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| by Andrew Hibbert |
Cover Notes
Strange Science is a highly imaginative and chilling story of the occult, in which we discover that arcane arts from an earlier age are secretly being used in the present day, and practitioners of ancient evils are working to shape civilisation to their own wicked ends. Weird technology is harnessed to voodoo-like ritual to communicate beyond the grave, and we have flashbacks to a pre-biblical time in Babylon when there are power battles between the gods and lustful priestesses and scribes try to influence the spirit world, challenging the power and roots of theology.
Neil Travis is a Detective Sergeant in London, struggling on the trail of a serial killer. Help arrives in the form of Bill Furie, a retired FBI agent, who has a range of unusual skills, plus a device for getting voice messages from the dead. The investigations take them into dark secrets of prehistory and into ultra modern biotechnology, as evil forces attempt to mutate the human race and alter the destiny of the world. Travis and Furie stumble through a maze of incomprehension with just enough understanding to prevent disaster and save humanity.
The plot is fast moving and eclectic, taking the reader through an array of ideas and thinking that is fascinatingly diverse. The story twists and turns between action and philosophy, observation and insight, and as the two detectives unravel the mystery, the reader has to keep up with a diverse range of stimuli and perception that is challenging and compulsive.
If you are ready to suspend disbelief for the sake of a good yarn, this is for you, particularly if you like some metaphysics thrown in. This is a book for those lovers of horror and the occult who love to read on enraptured as the Mummy’s tomb creaks open once again, and the ancient hieroglyphics are deciphered and found to be horribly true. You can dabble in the fundamentals of religion and read of fearful demons taking over the world.
Andrew Hibbert was born in 1960, and grew up in Heath Hayes, Staffordshire. He currently teaches English to foreign students. He is single, and lives in Newport, Shropshire. Strange Science is his first novel, and a second work is in progress.
Publication History
First published by Stamford House Publishing in 2005
