Books
Door Witch
RPG comes to life as Sivitya, a Door Witch NPC (non-playable character) journeys to Earth to alert her master – Alan Bates – of a terrible threat to his avatar. A disbelieving Bates is sucked into the RPG and is soon in a fight for his survival. Unable to transform into any of his avatars, he realises he is dependant on Sivitya for his safety and his survival. Door Witch comes with 72 illustrations and is suitable for age 12 +.
Door Witch resources, lore and blog
The Turning Stone
In an alternate Earth and ancient spell, used to cement elementals, supernatural beings and other warring powers into one race – humanity – was set into a single stone. This became known as the Turning Stone. Millenia later, Western tourists on a trip to Uighuristan discover an ancient rune marked stone. An attempt to unravel its secret is successful but in doing this, the spell binding humanity together begins to unravel. The fate of civilisation hinges on the decision to rescue an injured, homeless Tuvan refugee.
Silt From Distant Lands
Collection of poetry and short fiction – in particular, dwelling on the collapse of Golden Age Islam (which most in the West will be unfamiliar with) in Byzantium Calls.
Resources for Silt From Distant Lands
The Tau Device
Hard Science Fiction. Man has got into space but not without help from advanced alien technology. As a junior member of the interstellar community, Earth must make do with the leavings of other more advanced races. Lory Gato is an interstellar gourmet who travels the stars looking for fine cuisine which might help seal trade deals. On Tnegi 36 he meets jih Liasse, a tnegi xeno-archaeologist. She is researching ancient signs of civilisation. Tnegi biology is incompatible with human biology but romance brews. They are sucked into a plot by Earth space-marines to steal alien terraforming technology, and soon they are in a struggle to survive; then a discovery of ancient technology turns everything they thought they knew on its side.
The Tau Device on Kindle, in hardcopy, hardcopy large font
Resources for The Tau Device
The Slow Holocaust
A selection of Dystopian works taking in
• Writing Day – escape from the last library on Earth
• The Slow Holocaust – it’s the future and millions of unemployed walk the motorways
• The Wrong Lane – a short cut to beat the traffic can be a gamble
• Undercroft – how does one to fix the ancient tech of crackle-connect and quick-shock?
Burnley
This work features an account of the last years of Burnley Grammar School. I was at Burnley Grammar School between 1967 and 1974. I retained my copies of the school year books and used these, plus some essays on the town and its history top to compile this work. Also includes advertisements by local businesses that have since vanished.
Resources for Burnley
A Guide to First Contact
A Guide to First Contact is a patchwork of stories that build up into a larger picture – the underlying principle is that beings superior to humanity would understand works that were beyond the ability of normal people to comprehend. This work delves into the prehistory of humanity, why we may never have space flight, what came before big bang, offers a deconstruction evolutionary theory, uncertainty theory, the rapture and of course first contact. It was originally conceived as multiple novels with titles such as Mandat Culkturel, the Fécunda and the Xenocotrix. The current title is a play on words however there is an actual guide in the work.
In Kindle, hardcopy, large font, hardback
Resources site for A Guide to First Contact
Has You Like It
Poetry and short fiction by Hasiwriters including two of my pieces: Writing Day and Old Friends (this latter piece was later expanded into The Slow Holocaust)
Works in Progress
(including stuff I plan to withdraw)
The Wrong Lane and Other Detours
(to be reissued in the future)
Aengus Park – tongue in cheek fictional ancestor account
Asbestolux – if Rossendale Reservoir had been built as Bacup Water with a nod to theme parks
Carrie – a cat’s view of the world (Carrie was real)
Dodger – a dog’s view of the world (Dodger’s owner is my homage to a lost friend of years ago)
Little Jimmy – Rossendale Reservoir again – Little Jimmy is my homage to a former work colleague
Message of Oeipa – set in Alexandria at the time of the disaster of the Teutoburger Wald
Pax Imperii – Rossendale Reservoir but building towards SciFi
The Four Cariatides – spin off from A Guide to First Contact
The Wrong Lane – take a short cut at your peril (also appears in The Slow Holocaust)
Winter in Alexandria – set in ancient Alexandria – follow up work to Message for Oeipa
Ice Made and other stories
My first collection of short fiction. This includes early versions of stories that appear in The Wrong Lane and other detours and also Lucky and other stories.
Lucky and other stories
My first SF collection featuring
Lucky (noted elsewhere on this page)
After School (noted elsewhere on this page)
Writing Day (noted elsewhere on this page)
Flower to Tree – mankind’s first encounter with the xenophids
Joe and the Xenophids – mankind are on the brink of exinction
Unfinished Tales
Noir narratives: A reporter from the Big Apple follows his heart to Oklahoma; The Legend of the Ridge Runner, The Missing Husband Caper (orig. title Harjazes)
Historical narratives – The worlds of three friends in the Island of Gozo, Malta are ripped apart by C12th Corsairs; An Alexandrian artisan is drawn into Roman intrigue following the battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
Brant. A fantasy piece
Harjazes. Nanowrimo 2013 diary for a noir influenced narrative.
Lucky – an alien princess from the galactic core takes refuge in the fictional town of Codwich, in the North of England. The initial 20k words are on Kindle. Still in progress
Zimq – images
Archie from My T Legacy blog from when My Telegraph was switched off.
TCWG Archive – long term project for legacy Daily Telegraph social media platform
The Graun Project – on hold
A Zombie’s Log – Just one of those things
Social Media
On Lulu (this being where my print-on-demand works are)
On Goodreads as Terence P and under pen name T.P. Archie
As Terence Park: and as my alt: T.P.Archie
I sometimes pop into the Indie Writer’s Network and on about.me
Legacy
I used to blog on MySpace before it imploded.
The Daily Telegraph used to host a blogging platform known as My Telegraph on which I maintained TP Archie’s blog
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