The SimCavalier Series
As blackmail and treachery unleash a storm of cybercrime, how many lives will be lost?
Cameron Silvera, aka the SimCavalier, is a hacker legend known for bringing systems back online, fast. When cyber criminals hold the world to ransom, the SimCavalier stops them in their tracks. But now she is their target, and she’s fighting for her life.
The Travels of Finch
Meet Finch. Cocktail lover, enthusiastic tourist, not yet wise to the ways of the galaxy.
Finch is a young avian on a mission to see the galaxy. There's plenty of danger out there on strange planets and in pirate-infested shipping lanes. Granny's old guide book from her travels a century earlier may help, or it could lead Finch into mortal peril.
Praise for the SimCavalier series
The writing is beautiful, clear and engaging. It has a twisting plot that keeps you hooked to the last and well drawn characters.
What a rush. This is a great story about the world of cybercrime and about how our future will look.
An Accidental Author
Blogs, childhood fan fiction, business reports and text books - sure. Speculative scifi? Never.
The first SimCavalier novel came as something of a surprise, written after a friend suggested that cybersecurity might be less dry as fiction. Cameron Silvera and the Argentum Associates team burst into life in Bitcoin Hurricane in 2017. Hacked Future and Tangled Fortunes followed, making up the Hacked trilogy. Critical Nexus started off a whole new story arc that continues in Unstable Realities. The Metaverse trilogy will be rounded off by book six, Quantum Breach, coming in 2025.
While these books were brewing, a little avian by the name of Finch started making a regular appearance in my imagination, and their book was launched in February 2025.
The Galia Books imprint publishes the Finch stories and other projects that are coming soon.
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Latest Release: The Travels of Finch
A young avian is taking a rite of passage round the galaxy trip, following in the footsteps of their redoubtable grandmother. But it's not all plain sailing. The Travels of Finch is now available in ebook, audiobook and paperback from this website and all major retailers.
Finch first appeared in a serious book about blockchain and cryptocurrency. I needed an example of a space traveller arriving in port and buying a cocktail without any messing around in the interplanetary exchange booth. After racking my brains for an appropriate passage, I remembered I was a sci-fi writer, and wrote one myself. A few months later I found myself wondering what had happened to this little character, so I went to check on them. A short story, Finch, appeared in an anthology in 2020, and this led on to nine other adventures that all appear in The Travels of Finch.