Avatar for Ravager

Ravager

rank: 6240

Last week's position: 6251

first registered 15.02.09

last online 35 days ago

report abuse
about me

Born and raised in New Zealand, I've always found myself to feel perhaps a little alone, but with that solitude my creativity flows forth. I write not for an audience, nor to satisfy people.

I write because I must. Because there are stories that must be told. Stories that create emotion, or make people think. For me, writing is more than just putting words on a page. It is about creating a world, and sharing it with others.

And it is not just about creation either, but the expression of that creation in such a way that others might see it as you do, but that they also may see things you never imagined in your wildest dreams.

favourite books

All of an Instant
Eisenhorn Omnibus
Ravenor Omnibus
Honor Harrington Series
Diaspora
Short Story Collections of Philip K. Dick
The Rediscovery of Man (Short Works of Cordwainer Smith)
The Ararat Cycle (Felix Gilman)

my websites

http://secondsphere.org/index.php    

HarperCollins is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Self-publish with CreateSpace

my bookshelf

info
Stories from a Leaking Mind
Stories from a Leaking Mi....
Fletcher Kovich
rank 337
The Age of Rhinestone
The Age of Rhinestone
blue boy
rank 291
To Kill a Dead Man
To Kill a Dead Man
Dan D. Andreescu
rank 59
Man by a tree
Man by a tree
Dani J Caile
rank 210
none

my books

Ragnarok, War in Heaven

 

Ragnarok, War in Heaven
Phil Grey
rank 1515

Ragnarok, War in Heaven

Phil Grey

They say character is what you are in the dark.
They say people can't change.
They are wrong.


When worlds collide and two disparate groups of people are thrown together across space and time, almost anything could happen. Chance and fate send these characters on a collision course with perhaps the most unhinged scheme ever devised… finding a way back.

What happens when you lose everything you care about in a single instant.
What happens when you realise you can't go home again.
When you take everything away, are people still the same… or are they more than they ever dreamed of.

An undercover officer in the wrong place at the wrong time.
An ace pilot with nothing to fly and nowhere to go.
A soldier who lost his way but found his humanity.
A mechanic just this side of sane who loves starships perhaps a little too much.
A stranger with superhuman abilities and a mysterious past.

This is the story of how these people came together, and how they managed to save the universe.
All of them.

view book 42 comments
incomplete
 
The Fall

 

The Fall
Phil Grey
rank 5450

The Fall

Phil Grey

As the end of the world arrives, humanity has a plan to survive.


Beset by enemies on all sides, humanity is struggling to survive, but a small group have a plan to grant humanity a second chance.

A great ship, an ark, to send the final remnant of humanity skywards one last time.

Enough people to colonise a world, enough range to reach the very edges of space… but can the ship be completed in time?

How will their enemies respond if they discover this plan?

What will happen if it all goes wrong?

Entrusted to the care of a single man, humanity must prepare to face its destiny head on, or be lost completely to the depths of time.

view book 9 comments
complete
 
The Tower

 

The Tower
Phil Grey
rank 5450

The Tower

Phil Grey

Legends tell of a maiden trapped by an ancient curse, that she cannot be freed. One man sees a way to rescue her from darkness.


A tale of love, loss, fell creatures and noble deeds.

In a realm where magic is strong there exists a place of unspeakable evil. Within a darkened tower is a maiden trapped since time immemorial. It is said that none can ever be with her, that she will never know love. That the curse cannot be undone.

But one man, a bounty hunter, thinks he sees a different way to read the curse, a way to bypass the evil. He does not want to be be with her, but to free her. It is audacious, but he has commissioned the finest blacksmith, the most powerful warlocks to his cause in the hopes that he can prepare well enough to see his goal to fruition.

view book 3 comments
complete
 

my friends

view all

leave me a message

click here to leave a message

latest

Diwrite wrote 105 days ago

Dear Phil, Pascual lost his birthday in the Spanish Civil War. No....

ScottTrimas wrote 118 days ago

Hi would you mind reading and commenting on my book The Chimera Facto....

CaileD wrote 125 days ago

Dear Phil, Thank you so much for backing my book. I now have 42 back....

CaileD wrote 130 days ago

Thanks, Phil! Any comments...??:-) All the best! DJC

AndrewStevens wrote 135 days ago

As a fan of William Holt's terrifically involving 'Faust's Butterfly'....

view all

my comments

latest

I wrote 412 days ago

When/if I publish this story, I plan to add some fancy break symbols for each of the time skips to give people a heads up. Sometimes authonomy doesn't take too kindly to certain fonts or pieces of art though. The Ark/Last Hope thing is probably a problem with my writing actually, because I', a ... view book

I wrote 461 days ago

This is something impressively different compared to everything else I've seen here on Authonomy. I have added it to my watchlist as it certainly deserves close inspection in all aspects. view book

I wrote 465 days ago

You know, I had intended to do just a couple of chapters as something of a (very belated) return read, and here I am all the way up to chapter 9 without really noticing it. The story flows fast and easy, and the characters are relateable, all good qualities in a piece of fiction for children and you... view book

I wrote 508 days ago

Thanks for the comment Susie. There is in fact another book in the works—slowly, as it were—but sharing the same general setting as this one. I'm not sure as to when it will be finished, but rest assured that one day it will be. view book

I wrote 572 days ago

Thanks for a great comment and some good constructive criticism. I was wondering if I was getting the right balance between pace and description, action and exposition, so that's a great help. Also, would you care to expand on that last sentence a bit please? view book

view all