ISBN: 9781906791322    Publisher: Arena Books Year of publishing: 2009     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 316        

What technology is mankind? From the end of the Second World War to the 21st Century, a British research establishment secretly achieves the invention of a being that is not human. The technology comes so close, that an experiment cannot detect the difference - and the college society of Queen Mary in the East End of London continues unaware of an inhuman presence. Sean Heyward, an MI6 agent, uncovers the secret experiment and finds that the original mandate was to create a sinister defensive weapon. His fears grow when he discovers that the secret formula has fallen into the hands of an opposing foreign Power. The experiment unfolds, the enormity of what has been unlocked becomes clear: unpredicted and with devastating results, a student, his true nature unknown even to himself, falls in love with a beautiful female. Dr. Liz Kating, a leading engineer, is horrified by what she and her colleagues have unknowingly unleashed, and she fears for the safety of the girl. A power struggle erupts within the company and an attack is made on the college to reclaim the technology. Discovering his true origin, he fights back to protect the one he has come to love.
Britain and America learn of the battle, and chase and fight across the English countryside to capture the fleeing machine; but he realises that there is more at stake than his own survival. "The Inorganic" transcends the science-fictional to explore the human condition on a philosophical and even theological level. It will even question the nature of life and love.
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Neale Hambidge is currently an engineer working for an Avionics company in Rochester, Kent, having joined in 1984 on a Youth Training Scheme. He went on to eventually gain a degree in electronics and computing at Queen Mary College, London, and as a career, has spent many years working on flight-control computers. He grew up in a Salvation Army family, attending the Gillingham Corps, and since January 2007 has been happily married to Ilse. They had met in Jerusalem, during Easter, 2005.
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