Derek E. Pearson – författare

The young couple's holiday to die for, Milla Carter's and Franklyn's, looks in danger of becoming just that. The future depicted is dysfunctional, cold and frighteningly voyeuristic. Corporate power presides, with no respect for privacy. Saturated with hard core pornography this world has lost the power to even be offended.

SURREY LIFE : "Imaginative and sexually explicit. Yet the edgy “in your face” writing and tightly structured plot are damn near impossible to put down."An older couple, ex-glamour model Ruth and her rich husband Pearce, had engaged Milla and Franklyn to swap bodies, in a process called ‘Transition’. The lure of such a 'Body Holiday', reacquainting intimately in younger bodies, was simply irresistible to them.Unfortunately the dream vacation descends into a brutal game of survival. The couples are pitched against a malevolent force that's always one step ahead. Can they escape the nightmare, or are they destined to spend the rest of their lives on the run trapped in each other’s bodies?SURREY LIFE : Chilling amounts of gore and explosions of Armageddon proportions give the story the adrenalin-coated rush of a Grand Theft Auto game. Yet there’s also a quasi gallows humour running through the narrative. It’s Milla who really stands out. She’s a woman of action, the shining light in the darkness, which is why her anger is palpable when a shocking plot twist exposes a terrible betrayal. Yet Milla’s integrity is a contradiction. By rights, it shouldn’t exist in a world that disparages decency, yet somehow it stays intact.

Revenge needs no salt to taste this good!

The sexy all-action heroine Milla Carter's breathtaking journey extends through outer-world "constructs", now visiting an African landscape smouldering with sexual heat and the odour of violence.

In this sequel to Body Holiday, Milla's war against the sinister Body Holiday Foundation and its twisted founder is more than just personal. She's out to destroy them both and, quite frankly, who can blame her? This outfit makes big bucks from normalising some of the most depraved forms of human behaviour. Nothing is off-limits where these creeps are concerned and they deserve every bit of what's coming.SURREY LIFE: "Pearson possesses an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre. His writing is vivid, urban and unflinching in its descriptions, taking the reader through Saturn's rings, outer-world "constructs" and altered perceptions.This is hard hitting storytelling with full-on language and a brutally splendid plot twist, which, if you make it to the end, will leave you crossing your legs! "

Lethal is rarely this lovely

Sensuous telepath Milla Carter knows that a business which generates dollars from selling extreme pornography and murder as ‘quality entertainment’, won’t roll over easily. She’ll have to use her lightening quickness and enhanced senses like never before if she’s to outwit and annihilate both the Body Holiday Foundation and its hired assassin. For the sleekly-beautiful Su-Nami, part human/part machine, killing is a game and the spoils an edible feast. 

SURREY LIFE: "Pearson’s galactic-sized imagination delivers a compelling image of a chic, high-tech society infused with a toxic strain that feeds on extreme violence. It’s a disturbingly twisted vision of the future and Pearson’s tough, unflinching narrative almost dares the reader to look away from the monstrousness. Don’t, because Milla Carter, his feisty, sexy heroine, is the weapon of retribution.A Time To Prey is a gripping read that boldly and intelligently explores the vision of an ugly, amoral future in which goodness must fight for survival. In this dystopian nightmare, privacy is non-existent, life is cheap, killers have fan clubs, while the only individuals who count for something are those with money. Milla’s crusade has a biblical quality in which she is elevated as a force of hope against the corporate anti-Christ of the Body Holiday Foundation. Good will survive, but at what cost? For anyone offended by swearing, violence and explicit sex then A Time To Prey won’t be an easy read. Yet it’s worth remembering that nothing about the content is gratuitous. Pearson is simply encouraging us to think about the type of future we could end up getting. The blunt ‘in your face’ tone of the narrative may be crude, but it works."

Soul's Asylum is the first volume in the trilogy. The second volume, Soul's Asylum - Star Weaver, is a 2016 Indies Finalist in Science Fiction.

THE SUN newspaper, Soul’s Asylum: “ Is a weird, vivid and creepy book, not for the faint hearted. But it’s originality and top writing make for a great read ****.” 

SURREY LIFE magazine: "...Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre. His writing is vivid, urban and unflinching in its descriptions, taking the reader on a breathtaking journey through Saturn's rings, outer world 'constructs', altered perceptions and a glorious African landscape smouldering with sexual heat and the odour of violence. This is hard-hitting story telling with full-on language and a brutally splendid plot twist, which, if you make it to the end, will leave you crossing your legs!"

‘The dry thing behind her eyes made her stand up; it stooped, collected the child into its mother’s arms and stepped out into space.’ We pick up the story of Milla Carter after the destruction of the Body Holiday Foundation. She has ripped down the poisoned tree but the parasite still lives, and the infection is worse than anyone could possibly imagine. It is no longer just Carter fighting for survival and the forces arrayed against her are more powerful than ever before. From a ledge 173 floors above the Moscow streets to New York, the asteroid belt and beyond, Soul’s Asylum establishes Derek E Pearson as one of the most prolific imaginations in the science fiction arena. ‘Look at it, my first sight of alien life and it’s infesting a chunk of murdered human meat.’ ‘Where Pearson will take you is impossible to predict, strap in and enjoy the ride. The Body Holiday trilogy has concluded, Soul’s Asylum begins a new epic tale in the same universe. We are no longer asking who dunnit but what – and why?’

Volume two in the Soul's Asylum trilogy, Star Weaver is a 2016 Foreword Indies Finalist in Science Fiction.

THE SUN newspaper, Soul’s Asylum: “ Is a weird, vivid and creepy book, not for the faint hearted. But it’s originality and top writing make for a great read ****.” 

SURREY LIFE magazine: "Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre." 

Telepath and psychopath-buster Milla Carter continues to fight a far greater threat from outer space. 

Hovering over the inky shadows of London’s crevassed streets a patrol drone discovers the body of a woman, and the signature MO – she’s been garrotted with a cheese wire and scalped – is that of a notorious serial killer. But this time the sensuous Milla Carter is incapable of luring the target, who turns out to be telepath opaque. In need of reinforcements, she joins the telepath sisterhood in their fight against members of the Earth’s Senate – until, they learn that a deadly alien Swarm is closing in on the outer fringes of space.

Following the destruction of the Body Holiday Foundation, the extraordinary life story of telepath Milla Carter concludes in this third volume of Derek E Pearson's Soul's Asylum trilogy. The second volume, Star Weaver, is a 2016 Indies Finalist in Science Fiction.

THE SUN newspaper, Soul’s Asylum: “ Is a weird, vivid and creepy book, not for the faint hearted. But it’s originality and top writing make for a great read ****.” 

SURREY LIFE magazine: "Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre." 

Iapetus in Saturn’s orbit: Antisoc Outer has been destroyed and now the intelligent gas creature, the Swarm, is tightening its grip on the solar system.

Iapetus Sector Manager ‘The Padre’ and his lover, Laura Bradley, are working with two super intelligent AIs in a desperate bid to find a way to stop the Swarm’s relentless progress. If they fail their only hope is for everyone in Saturn’s proximity to flee in a motley fleet of refugee spaceships.

Milla Carter and her friends know there is no escape from the cloud beast. Mankind’s only hope is to destroy it before it snuffs OUT every soul on Earth. But there seems TO BE no defence against its immense power.

A 2016 Indies Book Award Finalist. The Preacher Spindrift Series - A fallen angel, a beautiful spirit woman and a brave adept man must save mankind from the Sha-aneer.

Texas 1883: A man found face down in a fire ants' mound has been raped and brutally murdered. His killing sparks a nightmare for Sheriff Caleb Sawyer and the townspeople of Mule's Ass - named after the last thing the founder looked at before setting up camp. Aided by the enigmatic Preacher Spindrift, Sawyer must solve the murder to defeat the hideous Sha-aneer - an ancient creature that devours the flesh and souls of mankind - or the light of human civilisation will be extinguished forever.

Orbiting beyond Mars, the huge and alien General Organism Development System (GODS) has steered the evolution of life on Earth for many millions of years... but something else got there first and now wants the planet back.

The Sun newspaper, Pearson's Soul's Asylum: "It's originality and top writing make for a great read ****."

Surrey Life magazine: "Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre."

'When nearly two hundred young people mysteriously disappear from a spa resort near Manitoba's Duck Mountain the event sets in motion a story that will span continents, travel light years and enter strange new dimensions; while diminutive medium Medina Bishop follows perplexing clues that lead her to a startling and dangerous revelation.Medina becomes the hub around whom the story unfolds. Her impossible task is to save hundreds of dead souls from an eternity of tortured madness, but she is not alone. At her shoulder stands an earth elemental, Fargo, who was sent to protect her from the nightmare forces arrayed against her and with whom she finds a bizarre and touching kind of love.Her liberty − and even her life – are at stake when she finds herself embroiled in a story almost half a billion years in the making.’

Derek E Pearson

2016 FINALIST twice over at the Foreword Indies BOOK AWARDS, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 24 June 2017:

• SCIENCE FICTION with Soul's Asylum - Star Weaver• FANTASY with GODS' Enemy

The Sun: "Soul's Asylum is a weird, vivid and creepy book, not for the faint hearted. But its originality and top writing make for a great read.”

In his Body Holiday adult sci-fi trilogy Pearson introduced readers to Milla Carter, a beautiful telepath and killer, whose adventures have continued in the Soul's Asylum trilogy. The last volume, The Swarm, was published 15 April 2017.

With GODS' Enemy Pearson introduced readers to the enigmatic Preacher Spindrift, in a series that will continue in 2017 with GODS' Fool and in 2018 with Delivery From Evil.

Pearson lives on the London/Surrey borders where he spends most of his time at his keyboard imagineering new worlds or twisting existing worlds through the dark prism he uses instead of a brain.He says, "When someone dies it has to matter. You have to believe a life has been lost. An author learns to love the people he lives with in his mind. They become real."

The ancient and peaceful city of Lijiang and the iconic Tiger Leaping Gorge, China, 1918. These will become the stage, at a time when the whole world is riven by what seems to be endless war, for a final titanic struggle that could mean the preservation or the end of all humanity. 

The enigmatic Preacher Spindrift''s GODS having deserted him, he is now the last of his kind remaining on Earth.

When six-year-old Jerome Talbot is abducted by the mysterious ''Lady'' his disappearance sparks a series of events that will plunge him and his mother into a nightmare of possession and psychic terror from which there seems no escape. 

During two sweltering summer weeks in an idyllic Sussex cathedral town, police officer Rose Platt and child psychiatrist Sharif Mohammed find themselves fighting for the boy''s sanity and their lives during an overwhelming assault by ancient magic seeking bloody revenge.

A promise has been broken and powerful dark spirits have risen to protect a secret path that crosses the time worn landscape. The town must pay the price.

November 1917. The first great allied tank battle takes place at Cambrai in the Pas de Calais. At first it proves a rousing success but after a hard fought two weeks German forces repulse the British on every front.Reserves called up in support of the retreat include five hundred American engineers, including captain Colin Cahoon, a deeply religious Texan. Cahoon is injured during an enemy shell bombardment and wakes up in a hospital bed to find he is being treated by the enigmatic Dr Spindrift.Cahoon finds himself embroiled in a titanic struggle that will stretch the Texan’s religious beliefs, his sanity and his courage to breaking point. During the final year of The War To End All Wars, the future of all mankind will be decided.

When Scotland Yard involved the Professor and his young ward Martin Kingswraith in the strange case of the ''Depleted Men'', neither of those skilled white wizards, or Lux Texentes, could foresee the terrible dangers they would face. In the soot-coated cobbled streets of late Victorian London, Kingswraith must overcome his greatest challenge or perish in the attempt.

Kingswraith would receive help from the strangest quarters, not least Penelope Epimeliad and the mysterious children who haunted the stone forests of London town, children who had once been tree sprites in Britain''s magnificent primordial woodlands when mammoths still trumpeted in the frozen wilds. 

The children now lived in a vast Roman reservoir under the Tower of London, from which they would emerge as a force of good, dedicated to fighting evil, bringing aid and comfort to the innocent, and food to the downtrodden masses. It was they who created the Depleted Men, actually wicked murderers, using ancient enchantments to suck the minerals from the killers'' bodies, leaving behind a shell of soft, jelly-like protein.

Penelope recognises Kingswraith''s unique qualities as a scion of the house of Pendragon and she brings her own immense powers to bear to prepare him for his inevitable battle against sinister Haven Slighe, one of the ten Viventem Nominis Umbra, or malevolent Lords of Living Shadow.

Slighe is a forceful mage. He and his nine fellows are a pitiless force of darkness driven towards reducing civilisation to its lowest possible ebb so they feed from humanity''s despair. They will encourage any wickedness, drunkenness and lechery, until the whole population is lost without God or hope of redemption. 

The Lux Texentes has been standing in their way, but the Umbra has been cutting them down at every opportunity. To take Kingswraith, Haven Slighe captures the Professor. To save him Kingswraith must face Slighe alone, and afraid.

Is it murder, or a welcome release? After defeating the ''Anubis Killer'' NYPD homicide detective Prentiss finds herself on the trail of the mysterious ''Dark Lady'', a spectral woman who targets the aged and infirm. Her investigations lead her to the For-Life Foundation.

What happens next will confound her understanding of reality and confront her with horrors beyond her wildest imagination. Death, despair, and the stench of evil await her in the shadows.