Marti Ward
Marti Ward is well known is his secret identity as a mild-mannered scientist who turns fiction into fact. Marti's stories turn fact into fiction, exploring and explaining futures built from all kinds of new technologies. He has also been known to indulge in parody. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Fantastic Schools and Antipodean SF. His novels have all garnered awards and achieved best seller status in various Amazon categories. Marti's father, B. Ward Powers, was a SciFi fan and author too, and particularly influential on both of them were the dragonriders of Anne McCaffrey and the robot detective stories of Isaac Asimov. Recently Marti Ward has been bringing the stories of B. Ward Powers to a wider audience (the Moonchild Rising collection appearing on the day of his death) - and they have been winning awards too. Currently Klandor Encounter is a finalist in the Realm Awards.
Science Fiction
Casindra Lost, Moraturi Lost, Time for PsyQ, Moonchild Testing, Klandor Encounter ...
Marti's "Appearance of Magic Universe" is inspired by Arthur C Clarke's adage that any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic. The books put the science and the magic back into science fiction. In the Lost Missions to the Andromeda galaxy you meet and teach an AI, and must engineer your own survival - with the help of a couple of cats. "I recommend 'Casindra Lost' for hard-core sci-fi fans who love seeing science fact come alive in their science fiction." Karen Siddall, Reedsy Discovery In Time for PsyQ, you learn with Airlie about Brain Computer Interface and Quantum Psychology, and about how important friends are. "Highly recommended for tweens and teens." Emerald Book Review of Time for PsyQ Moonchild Rising is set in the colonies of this solar system, and focuses on the prejudices and crimes that somehow stay the same - as human nature doesn't change. "There's plenty of drama to keep readers hooked." Wishing Shelf Awards on Moonchild Rising Moonchild Irene overcomes the prejudices against her and leads a mission to Alpha Centauri there, but then finds herself in a difficult position because of not allowing the navigator/chauffer/cook to speak in the scientific meetings about the intelligent creatures that he's encountered - and has been teaching English. "All in all, a bit of a gem!" Wishing Shelf Book Review of Klandor Rising
