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Aussie Author of Science Fiction Books and Movie Scripts for Teens, Older Children and YA. Dabbler in Digital Design.
The Visitors
Two time travelling aliens, Bjorn and Zorn, witness the destruction of the Earth in 2032.
They travel in time to collect a little band of misfits, to help them save humanity from its Religious Wars.
The laid back, Ptoni The Pteranodon, the Ladylike, Florence The Jersey Cow, the excitable, Penelope The Adelie Penguin, and the Chicken Nugget obsessed Dax the Maine Coon Cat, set off an adventure that sees them cross the galaxy and back again.
Their adventure is filled with drama, fun and chaos.
The local drive thru will never be the same again, and neither will Florence’s derriere.
Alien abduction can be fun!
"Interesting, intriguing, captivating and thought provoking." Greg
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Screenplay: Children of The Night
Levi 11, and Toby 6, have lost their father to a heart attack.
Two years later their alcoholic mother has lost the plot.
She is emotionally and physically abusive.
Toby asks to move from Manchester England to Australia and inexplicably she agrees.
Two days after their arrival, she is killed and the boys find themselves in the hands of a predatory priest.
When Levi accidently kills the priest, they run.
Straight into clutches of a very twisted lowlife running a child prostitution racket. An abuse survivor himself, Iceman has allowed it to destroy his humanity.
As they fight to keep their heads above water a lifeline appears in the form of a compassionate Senior Detective.
With the help of David, a fellow abuse survivor now a social worker, they fight for their lives, sanity and freedom.
There is very little beauty in the drug affected world they find themselves in. Levi endures blow after blow after blow trying to protect his little brother.
Iceman blocks them at every turn, even killing to keep the upper hand. The crescendo builds in this exhausting fight and ultimately costs Levi his own life. With a Judges hand in his pocket, Iceman wins the battle.
Toby finds himself alone in a foreign country, and part of a world he struggles to understand.
The only thing left to hang onto and trust is David.
As David’s own life burns around him, he finds himself the new father of a very frightened, 8 year old boy, that his own past makes him determined to save.
18.01.21 Feedback from Wiki Screen Play Contest Final Comments:
This is compelling drama with a story worth telling and ethical questions worth exploring. The empathy with which it is written is a great asset, as the abuse endured is not merely relegated to a character’s tragic background, but becomes the drama of these young peoples’ existences. Levi is a uniquely sensitive anti-hero, but the amount of carnage he causes in the first few pages may sabotage future character development if he is not also seen at his most quietly vulnerable. The script is saturated with opportunities for internal and external conflict, and isn’t afraid to show abuse in its many forms immediately. This makes the pacing quick and the reading easy to invest in. However, the writer explicitly states that this is a story about sexual abuse survivors, already rich subject matter. If the writer continues to focus solely on this and the specific stories of these characters, this will stand out as a novel and harrowing drama that will appeal to many.
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The Visitors is an entertaining and insightful look at the world gone wrong from the point of view of two alien time travellers.
The book opens in the year 2032, with Bjorn and Zorn in orbit around earth witnessing the destruction of the planet.
Upset by what they see, they decide to travel back in time to collect a little band of misfits to help them save humanity from itself.
They encounter the laid-back Ptoni the Pteranodon, the lady-like Florence the Jersey Cow, the excitable Penelope the Adelie Penguin and the chicken-nugget-obsessed Dax the Maine Coon Cat and set off on an adventure that sees them cross the galaxy and back again.
Their adventure is filled with drama, fun and chaos, proving that alien abduction can be fun.
Behind the humour and rip-roaring narrative is a more serious message.
"The Visitors is speaking out against racism and homophobia and religious entitlement," Andrew said.
"I look around the world today and see a lot of worrying developments and I think the only way to effectively change things moving forward is to teach children to be more open and accepting.
"The book opens in 2032, with Bjorn and Zorn watching the earth being destroyed by religious wars so they decide to travel back in time, hook up with some locals, investigate the causes of the problems and come up with solutions to fix it.
"It's a lot of fun, there's a lot of lot humour and the story is character-driven, but at its heart are some serious messages that hopefully get through."
Andrew spent ten years as a serving member of the Royal Australian Air Force and is a grandfather to 10 children: nine girls and one boy.
He has a keen interest in marine life and the environment and is a qualified veterinary nurse and a champion for animal rights.
He encourages people to adopt from shelters and rescue groups. Dax, the Maine Coon Cat in his novel, was was based on an actual rescue adoption.
In writing The Visitors, Andrew was heavily influenced by seeing a young child in the Ku Klux Klan.
"He has been taught that, it doesn't come naturally and I want to teach kids that there is a better way to live, and I'm trying to do that through my writing," Andrew said.
The original story was written back in 2014-15 and after a familiar literary journey of knockbacks, UK-based publisher Austin Macauley agreed to publish it
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