Len Stone: 6 books

Sometimes when someone's stealing your design's, you've just got to steal them back. What Paul Brennan hadn't reckoned on was having to fly halfway around the world into a war zone to do it. A dieselpunk story from Len Stone, author of the Bren Taylor series.

With the 3am call, Bren Taylor knew it was going to be an urgent job, even if it was straightforward. But once he was in orbit, with a new partner, it was anything but straightforward.

Half-awake, Bren's on a jet to Norway to rescue a kidnapped royal. The bad guys' hideout is deep in an underground theme park, but the princess might not be all she seems.

Bren's on a Pacific atoll as Tammy's rehab support person when he gets a call from DeMason. A rocket launch platform's capsized and they're the closest team. Bren's hardly about to pull Tammy out halfway through her program, but there are people trapped underwater. A Bren Taylor sci-fi adventure.

Carly Bede's bent on solving the mystery of the pipe clouds. When a massive storm threatens, it looks like the Eastern seaboard will end up like Japan and Peru. Those storms wiped out whole cities. Carly's got to choose between her research and a risky do-or-die mission to kill the clouds. A sci-fi tale from the author of "Wing" and The Bren Taylor Adventures.

It started with a cockroach. At 4am Bren Taylor finds himself on another urgent job - pulling one of his neighbors out of a lift shaft. That should have been the end of it. Things have only just got started. Lucky he's brought Shinako along with him.