Mark Lingane

The mythology of Narcissus told as a techno-gothic tragedy. Darkness is a reflection, and Julian is a lonely man until he meets the love of his life. Unfortunately, she is psychotic and drives him into his own madness. His only reprieve is in the arms of a sexbot. But who will win the emotiona...

A boy on the run. A secret held. A weapon unleashed. Out on the scorched plains of the West Australian deserts lives a boy in a hunk of rusted metal. His life is simple: search for water aquifers and sell their location to the water-starved megaRig cities crawling over the countryside. But fat...

I wake up in a sleek, futuristic hospital. My last memory is from the nightclub, a birthday celebration. Now here … A note sits beside the bed. It says, ‘Welcome to the future.’ It’s in my handwriting. In a world where currency resides in the monetisation of youthful beauty, Kry has been grant...

A cracked-mirror tale of sex-fuelled and blood-soaked revenge. Spark, an elite Space Academy pilot, barely survived a deadly battle. After years in a coma, he emerges to find a crippled world and his memory in tatters. Humanity faces threats from many sides, often self-inflicted. And a new evil...

The message turned up out of nowhere. Military-grade encryption. It took Ronan four minutes to decode it. A party invite. A chance meeting. A cry for help. Ronan is dragged into the depths of cyber-hell, but can he save his love?

A short story-come-novella with a devastating sense of menace. A survivor struggles to remember how she came to be the last known surviving human while in constant peril from predatory aliens. This story covers environmental collapse, AI technology, and civilisational collapse without ever lettin...