Category: Novel
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My five star fantasy adventure novel review
The first five-star review of my fantasy adventure has landed! 5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh and Imaginative Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2025 Format: Kindle I must say that it seems to me like a great deal of contemporary fantasy is either gratuitous angst, cringe-worthy remixes of hackneyed clichés or essentially just…porn…
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Game of Runes Book 5: The Jade Caverns
Game of Runes Book 5: The Jade Caverns Download your free Game of Runes Adventure sheets The Game of Runes gamebooksComplete five book series
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Nemo’s Fury book launch

It’s a momentous day for us here on the Nautilus, as we’ve delivered our manuscript for the physical gamebook of our science fictions adventure, Nemo’s Fury to Amazon. Nemo’s Fury launches on Thursday 30th November and here’s a preview for all you lovely people of the cover. We hope you like it! * Over 900…
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Your fast guide to Captain Nemo

The work of Jules Verne continues to entertain movie and TV fans even if his books are less popular than they once were. So if you don’t know anything about Captain Nemo other than vague pop cultural references or having only seen the Disney adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the sea, I’ve put together a…
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My top five science fiction and fantasy holiday reads

As well as being a lifelong sci-fi and fantasy fan, and a film critic, I’m also a digital gamebook writer and illustrator, and I just wanted to share some of my favourite holiday reads with you all. Number 1The World for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinFirst published in 1972 this exciting, sad…
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea part VI. The voyage
Verne’s novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea takes the reader on a whistle-stop voyage of adventure around the globe, giving my gamebook app adaptation of the book, Nemo’s Fury a global scope. I can take the player anywhere in the world in the Nautilus. And as I wanted to be reasonably faithful to Verne’s work,…
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea part V. Crew of the Nautilus
Jules Verne was very clear about the crew of Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus. They are all male, subservient to Nemo and die on the voyage. And the crew dying off during the course of the voyage of the adventure is a gift to a writer, especially as at least one dies in very mysterious…

