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D. Alexander Smith


Marathon

Marathon

The Marathon Trilogy: Book 1

D. Alexander Smith

The Open Palm and her crew are the finest Earth has to offer in 2058. Their mission: serve as ambassadors of the human race to the aliens called Cygnans. On board are eleven people who, in the absence of such fictions as faster-than-light drive, must live together for seven years.

They were hand-picked for the mission, but their success hangs on factors that no psychologists could have foreseen. What will happen to them after, say, three and a half of those seven isolated years? And there is a twelth personality to contend with: the ship's computer, programmed to complete the mission successfully and to monitor the crew. What level of awareness can a such a machine develop? How refined can its decision-making become after years of human input? And when the mission begins to deteriorate, what will it choose to do?

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

The Marathon Trilogy: Book 2

D. Alexander Smith

Halfway between two worlds, humanity faces its deadliest enemy. Fear…

Homecoming

Homecoming

The Marathon Trilogy: Book 3

D. Alexander Smith

In the tiny village of Westerbank in the south west of Scotland, the 1960s are not about rock'n'oll and drugs; they're about survival, making a bare living out of a struggling farm or working for a pittance at whatever job comes along. Nonetheless in this close community friendships go deep and the pub of an evening is a cheery place, at least until too much drink is taken.

Fifteen years ago, Joe McBride left Westerbank under a cloud, and in his absence life has moved on, the secrets he took with him disturbing only occasionally those who were caught up in them. But now Joe McBride is coming home, a changed man, and one who needs to face up to the past before it's too late. The truth about the mysterious death of a young girl fifteen years ago is about to come out, and nothing in Westerbank will ever be quite the same again.

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