Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Iron II: Unknown Place, Unknown Universe
Iron II: Unknown Place, Unknown Universe
Iron II: Unknown Place, Unknown Universe
Ebook412 pages6 hours

Iron II: Unknown Place, Unknown Universe

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars

()

Read preview

About this ebook

*** Get 3 BOOKS FREE > lazloferran.com *** Book 1 Running: The Alien in the Mirror is FREE.

Three rookie space cadets crash on an unknown planet with aliens hot on their tail!

While a dissident alien scientist struggles to control time, he discovers that his wife will betray him. His favourite student discovers a way to see into the past but find himself surrounded by enemies in a complex, fragmenting culture.

Meanwhile, Stone, douchebag son of Iron Cross winner Jake Nanden, a nerd and a feminist from the Space Fleet Academy crash-land on an unknown planet after falling through a worm-hole in this gripping and visionary science fiction thriller.

Called Anubians by humans, the jackal-headed aliens are now revealed as Ischians but they are hiding something on this unknown planet in an unknown universe.

Stone’s universe is shattered while he tries to escape and warn Earth of danger..

If you like Stargate, Flight of the Phoenix, Stephen Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke or Greg Bear, you will just have to read this thought-provoking part two of the epic Iron Series.

The amazing final part of this adventure, Worlds Like Dust, is now available!

Categories: non-fiction, philosophy, metaphysics, fiction, science fiction, visionary, alien contact, clones, history.

Character interview with Jake Nanden.

Name (s): Jake Nanden
Age: 34

Please tell us a little about yourself.
I am 5’11’, dark hair, short – Army cut, slightly curly. Green eyes.

Describe your appearance in 10 words or less.
Getting middle aged, slightly paunchy with drying skin – like paper in places – except my mech arm. That’s synthetic skin on there and as smooth and supple as the day it was sprayed on. I even had mine tattooed but don’t tell anyone.

Would you kill for those you love?
I kill every day – most days – to keep my culture intact. I would say that is killing for those I love. Of course there is a moral code... And as a soldier the moral code is almost everything. After a while... killing... it sometimes seems to be the only thing you have left. Family are too far away.

Do you like animals?
I love animals. Their love is unconditional. You can never quite be sure with humans, can you?

Do you have a family?
Ha! Ha! Yes. A test-tube. No seriously my mother – Mary, my sister Justine and a dog – a collie called Frisky. My adoptive dad was the famous robotics designer Robert R. Nanden but he’s dead. My mother was his assistant and pretty accomplished at that!
Can you remember something from your childhood which influences your behaviour? I am not sure about any of my childhood memories. They are probably all implanted. I am a replicant. The first memory I am sure about is playing on the grass with my adoptive mother watching me playing cricket.
She shouted out, “Jake! You are such a talented cyborg!”
Even at my tender age, I knew a replicant was not the same thing as a cyborg and I knew that she should know, as her first husband had been a famous robot designer. Her words had always stuck in my head.
But anyway, adoptive parents of replicant children are always told to create some vivid experience for their kid in the first few days so that the imprinting takes properly. So it’s probably not significant.
Do you have any phobias?
Mirrors. Can’t stand them. They make me sweat and... well, I’m very nervous around them. I avoid them.

Please give us an interesting and unusual fact about yourself.
I write books – well, I am writing my first; a detective thriller. It’s kind of Raymond Chandler-ish. I call it Chandleresque, but I guess that’s bad English. My adoptive parents are first generation J5 – that’s a space station – so they kinda inherited a USAC – United States of America and Canada – accent. Anyway, I am rambling. The main character is Dusty. He’d a sucker for the pretty ladies!

LanguageEnglish
PublisherLazlo Ferran
Release dateMar 24, 2012
ISBN9781311375315
Iron II: Unknown Place, Unknown Universe
Author

Lazlo Ferran

Lazlo Ferran: Exploring the Landscapes of Truth. Educated near Oxford, during English author Lazlo Ferran's extraordinary life, he has been an aeronautical engineering student, dispatch rider, graphic designer, full-time busker, guitarist and singer, recording two albums. Having grown up in rural Buckinghamshire Lazlo says: "The beautiful Chiltern Hills offered the ideal playground for a child's mind, in contrast to the ultra-strict education system of Bucks." Brought up as a Buddhist, he has travelled widely, surviving a student uprising in Athens and living for a while in Cairo, just after Sadat's assassination. Later, he spent some time in Central Asia and was only a few blocks away from gunfire during an attempt to storm the government buildings of Bishkek in 2006. He has a keen interest in theologies and philosophies of the Far East, Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe. After a long and successful career within the science industry, Lazlo Ferran left to concentrate on writing, to continue exploring the landscapes of truth.

Read more from Lazlo Ferran

Related to Iron II

Related ebooks

Science Fiction For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for Iron II

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings

0 ratings0 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

    Book preview

    Iron II - Lazlo Ferran

    cbook_preview_excerpt.html}˒F EYdQc3%hYS-Q4%iZz(`pU0GI}su#,Z}8a8|azۻoϿ ݣ.3u7>ΏʫN/woݽz}w_~nl6ԅ!]cT]lalbe8]N՗}_ c~|7OSm1ǮM|,+ ᡒڇyNB0orTlƣTCFCTrA,;<ˏSz<-zxzu\w֍x.{rCTr=n b;EB:ݻݩ%}] Mnhkn`T]\Tg AlM_}WwO\bQTo9~X>{qou/oǽ!oଂ)~MʏaS}F3HcT "ϐyz״_fy;!ˌ_ϻO3(:\c\HPV^~S?~Vڏ놪nj=! Ța;cgE=i9NNP g%/;vɍ PGmD溣9=هل,D$yϲ 0o (Q+`waA ?a j7JK'$<+&RO' YZ.O$JVA`~F5Y&I5&*j ~pB7v}uUV_dyw;.9Nx? xAӟAo+C#W_q?olHNAtF - $qIX4:boߐqAvǫFܸQQ 4'qN>xpIyXTZՈT{*1x8 `U"8YHhxDNPW$nZ)=;֝(Mjyky?4{#/'n!ʜ.A- "N c$"$@c#ϗQV:%^6'C==N7F?[)78=\M$Cujy]i^G/e'vn/M  MGev?nţ? u'k:ݩȱ9~ZhSdo߄3"~VrS;բy=gY^= 㐓*R%]q}8EK#ގWiN~45àM|bwWml ij! ;ν%c<`I#N +:rXյ?M+ZNkd4;d ,"p? wSrEቴ2׮Wa[h=P刅Pt]9d+J0Nn&;A5Bi P˲Sbfhc̻X˽=TpVj +L&'^ROT(Y\]ѥWI~Gᦺz,<ꍎՉ}x˖w%uQ^}VoV'׳-4C脳D Y_4x/! bͼ{?o A)n9Y7p=增{(ͫtuc'D(BYu_2 鯲jKnøf;[ s{ KzMzƶ;- J`WTzCK:P/'"O`|pdXE`dm$"">e+aSyTE#}Ȍ![XOX)gQ1͝?0K UYelׅ;_ ͽp跉zbf#/b[\/KmǓ?4H sAy>+1OЁ% =Wʉ(v8 HVED?GG/_epz0,bi,T"AD v>%@Q7نOb"6P=U+u~rrq=/0깜%ųV_s ,nBi [DJA }1J(_naݐ,F(CQpt]= +21oNN%KBBu^⃮WK (YժAr eyڪ֋u}VSCtҊ&[Xur%á7%;d&]yr;';\:Ɋlg -B`|Ng]iy[+Ψx$>b_d[c4MgYԷdQE{3e"㥮귐mO- *L1޺9& }{1Buj wI '\"hnh|&#j sHd\pس7t\XisZ; ]; 5;g5="Ƈ6re'qB8 R: um؋O)]u=X*ɻ~W@BU1p+xѭrηraFɎU2ê~B5/Z֍ݔ\B 01"8( MKI",@n2/P?l 04c4Qo[DcS+n:B'oPUY__Dqk9%Uͧ#װ1Aޡ νu͗D`jĶiGQAȜsR4M B6aD-C^u\]sƇ#rPՇC5 p? \Y~ >rߋr&Ą1(ȷ,MjM3ȱ{[UXiiО0<.\C/ nJ: v5ocfpU/Pe]*{! |]Yp:nm٩Ǔ QL=vYC GMJdh _џ׉m-!fɅS0lW@49] Fz,jD<i#]V^ry{⪃x}]+y=B D]vj9wK %gG)ytGpœ`K)bhr.1l1?5e2*!JRHKXG}`by\•ϱ0O+Af`[82 dBqQ /L2'uFSwI B%Td蚒*tWmc×D"[zmb-=<뒃`_jS!gѧ 'ى}0^u[˛ طjW|4fU"Ϗݔtо}S0Xa{U T*_ğlsQ3 7 C S `zOF8?=_18SG(*d-INЌa|jctͭyn@}!t;Ul[輾,{n RnRL){yRsHN=a"{~g©` A4q"IOD62 T)G8O (HZ9D[<ߟ༪oqʮ{e4 *VO6uR*#D,@]B2PM-X]4; rx-+SP ?6 N]#ܧc./xL~|hOQ>FFyWzjL~dz;S7L?XQaiF }7Yzn,7k?'|iY"S)=H]ڲДA*# !tvRfHame֠:~c0X"= S+/):FK.N{Jjj)"pCty7$`%FDـ5`]=pm>L֝h&޲rptĐI D q)NJ?6(e={J4H ĺBn;gK 8e+?V wQOQYX`&~)3bWdu %P@aZ9C*f DE&F"rF ?0ncX V@lDRJ5uc$3WP\`&CS@OP(!=Ѳ4 xqj;-kOci񠞰ܴvų@P-")ʾ(oNDDeZ6Ӓ*JhX% >UP p}QY` UNJJ( `/Ѓ!%pHungrKw0>Y6Ǭ!+E\Y5sMa&?6!$eR% $MR/F G`xeJ&L-?I(:AxKۮ͛@6 T #8/G܃n S^p p4[GV@L\kfMg^uէ^rB,Q ,3FsV/LeÌ(Їq bJ8$PnȽ':^CejbqJâKv̎]%΢rA:paY(-X`p՝lXXXqrj ?>gabLZ;% ~,(v]! CMIz4xӧsEƒC~5t1UO$K}Yh<5`R>HJΡNQ\MC+E49&HM{ `; OtR`Epl$og1eOyJ:E)r[񱞤&@W) `]Npp`ᒂ;SAXD$[X 趗  ɎxC;p PyPetL Ev^vh $g.d|DyBU }^B#nE.>o"ZVsq?ulhP@3+d0LOǂIkr_P ?C54_*&- ;W?8+Uw#4,p?REUlS)WWָED>BȖ@&XCq h#@b¶x ^7$,&A>4 /[-_1%L p{C'YA Kcɜk((@G|7~x8B*X ZB:YE~ T* ؘ*|wpdQC8ɭ4frIEF䭷wVdE],`hg|K '`EḨ35E%)&Cv2VCeCqnxX0!4k)z2,c/b8 ՠ<ȼX:v%b/"gl#%f7] ى:u}m lϖ^\$4c*:QI CtTxq á -h7ً{4bTYkD'mAP(TP a17 u("wZD'H@s:bB#nِKR»r}Ι;z9W 6hIގ c~F$1!q_tr- ͔^R(>i J^Un&9̜IaN[`Sܘ0՝m 2;*bDI]p[T7 ~- hEQ/ =?߻vNuRa+F sB3o?R~Kh> fv~J[S:5W .9[ M(}'gż]r(yb Tr*WE :eK~JZs<5uPdVᖊE3F|6ɱC)a#c=KxMqkhx5a֧m[(~F )g:хko >KvcEc)ġzxR}d~iI|$>\8P]2R4)[1eYs0u&T\$F(Usu ܮ-FLgZg{T:\X VI|{¨ypc`0p>?m%]Zg|Mm{@rĭZ{ <5Y90-,ˑ<%?si{[1QnT|JE`6;6ߧtCgf+|VMn6<#*W0Z&SFOPXOlXj\*Q}`B쵂hƢhNW%V{J@̑<"M9qjCCT/)dg@%AСnvS^[6/ff}B>]W[*]-ejYhBaާ_NCDk|δxS$CoelB A]XóߕZuyCmRO˧'q0D8@ϩ7«pNPՊ8NӉZǨ({zwEhG+ 16UeV%U 1= | ct?k+Rg>𢿗dcP"Mdf<&Uu:6*]½>Nr|c4\K 炒U%r3f߻V;>&=ꦓ:^RS, 4Dt%F6Sy(Kr5w,ykm'JNK9O lER~ ,T!{ʡ"<׸mJ[pqOz8> $gm/725cRJ%0/W)+SiRzes(d4qgBau`oXZB X6T&#hσgTSR`f"nqlnjCФ@|KlÔAbt2`z:-VlY:%{ Jd)':ȉuÔRb bc'dأ%9:+y+&&ܩU$(~3T,J::1p"1V[a'hg=avɹ^G3f|gæhX/bϚP:@qd@>%3oe(txlIN!vc*R^ՒȄW{{l]ml"hK e*߷%<6yBگR:V̀w*<|?`~UX#Z-6kgy)*CّfRY=-v`Vec/Goǀ1%nWo&Gky+`^%Z] PփhE W)T/)kjb(eE˵f'bKݓa/ sa>11d L)X5fN%mҢ0t h'{P$^)W1@B?- ){sef. Z!wJ̶T?xQߝ?ݰ|GOmyeŒ IUu Y~He'Aq=B)n9zo>3ODA56F#w:O"pe#*FO|+.V5q,|Rfgˢ ~A{ yQH@b58OߙϥumR,B;E0cvϑ/^_LY{TcLE) +x [j"Ckj׷'Kx]~_>_U4ֻC,A/*Ω:LYnIQv%?vxl&kFjGр`5ȏO4`ŁۑN,h~4ٴ¿"t 7 s)!vƑ,EBiBK|)ko&z)FD>UGpK䡙LydkLVw ,}*U @8rnQKܱV&_0t~h$kQfߡ;+p:>.xjQhgzid.<Т Rq*֓9W CS[, "!]tcgw (T:[èuXּ: JVxH! ]L;i?46dcq?E_0녉A9dGӤ_&{C:#ZkjO("I: 1Eko!Dϴ96%eˇjRhD+$p ^ZzM׳b!ӏTԮ?VuHk~=8a.4-%aMXUHiqKaח̽&jMh@f_zrWa^z-) ۭ)!DNKlD<{OEv"7< g"DWP҇)O|B <#q#FU6œKTvyq вD BicwV,;`] ̝A ejtJTvgPi!0;Pi-Ȱkv'd({BEkck~rUk0  #*aclHGG/vuV:f(VZ]U_l0S2{{Ychyp~K ˜}7Z"Vqz9CmȬ 1pb-i~k6ic`BsQ|1Zd]:eĖ\a.X@ӑ:Owrh(<(dH| a<-h>ƛ0#^? R閥ҴT1,.xV o,/awd~mI?Ȃ]cnQmtt> ,{[AN78*.ciׅ봯R铰;VbC |++ѥܮ'lL:u Ʈy׈E* E#4ј?jCh Lnס\eF/*O\ZPs,Y~
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1