had him standing with his back pressed against hers, wild creatures circling them. There’d always been a lot less claws and slavering. He can’t see a way out, but there must be one. After all, who’s ever heard of doomed young lovers? Continuing the adventures in Bytarend, The Bite of Minds includes two novellas and a short story.

The Bite of Minds

The aliens she thought she’d left behind are coming to find her. Revenge. The itch Kyra longs to scratch. In the hours since Baltasar tried to kill her, Kyra has pictured his last shuddering breath a hundred ways. Each one puts a smile on her face. The only trouble is picking between them. Vengeance might have to wait, though. The unstoppable Xenomigrant advance means extinction for humankind, and the only person with a plan is Baltasar. “Planet Zero” is the second book in the Kyra Sarin series. Continuing the fast-paced adventures of soldier Kyra Sarin, if you like science-fiction action, you’ll love it. “Planet Zero” will have you tearing through it. A fast-paced book that you won’t be able to put down. Grab a copy today!

Planet Zero

In a corrupt world, Kyra Sarin is the only one who won’t bend. After defending the Earth from aliens, Kyra finds her battles aren’t over yet. She’s inherited wealth beyond measure, but there’s a catch: two criminal factions want to capture and control that money for themselves. Each has a different prison lined up for her: one stone; one virtual. The only way to escape is to do what Kyra does best: kill them all. Violent Science is the third book in the Kyra Sarin series, a sci-fi thriller. Fast-paced, sweary action that will have you racing through the pages. If you like action sci-fi that doesn’t take itself too seriously, this one’s for you. Buy this book to continue the break-neck action today!

Violent Science

The first three books in the Kyra Sarin series, in one omnibus edition. Kyra Sarin has survived five long years fighting invading aliens on Eris, but can she survive Earth? Facing off against terrorists, the aliens she'd hoped to leave behind, and evil corporations, Kyra has to use everything she learned at war to survive. Inspired by 80s action movies, the Kyra Sarin series is on the lighter side military science. If you like sweary, over-the-top action, you'll love this series. Grab a copy today, kick back, and watch a space marine show people how it's done.

The Kyra Sarin Trilogy

Everything you've ever wanted is just a heist away In an interconnected future, hacker Chris Noonan thinks he's found the key to wealth and happiness for his mother and himself. His hacks make him invisible for a short time, so he can rob a bank without them ever knowing he was there. When a heist goes wrong, however, Chris finds himself framed for murder. He needs to find out who set him up and why, before he ends up in prison for the rest of his life. If you like visions of the future combined with non-stop action, then you'll love this page turner series.

Black Silicon

Who says fantasy has to take itself so seriously? Bytarend is a town filled with misfits and outcasts with nowhere else to go. They want a different world, one where they’re not crushed at the whims of a noble or evil magician. The odds of them succeeding are impossible. Whole kingdoms are built on the old way of doing things. But they’re willing to fight the world that tried to crush them. The Bite Collection contains all six books in the highly-rated Bytarend fantasy series. If you love fantasy and like to laugh, grab a copy and hang on tight. Buy this book and read the entire series today! Included in the collection: The Bite on the Line Clinging to the bar running along the front of the platform, Sergeant Osric has a lot of time to think about how he got there. About how he’s shooting through a forest on a rocket powered railcar. About how a grinning thief is clinging to the same bar beside him. Most of all, though, about how he’s heading for Bytarend; a town no-one has heard from in almost a hundred years. There has to be a reasonable explanation for their silence, after all. Osric tries to think of a reason that doesn’t end in his horrible death... ... he can’t come up with one. The Bite of Minds Tondbert and Isabelle have found the cutest, most adorable little creatures out in the forest. They’re fluffy, harmless little bundles of fuzz. So why do people and livestock back in Bytarend keep turning up dead? The Bite of Death Lila Deadwhisper is an assassin. Trained from the age of four, she costs a king’s ransom to hire for a reason. She never fails, and she just got a new contract to assassinate Tondbert Payne. The Bite of Forest Dark Jenni Styrm is staring down at a town with a dark shadow over it. Caedin Tegart, scourge of Graefditch, has just arrived by train to pull Bytarend back under the duke’s rule. Tegart is vicious, with a roving eye for the younger women of the town. No one can stand against him and live. The Bite of Rust At the top of a high mountain, on the edge of a vast desert, the Fortress of Rust waits. The home of the greatest assassins in the world, no one knows their secret. Every fourth year they take in a hundred four-year-old girls and turn out one master assassin. The assassins of the fortress topple kings, move borders and end dynasties with their skills. The Bite of a King Lila, Tondbert, Isabelle, Jenni and Osric have a problem. King Tallon Tyre has heard of their rebellion and he’s not a man to cross. He’s bringing an army of twelve thousand to crush them all, to drive them so deep into the dust, no one will even remember they were there.

The Bite Collection

A dark and dangerous way to make an assassin. At the top of a high mountain, on the edge of a vast desert, the Fortress of Rust waits. The home of the greatest assassins in the world, no one knows their secret. Every fourth year they take in a hundred four-year-old girls and turn out one master assassin. The assassins of the fortress topple kings, move borders and end dynasties with their skills. Lila Ariette’s mother just died, and no one in her kingdom has a place for a little orphan girl. Bundled onto a cart and sent to join the assassins, Lila is going to find out the secret of the fortress. It’s a secret most people would happily go their lives not learning. The Bite of Rust is the fifth book in the Bytarend series. A fast-paced battle to stay alive that never lets up. The Bite of Rust will have you tearing through the pages to the end. Grab a copy today!

The Bite of Rust

Lila, Tondbert, Isabelle, Jenni and Osric have a problem. King Tallon Tyre has heard of their rebellion and he’s not a man to cross. He’s bringing an army of twelve thousand to crush them all, to drive them so deep into the dust, no one will even remember they were there. After fighting for months, struggling against the monsters and nobles trying to destroy them, can the heroes of Bytarend possibly defeat the largest army they’ve ever seen? The concluding novel in the Bytarend series combines all the action, humour and tension readers have come to expect. No one is safe against King Tyre’s army. Will the last novel mean the end for Bytarend itself? Find out inside.

The Bite of a King

Jenni Styrm is staring down at a town with a dark shadow over it. Caedin Tegart, scourge of Graefditch, has just arrived by train to pull Bytarend back under the duke’s rule. Tegart is vicious, with a roving eye for the younger women of the town. No one can stand against him and live. A dark and dangerous fantasy book from author Simon Cantan.

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