Eternity Beckons now available on Amazon
Book 8 in the series, Eternity Beckons, is now available from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0C6P6G3QH This story has some very dark parts so probably not suitable for under 16’s (living brains being removed and put into machines, human cannibalism), but there’s also the welcome return of the Dragons of Mithgryr (a few hundred years after our last visit) and the Siphians (several billion years after our last trip), so it’s not all horror. The book takes you from London just after the Industrial Revolution to the end of the universe in 8 chapters (and the number of chapters is a clue as to the approach). The back blurb:
Thanks to an accident, Alex finds herself within the computer, Omskep, but without an avatar. She has no means of escape until everything in the prime universe is dead, trillions of years in the future. With Almega guiding the crossovers, Alex jumps from universe to universe across the millennia, while Daniel acts as her aid and her only contact with Almega and the way home.
The problem is that this time neither she nor Daniel can choose where they go, and the darker side of the multiverse is sometimes revealed.
Fortan, as ever in that particular branch of Oestragar, is the troublemaker. This is our original universe, which we haven’t visited since the first three books. Remembering that Alex and Daniel forgot their fixes after the ‘great reset’ at the end of Ystrian Dreams, these are universes they don’t remember visiting, making this a series of discoveries for them, even in the worlds we already know. We also get to meet the subjects of the next 3 books: the Djaroubi — an otter-like species whose brains are being removed and used as the processing units in robotic slave labour; holohumans — the only remnants of a medical disaster who are being edited if they complain, and used by the corporations as an endless source of power and wealth; and the Vynarians — a cross between a flying fox and a humanoid who have sought out a planet with lower gravity so that they can fly in a world that hasn’t yet been built up and over-run. But lower gravity means larger things, and some of those things see the Vynarians as food.
I’m now 5 chapters into book 9 (title as yet unknown. It’ll come to me) and it’s going well.