A Word from Tony

Thank you for reading MOONSTRUCK. Reviews are very important for authors and I wonder if I could ask you to say a few words on the review page where you purchased this book. Every review, even if it is only a few words with a star rating, helps the book move up the rankings.

Tony’s Books

Currently, I have written seven science fiction stories. Federation is the first of a trilogy and Moonstruck is the second in a series about astronaut Mark Noble. All my books can be found at https://harmsworth.net including signed paperbacks.

THE DOOR, already a UK Kindle bestseller in two categories: Henry Mackay and his dog regularly walk alongside an ancient convent wall. Today, as he passes the door, he glances at its peeling paint. Moments later he stops dead in his tracks. He returns to the spot, and all he sees is an ivy-covered wall. The door has vanished!

He unwittingly embarks on an exciting trail of events with twists, turns, quantum entanglement and temporal anomalies. It becomes an unbelievable adventure to save humanity which you’ll be unable to put down.

The Door is an intriguing and unique science fiction mystery.

Discover the astonishing secrets being concealed by The Door today!

FEDERATION takes close encounters to a whole new level. A galactic empire of a quarter of a million worlds stumbles across the Earth. With elements of a political thriller, there is an intriguing storyline which addresses the environmental and social problems faced by the world today.

The aliens’ philosophy on life is totally unexpected. With the help of intelligent automatons, they've turned what many on Earth felt was a reviled political system into a utopia for the masses, but are they a force for good or evil, and will the wealthy make the compromises needed for a successful outcome?

A Daragnen university graduate, Yol Rummy Blin Breganin, discovers that Earth failed in its attempt to join the Federation, and, for some unknown reason, members are forever banned from visiting or contacting the planet. Rummy had never heard of a whole world being outlawed. Perhaps it would be sensible to leave well enough alone but no, he decides to investigate…

Some readers have considered this series some sort of left-wing propaganda, but it isn’t. It is a story, a work of imagination and should be read as such. However, if you have trouble telling science fiction from reality, or if your political convictions are so fanatical that you can never see the ‘other point of view’ then you might be better reading my other books.

FEDERATION is the first in the trilogy. The second volume, FEDERATION AND EARTH is also available. HIDDEN FEDERATION is due out in June 2020. The trilogy has been compared with the writing of Asimov and Banks.

Submerge yourself in humankind’s cultural and economic dilemma with FEDERATION.

MINDSLIP: The radiation from Betelgeuse turning supernova causes every creature on Earth to swap minds! Men to women, children to adults, animals to humans, old to young, and vice versa. How would you handle changing sex or species? Mindslip combines frightening science fiction with psychological anguish.

The change in astrophysicist Geoff Arnold is challenging, and his wife and children have vanished. He joins the government’s catastrophe committee with the brief to find a solution to Mindslip before it completely destroys society and the economy.

Millions die! Billions survive danger, harassment and abuse, and manage to adapt to their change of species, race, sex, and age. Geoff discovers that the change his wife has experienced is life-threatening. Can he juggle his new life, help save the world and rescue his wife in time?

This stand-alone work is unique. Science fiction with elements of soft horror, all in the style of the old masters. A real page-turner. I’ve been told that this is reminiscent of the late, great John Wyndham’s masterpieces.

Become part of the bizarre, yet realistic world of MINDSLIP. Its reviews are the best of all of my books.

MOONSCAPE: We’ve known that the moon is dead since Apollo. But what if something lay dormant in the dust, waiting to be found?

In 2028, Mark Noble is conducting a survey of a moon crater. An entity secretly grabs a ride back to Moonbase on Mark’s buggy. Once in the habitat, it begins to infect the crew. They find themselves in a frightening, helter-skelter adventure with only two possible outcomes: losing or saving the Earth.

MOONSCAPE is the first in a series of hard science fiction stories featuring Mark Noble. If you like fast-paced adventure, fraught with the additional dangers found in space, then this tale has been written especially for you.

Explore the page-turning world of MOONSCAPE today! MOONSTRUCK, the second in the Mark Noble series is also now available. The third book TRAPPIST-1 will be available during 2020.

THE VISITOR, already a UK Kindle bestseller in three categories and now an exciting audiobook: Specialist astronaut Evelyn Slater encounters a small, badly damaged, ancient, alien artefact on the first ever space-junk elimination mission. Where was it from? Who sent it?

International governments impose a security clampdown. Evelyn leads a team of hand-picked scientists who make amazing discoveries within the alien device. Secrecy becomes impossible to maintain. When the news is finally released, she becomes embroiled in international politics, worldwide xenophobic hatred, and violence.

This is book one of my loosely connected First Contact series of novels. If you like realistic near-future stories which compel you to imagine yourself as the protagonist, The Visitor is the book for you.

THE VISITOR – hard science fiction with a wicked twist. Buy it now and be transported into orbit.

Non-Fiction by Tony Harmsworth

LOCH NESS, NESSIE & ME: Almost everyone, at some point in their lives, has wondered if there was any truth in the stories of monsters in Loch Ness? Loch Ness, Nessie & Me answers all the questions you have ever wanted to ask about the loch and its legendary beast.

In these 400 pages with more than 200 pictures, including the famous ones, and illustrations, you will find a geography of Loch Ness, a travel guide to the area, a biography of its mythical inhabitant; and an autobiography of the man who set up the Loch Ness Centre, worked with many of the research groups, and helped coordinate Operation Deepscan. Me!

Explore the environmental and physical attributes of Loch Ness which make certain monster candidates impossible. Find detailed explanations of how pictures were faked and sonar charts, badly interpreted. Learn how Nessie has affected the people and businesses which exist in her wake, and suspend belief over the activities of the monstrous monks of Fort Augustus Abbey.

My involvement at the loch has lasted over forty years, including creating increasingly sceptical exhibitions, dioramas and multi-media shows. This is the first comprehensive book to be penned by someone who lives overlooking the loch. It is essential for anyone interested in Loch Ness and the process of analysing cryptozoological evidence.

Now’s the time to discover the truth about this mystery, once and for all. Get your copy today!

SCOTLAND’S BLOODY HISTORY: Ever been confused about Scotland’s history – all the relationships between kings and queens, both Scottish and English? Why all the battles, massacres and disputes? Scotland’s Bloody History simplifies it all.

Discover the history of Scotland from prehistoric man to the current Scottish Nationalist government. Follow the timeline from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Find out about the Picts, the Scots, the Vikings and the English. Learn about the election of Scotland’s early kings and how Shakespeare maligned one of our finest monarchs.

In simple, chronological order, this book will show you how the animosity between England and Scotland grew into outright warfare including tales of Braveheart and wars of independence.

I have taken the bloodiest events of the last three thousand years and used them to clarify the sequence of events. Don’t buy this book to learn the boring stuff, this book is packed with action from page one to the final three words which might haunt you over the next decade.

Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, the Stewarts and Jacobites. It is all there. Explore Scotland’s Bloody History now!