More by Alex Kozlowski
In Albury Adrian and his team must face the most terrifying of all enemies. His fellow humans.
Book 4 of Alpha Physics continues Adrian's journey to get to Melbourne, and he realizes sometimes the only path to success is to do things slower.
He has promised to accept the quest for Jules' sake but his interface is also adamant that completing the quest is the only way he reaches Melbourne. Not only will he need to find the fortitude to kill he will also need to work out how to complete the quest requirements. Despite everything he has achieved and his own growth, the crime family that has taken over the town of Albury are both stronger and richer than them. They will need to use every trick in the book to defeat them, while knowing that the stakes are real and mistakes have consequences.
The team has done everything right. They have killed off all of Adhava’s kids and in doing so denied her reinforcements, but now she has fled into a dungeon.
Adrian and his team need to hunt her down. Track her, find her and then destroy her in an environment she knows, controls and has had time to prepare to kill interlopers. It is not an exercise as Training Facilities in the Alpha Physic framework has the real chance of death and with Adhava trying to ambush them at every moment it is going to be a tough fight.
With discipline and luck, they might pull through and if they do the reward is a free Albury and a heap of experience that will position Adrian and the team to make the trip to Melbourne. If they fail… there are no second chances.
Upgrading himself might be more dangerous and more painful than Adrian ever imagined, but some risk and agony is not about to stop him.
Adrian survived the first three weeks, and by sheer luck he saved Wagga Wagga by killing the Bird. Now he needs to get back to his family, but his non-sapient interface somehow has its own ideas. That is something he must deal with because Adrian refuses to be a puppet and there too much overt manipulation going on for his comfort.
Then, to complicate things, a new monster is threatening Wagga. He wants to get up and leave; it is not his problem but there is a lure of power from the salamander lizards and people he knows are being killed, so it is not that easy to just walk away. Delay after delay is stopping him from starting his journey and the pressure is building.
The monsters are getting smarter and the threat level on the road to Melbourne seems to keep increasing as he learns more and as he explores the reasoning behind the system that has been introduced the horror of the Alpha event becomes apparent.
The system did not lie when it talked about this being an extinction level event and while nothing would stop him from trying to reach his family, the difficulty of the journey is real and there would be things out there that were worse than the Bird.
He is going anyway.
Join Adrian as he helps Wagga and himself one last time and then sets out to discover how the towns between him and Melbourne have fared with the apocalypse.
The apocalypse may have re-written the rules of Physics but not humanity.
Adrian and his companions, continue their journey toward Melbourne. The pathway through the post apocalypse landscape continues to be harrowing and, as they travel, they run into dysfunctional towns that need their help and they must find unorthodox solutions to defeat the monsters that plague the landscape. Some of which are an extinction level threats.
Throughout it all, he focuses on growing the strength of himself and his team and getting to Melbourne as quickly as possible.
Disquiet continues the magical story telling of the first two books of Alpha Physics.
In the apocalypse, the first weapon he’ll have to upgrade is himself.
The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for Adrian.
One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain. The earth’s surviving inhabitants, its environment, and the very laws of physics have all undergone fundamental transformations.
Many of those changes aren’t pretty. Plenty of them are deadly.
Luckily for Earth, this has happened to other species before, and everyone receives an interface that survivors of similar events have used to navigate through an alien landscape.
Adrian’s going to need every advantage he can get. He’s stranded in the middle of nowhere, there are days, maybe weeks of travel between him and his family, and in a world full of monsters and mayhem, survival means beating the learning curve…
Endlich in der deutschen Fassung.
In der Apokalypse wird die erste Waffe, die er aufrüsten muss, er selbst sein.
Das Ende der Welt, wie wir sie kennen, könnte für Adrian zu keinem schlechteren Zeitpunkt kommen.
In der einen Minute ist er ein Betriebsleiter, der eine Baustelle in der Wildnis beaufsichtigt. Im nächsten Moment verändert eine unbekannte Energie die Natur des Lebens selbst, vom kleinsten Organismus bis zur Spitze der Nahrungskette. Die überlebenden Bewohner der Erde, ihre Umwelt und die Gesetze der Physik haben sich grundlegend verändert.
Viele dieser Veränderungen sind nicht schön. Viele von ihnen sind tödlich.
Zum Glück für die Erde ist das auch schon anderen Spezies passiert. Von ihnen erhält jeder automatisch ein Interface, das Überlebende ähnlicher Ereignisse benutzt haben, um sich in einer fremden und doch vertrauten Umgebung zurechtzufinden.
Adrian wird jeden Vorteil brauchen, den er bekommen kann. Er ist mitten im Nirgendwo gestrandet, zwischen ihm und seiner Familie liegen Tage, vielleicht Wochen und in einer Welt voller Monster und Chaos bedeutet Überleben, schneller zu lernen, als alle anderen...