The Boy on the Train

The Boy on the Train

Martin Goodman

Martin Goodman

Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family Tom's a regular teenager – sullen, anxious, super-smart, feeling safe within his bedroom and wedded to his screen. On a packed train, a London commodities trader gets under his skin. The trader's got a fine wife, two kids, a yappy dog, big house, annual bonus. Tom hacks him. The trader's hardware becomes stuffed with dangerous, damaging images. Call it collateral damage. Hacking is what Tom does. He's got control of the keyboards of key players in the fossil fuel industry. If he doesn't bring down the grid, who will? Roads and trainlines lead the main players to a violent confrontation in the brutalist surrounds of London's Barbican Centre. Government agents work to prevent a global blackout. Tom's set to save the planet. Who will win?
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Lessons from Cruising

Lessons from Cruising

Martin Goodman

Martin Goodman

An assembly of tales, from Britain, the USA, and the seas in between, explore different expressions of the gay male experience. The Lovely Life of Arnold drops into the life of New York fashionista Arnold, in seven-year leaps from the age of seven to forty-two. From birth, Arnold's parents knew their family was perfect and complete, because nothing could be better than a gay son. Lessons from Cruising sees an Asian schoolteacher link up with a multi-millionaire businessman one early morning, by the Thames. They head out on the rich man's yacht, in the company of the rich man's son and friend. Billy Budd: Captain Vere's Account reprises Herman Melville's Billy Budd, but for the first time takes the reader inside the stateroom on the ship, where the captain confronts Billy with the verdict of the courtroom.
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Ectopia

Ectopia

Martin Goodman

Martin Goodman

A dystopian novel set around London's disused Heathrow Airport. For sixteen years the Earth has baked and no girls have been born. Karen's the last girl. Steven's her gay twin. Dad turns their home into a fortress as women take their chance to rule the world. Their eyes are on Steven. Perhaps, with a little medical interference, he could be the saviour of the world. The boys of teensquad run the streets, insects clog the skies, and scientists are cooking up a brand new Eden. Ectopia takes themes of gender, feminism, climate change, cloning, psychedelics, racism, and genetic modification and mixes them into a 21st century BRAVE NEW WORLD. 'If you are a connoisseur of dystopias, this will be one for you' - Henry Gee, Occam's Typewriter
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