SAGRADA, The Chronicles of the Mediocrats - Book ONE
NEW cover - same great story
SOMEWHERE IN SPACE
A man wakes after three hundred years of stasis, disorientated and confused. Something's not right. He shouldn't be awake yet. A stasis pod shatters. That shouldn't happen. The occupant is dead. Really? Is this how the new perfect world is to begin? With a murder? A mystery to solve before they've even landed on the planet. All he ever wanted was a family and a simple life.
BACK ON EARTH
Flash back to Earth 1969. A small, orphaned boy out of place at an English boarding school. A hitchhiker. A student. A banker, an entrepreneur and an adventurer. Zed makes friends, he faces his traumas, he falls in love. All the ordinary things of life on Earth, except that Zed's destiny is off world.
At eighteen a chance encounter with little blue humanoids in Barcelona's old town sets him on a life path to a partially terraformed planet several hundred light years away.
Frustrated with Earth's failed leadership and relentless ambition, Zed develops a political philosophy where it's OK to be OK. This provides the social rationale for leading a small band of settlers on a three-hundred-year journey locked in stasis.
But seriously? You trust a bunch of random friendly aliens telling you: don't worry it will be ready by the time you get there?
CARS, MUSIC and THE VERDITIAN FEDERATION
Sagrada takes you to places you know like Barcelona's Las Ramblas and London's Soho. And to places you don't know like planet Sagrada or the strange world of Verditia. There is familiarity in 1970s rock music and classic cars, and novelty in stasis technology and OGROs. It gives a first glimpse through Zed's eyes of the dying throes of the empire of the Verditian Federation over the lifetime of Tala, the last and arguably greatest, of Vertilia's generals, but that's another story ...
ESPERANZA, The Chronicles of the Mediocrats - Book TWO
Esperanza, Damian Templeton, The Fulcrum and LLEAD. This is the story of their power struggles to develop planet sagrada
At the end of Sagrada (book one) the mission to settle a new planet succeeded, but now what?
Oh! My goodness! It couldn't go more wrong!
Colonisation of the planet is about as derailed as you can imagine.
There's a dreadful shortage of just about every resource and a tyrannical despot has stepped into the vacuum at the top of the leaderless mediocracy. Who is this new dictator? Where are Zed and Sonya when you need them? How can people live and love under such fear and oppression? And then the killing starts.
Esperanza somehow escapes, but what can one woman do alone?
Don't miss this thrilling revenge story as Esperanza returns from obscurity to turn a whole nation upside down and restore the hope that was lost.
SONJA, The Chronicles of the Mediocrats - Book THREe
Coming soon!
A century has past since arrival on Sagrada...
THE SONGS OF SAGRADA AND ESPERANZA
THE PLACES OF SAGRADA and ESPERANZA
THE SONGS OF SAGRADA AND ESPERANZA
Sagrada is full of music. There are songs explicitly mentioned by the characters. There are others obscurely hidden away in the text.
Thirty one songs are captured in a Spotify playlist. See if you can find them in the story.
And let us know if you find any more that we missed on the playlist!
Apparently Esperanza continues this tradition with another 29 songs!
THe Cars OF SAGRADA
THE PLACES OF SAGRADA and ESPERANZA
THE SONGS OF SAGRADA AND ESPERANZA
THE JAGUARS
1959 Mark IX White
1966 E Type Dark Blue
1967 E Type Light Blue
1990s XJS Light Blue
2014 F-Type Italian Racing Red
OTHER CARS
Corvette Stingray
Tesla S P100D
Range Rover
Renault 4
and more ...
THE PLACES OF SAGRADA and ESPERANZA
THE PLACES OF SAGRADA and ESPERANZA
THE PLACES OF SAGRADA and ESPERANZA
ENGLAND
Devizes
Stourbridge
Soho, Mayfair, Marylebone,
Salisbury Plain
EUROPE
Barcelona,
Rouen,
Loire Valley,
Austrian Alps
ASIA
Hong Kong
Japan
ENGLISH ENGLISH OF SAGRADA
THE PLACES OF SAGRADA and ESPERANZA
THE PLACES OF SAGRADA and ESPERANZA
A Levels
Black Country
Bloke
Brilliant
Coffee
Prep School
Public School
San
and more ...
Also the cars are mostly British and so is the music!