Fear of Light (novel)
Fear of Light: An Adventure in Time and Space was Jim Mortimore's 2020 "Director's Cut" completion of his unreleased Lethbridge-Stewart short story Fear of Light, which was written for but rejected by Candy Jar Books in 2015. While the names of non-original characters were changed from the first edition for story and copyright reasons, many of Mortimore's original characters retained their identities.
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"Human beings are more than the sum of their parts, Doctor. It's why we prevail. This isn't trust. It's faith. Don't let my faith in you be misplaced."
The invasion is over — or is it?
It's been days since the Great Intelligence was driven from the underground tunnels beneath London. Tens of thousands of Londoners have lost their lives, hundreds of thousands more have been displaced. London is a spectre of its former self, populated only by ghosts and the memories of the dead. Reeling in the aftermath of the horrific incursion a joint military and scientific taskforce led by Colonel Alister Godwin Lethebridge-Stuart and Doctor Ann Travis is desperately trying to understand the purpose of the Great Intelligence while under tremendous pressure from government to declare London safe enough for its population to return home.
But many questions remain unanswered. Where are the Yeti, robot servants of the Great Intelligence? What is the secret of the glass pyramid being reassembled in the taskforce laboratory? How can London be declared safe when anyone could still be infected by the web — a covert agent of the enemy?
In a desperate search for answers, the Colonel's mind is connected to the web. But the experiment goes wrong and he is trapped in a nightmare world of the memories of the dead. Meanwhile Private Ifans has discovered a strange crystal which has the power to reactivate the pyramid, the web and the Yeti, threatening the return of the Great Intelligence in a second wave invasion which could create a global disaster…
Featuring over twenty thousand words of new material and a bucket of extras, and set in the Collapsing Universe Cycle prior to Blood Heat, this novella is a thoroughgoing, dyed-in-the-wool, yank-the-chocks, full-steam-ahead n' dam the ponies Director's Cut of the original Lethbridge-Stewart launch story commissioned and then cancelled by Candy Jar in January 2015. There's more murder, mayhem and HAVOC in this little beauty than a carpet bag full of Agatha Christies, annotated in poison ink, wrapped in hand grenades and tossed by special forces commandos from a Blackhawk assault helicopter into the middle of a warzone. Trust me on this — I still have the bruises.
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