Jon Ingold

Interesting attempt at classical fantasy, explaining Atlantis as a city built on silver mines with a deadly secret.

A old man reminisces to a monk about his grandmother, who brought back news from the now silent colony on Alpha Centauri, as a new space programme maybe underway.

A team of young wizz kids develop a new drug that seems to sharpen and expand memory, and are confident enough to test it on themselves. It makes them rich but has other effects, which they cannot see but which are obvious to the reader.

A old man recounts a tangled tale of love and war from his early life, in praise of seeking knowledge from books. There are hints about the past of the archipelago environment described. Stylish, but ultimately empty