The Price of Freedom series stands at four books so far and has sold thousands of copies, but author Chris Northern is cursed with originality and just can’t help writing other stories. For example, the world ends not with a bang but with a straitjacket in the Dancing with Darwin stories, where humanity struggles against serious competition for the position of apex predator first time while also fighting their own unique mental disorders. And Just for fun Space Opera in Loser’s Flight, cowboys in space. Enjoy!
The Last King’s Amulet (The Price Of Freedom)
Chris Northern
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Genre: Fantasy
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My name is Sumto, and everyone thinks I am a gambling, lazy, good-for-nothing drunk. Frankly, I think they have a point. Right now I may have to join the army and fight in a war I am frankly too corpulent to cope with.
Still, it looks like being a small, short war. So that’s got to be as bad as things get. Am I right?
Trained in his youth for war and politics, Sumto is interested in neither. As the son of a Patron, he should gather clients, acquire wealth, learn magic, husband a political power base and take his place amongst the Assembly of Patrons, the rulers of the city. Sumto would rather gather friends, acquire books, learn history, husband a hangover and take his place at the gambling tables.That is not going to be an option for much longer.
Unknown to Sumto, everything is about to change.There is a war in the north and Sumto is about to become a very unwilling participant.
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All The King’s Bastards (The Price of Freedom)
Chris Northern
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Genre: Fantasy
All The King’s Bastards is the last of the four novels in The Price of Freedom sequence.
My name is Sumto and I was once content to drink and gamble and idle my days away in the company of good books, dubious friends and casual women. Still, money and power have their lure and I have accepted I must acquire them as a matter of survival.
As the son of a Patron, Sumto has set his feet unsteadily upon a path that will one day allow him to take his place amongst the Assembly of Patrons, the rulers of the city. Banned from remaining in the north, Sumto must return to the city to face trial for a range of charges that culminate in treason. A trial he confidently expects to win.
Unknown to Sumto, his enemies in the Assembly have other plans for his future and have already taken action against him.
The last of four novels that follow the career of Sumto, a reluctant hero of dubious morals.
- Book One: The Last King’s Amulet
- Book Two: The Key To The Grave
- Book Three: The Invisible Hand
- Book Four: All The King’s Bastards
The four novels are best considered to be one novel in four parts, though each is novel length.
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Evolving Environment: Dancing with Darwin
Chris Northern
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Genre: Science Fiction
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Most humans must died, he decided. He was not human and did not think in human ways. He called himself Rhamno Nem after some thought on the matter.
His intent was to make a world on which his selected peoples could establish themselves without being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the native species. A good number of humans would have to die quite rapidly, he decided. It wouldn’t take much; if they were not sane they would not make rational decisions and would for the most part eliminate themselves. He estimated that by the time a new stability had been reached, five or six billion humans would have died. He viewed it more as a massive extinction event than genocide. Rhamno Nem had a rather different perspective of life than most sentient creatures. He held rather more of a dispassionate and long term view of things. For his own species’ to be assured survival he had to spread their genomes throughout the Galaxy, on every habitable planet encountered. To achieve that, such planets must be adjusted in whatever manner seemed necessary. Here, there were simply far to many of the indigenous intelligent species, far too much competition and already technologically advanced. Most of them would have to go. But he would make preparations to be sure it was not all. He was not a monster, after all. He didn’t mind humanity existing – in fact he would help the species survive in the long term in many subtle ways – it’s just that their current numbers were an inconvenience.
They knew about survival of the best adapted and had a fairly good theory of evolution; it had been a while, but it was time for humanity to once more become involved in a dance for survival.
After making his preparations, he triggered the nanovirus that would ensure that humanity, no longer sane, would tear itself apart.
While Dana is working to save the rainforests, someone else is working to end the world. When it all hits the fan, Dana seeks refuge with the last person on earth she would have believed possible – her new friend in the oil industry.
Evolving Environment is the third story to be released of a series of many parts, collectively known as Dancing with Darwin. Evolving Environment is approx 11,850 words (Maybe 33 print pages).
The Dancing with Darwin stories can be read in any order.
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Dancing with Darwin
Chris Northern
Genre: Science Fiction
Dancing with Darwin
Four stories of people caught up in the insanity of the end of the world and the madness that is the beginnings of a new one.
Headed Home – When the army is sent into Los Angeles to contain an epidemic of inanity, Sheena must cope with a growing awareness of her own instability while surviving the madness all around her.
Evolving Environment – Dana has spent her life fighting to conserve the rain forests against the rapacity of civilization. When the world goes mad, Dana is forced to attempt to supply civilization to those who are too mad to know the task is impossible.
Rapture Ready – Claire is comfortably certain of her own future until the world goes mad and tries to take her with it. When her new and fragile stability is threatened, Claire must discover if she is ready to rise to the challenge.
Dangerous Delusions – When his town succumbs to insanity, Sam fights against his own personal madness as he struggles to establish a new stability for himself and those around him. His belief that he has succeeded is challenged when two friend he believes to be mad bring their dangerous delusions to his home.
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Loser’s Flight
Chris Northern
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
Cowboys in Space! In the far future Automatics run everything – at least, everything that works at all.
Susa is a young girl whose view of the world is conditioned by a society where all physical needs are met by Automatics that operate beyond human control, giving the gift of civilization… but only for a lucky few. Exiled in the company of a boy who seems just as innocent, Susa finds herself pursued, and soon discovers that the world outside is the least of her troubles. Less
Susa is an innocent girl whose view of the world is conditioned by a society where all physical needs are met by Automatics that operate beyond human control, giving the gift of civilization… but only for a lucky few.
The ordered, regulated life of Home centered around the games that seemed like life and death events that Susa trained for her whole life. Failure to win a place meant exile, tantamount to a death sentence. Losers are exiled into a world where technology and civilization have long since failed.
Exiled in the company of a boy who seems just as innocent, Susa finds herself pursued, and soon discovers that the world outside is the least of her troubles.
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