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Pioneers

Author Allen Stroud

Out in the unknown, aboard an alien ship. Natalie Holder’s identity is disintegrating in the mind of Alison Wade. Wade never chose to remain on the alien ship and struggles to fit in with the rest of the travellers heading out of the solar system. When the ship encounters a new threat, Wade must find a way to get Holder out of her head so she can save them all. Number Eight in The Fractal Series Episodes.

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Product details
eBook, 72 pages, 24000 words
ISBN: 9781805520054
Series: The Fractal Series Episodes

Available from 16 Dec 2025

£2.49

Allen Stroud

Allen Stroud is a lecturer and researcher at Coventry University. Stroud completed a Ph. D. at the University of Winchester entitled 'An Investigation and Application of Writing Structures and World Development Techniques in Science Fiction and Fantasy'. He has worked in computer games, roleplaying games, novels, short stories and scripts. He currently runs the Creative Futures research project with the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL).

Stroud was a founding host of Lave Radio, an Elite: Dangerous fan podcast that started in February 2013 and ran the annual convention Lavecon. His novel set in the Elite: Dangerous game world, called Elite: Lave Revolution was successfully funded on Kickstarter and published in late 2014, with a second edition published in 2015. Stroud then supported Spidermind Games in developing the Elite Dangerous Roleplaying Game. Stroud worked on Chaos Reborn with Snapshot Games and has worked on Phoenix Point, released in 2019.

Stroud was the 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023 chair of Fantasycon, the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society, which hosts the British Fantasy Awards. He was also Chair of the British Science Fiction Association from 2019 to 2025. Stroud continues to write academic papers, reviews, articles and fiction in science fiction, fantasy and horror. He lives in a messy house with three cats and his partner, Karen.