John Wegener

ALLi Author Member

Location: Australia & New Zealand

Genres: Thriller, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative

I'm a dreamer…always have been.

I have dreamed of flying to the stars since I was a child, looking up at the Milky Way on a moonless and cloudless winter’s night, wondering what’s out there.

I started writing in 2016 and now write full time. Ten published books later, I’m still writing strong with many more stories in my head for others to enjoy. My stories revolve around science fiction, primarily space based stories with as strong an element of hard science as I can place into the stories. This means they usually occur in the near future (next one to two hundred years). But I do delve into the fantastic sci fi for stories of intrigue and adventure other than hard science based ones.

Before taking up writing, I undertook chemical engineering in the steel industry for 35 years.

So I now write, drawing on my many experiences in exotic places throughout my working life. These were incredible at times! I also draw on many other experiences. Some are funny and interesting.

Being an avid reader, I read almost anything. It is common for me to read three or four books at the same time on completely differing topics, both fiction and non-fiction. I mainly enjoy reading science fiction and fantasy books, my favorite authors being Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and J.R.R. Tolkien. I also enjoy crime mysteries. Ancient and medieval history in Europe fascinate me and I use extrapolated facts from this history in my stories at times.

Cosmology, general relativity and quantum physics intrigue me. New concepts and understanding continually develop in these fields. This is exciting to me and is the way of the future. Humanity is finally escaping the shackles of Earth and seriously reaching out into space.

I rarely use aliens in my stories as the aliens I encounter in the stories I read are usually humans dressed up as aliens. So why not use humans. I do delve into genetic engineering. That is a realistic scientific development worth exploring in science fiction.

You can get to know me better by viewing my website and subscribing to my emails, where I provide more information on my activities and explore interesting topics. Or follow me on facebook.

I live in Wollongong, Australia with my wife and family.

John Wegener's books

FTL

aster Than Light space travel is a dream …
… Until Ethan Richards develops a drive to to do just that.
Once he establishes a team to build the drive and install it in a space ship, he hopes to share the technology for everyone to use.
During the drive’s development, his team realises it requires a mineral unavailable on Earth. But it’s plentiful on Iapetus, a moon of Saturn.
When Loki Mason, a businessman, hears of the drive and realises the wealth it could achieve for his empire, he wants the rights to the mineral. And Loki gets whatever he wants.
Ethan and Loki must race to Iapetus. Each knows he must get there first.

Centauri

Something happened… two million years ago.

Ethan Richards heads off to Alpha Centauri on his first interstellar adventure with a hand-picked team of experts. Arriving at the star they find two planets potentially suitable for life, but when they start exploring the most promising one, they may have found a threat to the existence of humanity.

A geological expedition discovers a closed off cave that has a shocking surprise hidden inside it. When his own people start falling ill and dying, Ethan knows he has a catastrophe on his hands.

Jade Powers is the woman Ethan loves, and when she falls ill, Ethan despairs, knowing she will also succumb to the potency of the exotic virus… unless they find a cure in time.

What is this virus… where did it come from… and can they develop a cure in time to save Jade?

Ceti

Someone is watching…

A mysterious star map found at Alpha Centauri leads Ethan Richards off on his next adventure with his wife Jade. Why is a map found at Alpha Centauri pointing to Tau Ceti where it was two million years ago?

As Ethan explores a habitable planet at Tau Ceti, they find something.

“That doesn’t look natural.”

When they investigate, they meet a mysterious alien who has his own agenda and secrets including a strange black block.

Loki Mason finds out about the alien, and he sees an opportunity to restore his flagging fortune. He travels to the planet and forces Ethan to take him to the alien, using Jade and his friends as hostage.

A gun battle has Jade clinging to life in Ethan’s arms, her blood on his hands. He has only one option to save her, but dare he risk both their lives to save hers?

Scorpius

The sting is in the tail!

Alex Warner rushes to Caerus to find the murderer of a Cetusian Ambassador.

Between an uncooperative son of the deceased, a grumpy partner, and an enigmatic Cetusian woman, Alex has his hands full just staying sane while he investigates the crime.

An Ambassador is a dangerous occupation as more are murdered in quick succession.

As he frantically searches for the serial killer, Alex realises someone else is pulling the strings, someone with a much deadlier game of punishment and payback.

He quickly finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy that could destroy the Galactic Confederation, subjugating one of its member races to repression and slavery.

Can Alex prevent the catastrophe before it enters its final phase?

Libra

I appeal to the President of the Confederation…

When a duke and duchess are murdered on Franconia and a Cetusian is convicted, he appeals to the Confederation as a last resort. Can the true murderer be brought to justice? And what is the motive?

Chooli has just graduated as a police officer and joined the GIA. She is asked to team up with her partner Alex to investigate the crime on the luxurious planet – one that has dark secrets.

Ignoring warnings to stop their investigation, Chooli is kidnapped by the assassin, making the pursuit personal for Alex, as he battles against time to save her.

When Chooli escapes her captors, she finds herself in the middle of a war when she is recaptured and stumbles on a monumental conspiracy that she must stop at all cost.

Can Alex find Chooli in time to save her? Can Chooli prevent a catastrophe? Can they both bring the mastermind behind it all to justice?

Halwende's Redemption

Halwende wants to forget his past… but can’t.

Halwende crash-lands on a planet that shouldn’t exist and is asked to help fight someone else’s civil war between the dethroned ruler from the usurper Egon, who intends making the king’s daughter, Adala, his bride.

When Adala pleads for Halwende’s help, he refuses her. But when he sees the people suffering at the hands of the tyrant, he remembers… and knows he must help them.

Surrounded by inexperienced fighters looking for a leader to guide them, Halwende must demonstrate the courage and desperation they need to win back what they lost, despite his self-doubts.

Betrayed, captured and tortured, he wonders what sort of mess he’s gotten himself into.

His sense of devastation returns when the despot captures Adala. Time is running out. Can he redeem his past guilt by rescuing Adala and saving her kingdom, even if he must die for it?

Halwende's Resurrection

Give me one chance, and I’ll change your mind. What do you say?
Sent out by Adala to negotiate trade deals with the Rigel Empire, Halwende runs into an old friend from the past and finds out he’s on the emperor’s wanted list.
When he returns to his home planet and his destroyed home, his past floods back to him and he realizes he must help the people he previously betrayed.
The emperor discovers Halwende is within reach and demands his capture. When someone he trusts betrays him, Halwende is tortured and humiliated by his enemies. But Halwende finds an unlikely ally who frees him from captivity.
Acting on suggestions from his old mentor, Halwende discovers a life changing secret that sets him on a collision course with his nemesis, General Barak, and the emperor himself.
Can he defeat the imperial forces and complete what he set out to do in the first place? What implications will this have for Adala and her people?
And how does Adala react when he returns?

Halwende's Reincarnation

I’ll rescue Adala, or I’ll die trying.
With the prospect of war imminent for Helheim, Adala is less than impressed with Halwende for bringing it to her. And she suspects he’s involved with another woman.
Once he smooths things out he impresses on her the inevitability of war with the Rigel Empire.
Acting on information he gleaned from the records on Eridu, Halwende discovers old empire warships that still use Flerovium crystals as their power source and believes he now has a fighting chance of overthrowing the emperor.
Destroying Barak’s fleet of warship, Halwende’s confidence of success escalates.
But when Adala is kidnapped and taken to Eridu, Halwende realises he must sacrifice himself to save Adala and her people.
Can he find a way to escape with Adala or is this the end for him after suffering so much loss?

Loki's Fall

No one takes my empire away from me.

Despite his criminal act in attempting to grab the Astatine deposit on Iapetus, Loki believes he is untouchable. Until someone goes after his business empire.

Unable to find the culprit, he has only one option… lure him into the open.

Will Loki discover his nemesis? Or is this just a smokescreen?

The Dark Ages

What would you do if you suddenly had no electricity?

The Earth enters a nebulous cloud, making everything that uses electricity obsolete, the people of Earth having to survive by living a life before electricity was harnessed.

Nelson bought a farm outside Seahaven, a small coastal town, for peace and quiet, until his daughter Rachel demands he help the town survive, and he grudgingly does her bidding. But then the town relies on him whenever they have a problem. After being shot, he's had enough and hikes out to the nearby mountains, and into danger.

Lawan, from the nearby city of Beretta, knows it's no longer safe. Looking for a safe place to live, she stumbles across Nelson. Can she assimilate into the township of Seahaven?

Sebastian, an underworld inhabitant of Beretta, realises his existing life is over. So he devises a plan to move to Seahaven and make it his own personal town, only to have Nelson get in his way. Sebastian intends giving Nelson an incentive to let him have what he wants…

Everyone thinks their problems are over until a gang of nomads ride into Seahaven and take it over as their own fiefdom. The residents look to Nelson again to save them. Knowing he must finally take a stand to protect the people he loves, Nelson confronts the nomads. Either they leave peacefully or he forces them to…

SAGI

A man, an AI, a world to change.
Oswald lives in a world of isolation, as do the remnant of humanity. Their only interactions occur using their Personal Reality machines. They have an hour each month to enjoy the outside air.
When Oswald accidently overstays his hour, he meets another human, Faye, for the first time. As they experience the difference of interacting in person, they question why they live as they do.
Determined to meet whoever controls their lives, Oswald and Faye embark on a trek to find this mysterious being.
After many adventures, including bring a baby into the world, they finally meet SAGI, hoping to find answers.
As it watches the physical interactions of the humans, SAGI realizes the limitations of its own existance amidst a sea of emotions. Oswald fears for their lives, hoping SAGI doesn’t go insane.
Can SAGI find happiness? Can they find a better life for humanity?

The Red River Boy

How can innocence survive in a world of evil?

His only wish is to return home, but will he be the same when he arrives?

An avalanche of red mud drives Donato, a 6-year-old boy, down river far from home. His mother is dead and father still at the only home he knows.

When he realises no one is coming to find him, he sets out to return on his own, but enters a world filled with dangers no 6-year-old should encounter.

Will those experiences change his life forever?

Will he ever see his father again?

Loading...