BRID: Fight or Flight
The Journey to BRID
BRID: Fight or Flight is my debut science-fiction novel but it’s been a lifetime in the writing. The book is set in a post-apocalyptic future London where, ecologically, what can go wrong, has gone wrong. It brings to life the unimaginable horror of those extreme macro-photography insect images we’ve all seen and shuddered at. And it feeds off my lifelong fascination with nature – especially insects. I, like my children, was raised on a steady diet of the incomparable Sir David Attenborough’s profoundly informative documentaries. But it’s the fast-paced nature of some of the one-on-one fight scenarios – Brid v Sect – that my early readers have been struck by. Action sequences that are, I feel, a product of the extensive travel I experienced in my early years. On the journey from boyhood to (relative) maturity.
Everywhere I’ve travelled to has both informed and inspired me. The sprawling rainforests of the Congo with Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes. Plumbing the ocean depths in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Scouting Middle Earth with Tolkien’s Hobbit. Sneaking around vampire-ridden LA in Richard Matheson’s chilling I am Legend. Confronting a leviathan in the mountainous green seas with Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. My constant reader’s passport has been emphatically stamped throughout space and time.
Non-stop adventure. Appalling odds. Monstrous forces. Perpetual peril. The human spirit. And now, the human-hybrid spirit. These are the experiences from which BRID was born...
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