Bøker av Mark Bowman

Dave Allenson, a gruff security guard, is no fan of football, but he takes his job seriously. When, in the 1997 play-off against Iran, Peter Hore tries to tear down the net of the Iranian goal, Dave tackles him and prevents the vandalism - setting off a series of events in an alternate timeline of Australian football.In this alternative universe 'sliding-doors' narration, we follow a pivoted history where the results of the infamous game between Australia and Iran had gone differently.One tiny moment can change everything. Through the eyes of various players, associates, and others over the course of twenty years, this book traces the course of "what if".What would Australian football and the National Soccer League have looked like if things were different? It's just one version of how, if that moment had gone differently, things would be today.

Humanity is on the move. A sphere of Verity Space is consuming the Earth at an inexorable creep. A single city resists, slowing the advance in a seemingly hopeless war of attrition. Refugees pour into the Yakini's caravan of misfit buildings as Jose, Nomia and their band of Nodes wrestle against inevitable destruction. Bergur & Sera travel to a Mars seeking fresh supplies of a bio-weapon inexplicably effective against the Eidolons. Reeling after their own brush with annihilation, the Martians are more interested in internal squabbles than in helping their former overlords on Earth. Mex and Julienne, drawn together by their differences, are wrestling to share a single mind, even as they battle to thwart the death throes of a corporate paradigm. All the characters of the Verity Trilogy come together in Certitude; humanity's ultimate struggle against erasure from reality. Some will flourish, while others will make the ultimate sacrifice.

Book Two of The Verity Trilogy. While hiding on Mars, Nomia embarks on an audacious plan to free her brothers and sisters from the organic computer of the Nexus, and cripple MynCorp's hold over humanity. To succeed she will need to forge an alliance with the deeply compromised Martian independence movement. The Nexus has disturbed a presence in Verity Space even more insidious than MynCorp machinations. Determined to draw MynCorp into the fray, Mex infiltrates the heart of the corporate behemoth, but unwittingly uncovers a sickening truth. Julienne would give anything to restore her ordered life. Anything except the total cleansing demanded by MyncCorp. On the run, she takes refuge amongst the disenfranchised, scraping an existence in a senile building. Even here, her life is inexorably entwined with Mex's. Drawn and appalled by her emotions, she must decide how far she will go to save him.

In Verity, democracy has been eclipsed. Corporations have carved up the human colonies and reign supreme. MynCorp dominates Earth by exploiting her most valuable resource - the human subconscious. Wiring together the minds of the poor provides limitless computing power, serving MynCorp's multi-global agendas.Humans are adapting to new paradigms - the elite face resurrection and reprogramming, the disenfranchised are enslaved and free thinkers become anti-corporate fugitives. The paranoid and punitive nature of the corporations corrodes ambivalence and creates a new breed of freedom fighters.The status quo is disturbed when an ancient presence emerges from a universe touched by the computing network. Now alien races, rebel consciences, idealist spirits and enslaved souls must find a co-operative path, and convince MynCorp to save human existence. Along the way attraction, rebellion, violence, love and greed bond and repel the main characters.