Free Novels
This page shows quick links to PDF versions of my novels. Each novel also has a detail page where you can find alternative formats. Downloads exceeded a quarter of a million, mainly between 2000 and 2010.
Pan vs Progress
A satire. The god Pan comes to Earth and because of his goats' legs is mistaken for a genetically modified organism. He becomes famous, appears on a couple of TV shows, and tries to defeat his rival Joe Progress, a thoroughly modern deity. Length 48,000 words, a long novella. This free version was fully revised in 2020. (An earlier version was published as a paperback in 2008, now out of print.)
Field of Reeds
Raymond Kite invents an electronic method of measuring the human soul. Not everybody thinks this is a wonderful idea. Includes religious judgement scenes, with an ending based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Early in the 2000s this book was favourably reviewed and massively downloaded. I have to be honest and say it's a bit patchy and I'm slightly suprised that it did so well. On the other hand, this version is a publisher's proof. It was about to be published as a paperback when the deal fell through.