Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days
"Melbourne’s zippy, often tongue-in-cheek debut reads like postmodern Douglas Adams: a mixture of self-aware humor, existential crisis, and cultural satire...a fun, frenetic story." —Publishers Weekly
Eighteen thousand years in the future, in a time of sorcery and starships, of cosmic horrors and unfathomable absurdities, the fate of everything that ever was, is, or will be rests in the hands of accountant and part-time adventurer Percival Gynt.
Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days is a sci-fi/fantasy adventure novel full of swashbuckling, math, dark secrets, space-faeries, obtrusive product placement, Nazis, beating up those Nazis, unlimited baked beans, zombie cyborg assassins, fate with a capital "F," love, betrayal, wizards, jokes, paradoxes, a sentient doomsday weapon, eleven-dimensional space, clones, monsters, space-nuns, and at least one rat-chef.
(Only one rat-chef.)
If you like Doctor Who or Hitchhiker's Guide, Saga, Ready Player One, Thor: Ragnarok, or The Princess Bride (or absolutely none of those thing!) you'll love Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days.
And be sure to check out Percival Gynt and the Other Stories, a series of spoiler-free (and also free-free) prequel stories that dig further into the backstory of everybody's favorite adventuring accountant, exclusive to this website. Read 'em before picking up the novel or enjoy them after you've finished. No wrong way to read. New stories go up every 6-8 weeks!