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Who can you trust when it comes to voting in an election? Politician A tells you one thing and politician B another. They all make promises but can they actually deliver on them? Clearly asking them that question won't help, nor will asking the army of their supporters, including the news media which is mostly owned by them. In fact, asking any single human being can be problematic, as even people we trust deeply might not be sufficiently up to speed to know the answer. And what should you ask? Well one topic is fundamental because it underpins every political policy, and that's the economy...

A SIMPLE TALE OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLE METAPHYSICS In the summer of 2008, a long awaited scientific experiment was started at the CERN particle accelerator near Geneva. The experiment involved the high-speed collision of subatomic particles and the objective was to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, more commonly known as 'The God Particle'. To the great disappointment of the worldwide scientific community and the relief of many people who were concerned that this experiment might trigger a reaction that would destroy our planet, a technical hitch caused the experiment to be abandoned at ...

Part 2 of The God Particle series takes our metaphysical hero, 'Radio', on a journey to another universe where he encounters the Collective Unconscious. Much is learned along the way but Book and the other GPs are still hotly pursued by agents from the intelligence community. Their cause isn't helped by the small matter of hijacking some technical equipment. But, in fairness, the Large Hadron Collider probably isn't that small a matter.

Previously published as two novels, 'Guernsey - Rachel's Story' draws together 'Rachel's Shoe' and sequel 'The Causeway' into a single volume. Nestled in the bay of St Malo, the Channel Islands claim the unique, if unenviable distinction of being the only part of Britain to have been occupied by a foreign power in hundreds of years. Life in the islands during the five years under the Jackboot was hard and freedoms severely curtailed, but the spirit of a teenage Guernsey boy called Tom Le Breton was never dampened. This is the story of a dramatic wartime rescue and the romance that grew ...

When Freddy Stein escapes the net cast by the police forces of Guernsey and Munich, he becomes embroiled in a plan to preserve the lucrative drugs' dealings of a sinister crime lord. But miles away from his familiar city surroundings, on a remote Channel Island, Freddy's life is changed forever. His fate, and that of his victims, take a turn nobody, least of all Freddy, could have predicted. This gripping conclusion to Peter Lihou's debut novel skilfully fuses together another tale of action, suspense and romance set in the spectacular Channel Islands.

The Same Year: Yin 2150, Yang 371.652 Earth has finally made contact with extra-terrestrial life but unexpectedly it's not in our universe and it's not only human but our organic counterpart in a multi-verse. Communication was made possible by a team under the direction of Cambridge University Physics Professor, Nick Caine. Nick and his team developed a real-time language translation system using a powerful quantum computer nicknamed, 'The Engine' as well as a social network called 'CHAT'. Thanks to quantum entanglement technology, CHAT is now ubiquitous across both worlds, which have been ...

The Orders , a novelette, is the final book in The Quantum Architects trilogy, an AI Science Fiction & Philosophy adventure. Quantum Computers have been equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) that surpasses the most optimistic ambitions of two civilisations, the AI has finally yielded Artificial Consciousness. In doing so, the computers are not only programmed with instructions, they are programmed to learn how to learn, without limits. Two civilisations across a multi-verse had accummulated vast amounts of knowledge but their conjecture had always been based upon the anatomical ...

Book 3 continues the tale of the elusive God Particles and their human accomplices, Honey and Jack. The third book in the series takes up the often irreverent and sometimes amusing, philosophical insights bestowed upon Book as he attempts to save the universe (that would be this universe). In doing so, he enlists the help of powerful allies. At least, they were powerful before getting involved with the God Particles. It really isn't a good idea to buy this book unless you've read the first two in the series and you may decide not to bother at all, which is fine. Either way, events will ...

Nestled in the bay of St Malo, the Channel Islands claim the unique, if dreadful distinction of being the only part of Britain to have been occupied by a foreign power in hundreds of years. Life on the islands during the five years under the Jackboot was hard and freedoms severely curtailed, but the spirit of a young Guernsey boy called Tom Le Breton was never dampened. This is the story of a dramatic wartime rescue and the romance that grew between Tom and a young Jewish girl imprisoned on the nearby island of Alderney. The story moves from those dangerous but somehow magical days to the ...

The social media giants of the early decades in the 21st century have died and been replaced by ‘CHAT’, a new artificial intelligence network built on a powerful quantum computer, affectionately called the 'Engine'. Avoiding the failings of its predecessors, CHAT has become ubiquitous. A key feature is the network's ability to translate any language to the language of the user, in real time; meaning that everyone around the world can speak to each other as if they are all speaking the same language. CHAT's artificial intelligence was developed at a remote campus of Cambridge University ...

From the early 1400s to the 21st century, the island of Guernsey was a microcosm of society edging its way from feudalism towards democracy. During those 500 years, the Lihou family worked and lived on the island and their story is woven into many of the great events that have shaped, not just the island, but the wider world. Sixteen generations of the Lihou family span the half-millennium of this story and with each generation, a unique view of the society and context of their everyday lives unfolds. Where historical records have established the facts, as with Parish registers, they have ...

A SIMPLE TALE OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLE METAPHYSICS In the summer of 2008, a long awaited scientific experiment was started at the CERN particle accelerator near Geneva. The experiment involved the high-speed collision of subatomic particles and the objective was to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, more commonly known as 'The God Particle'. To the great disappointment of the worldwide scientific community and the relief of many people who were concerned that this experiment might trigger a reaction that would destroy our planet, a technical hitch caused the experiment to be abandoned at ...