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Welcome to the home page for R. Bert Kenn, a Science Fiction Author from Edmonton, AB, Canada.

You can download my books from my 2 series in PDF or E-book format or use my online store to order soft covers.

When ordering soft-covers, you can pay securely by credit card or e-transfer and I'll mail you your copies.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at bert@rbertkenn.com.

Thanks for visiting my web site and I hope you enjoy reading my books even half as much as I enjoyed writing them.

R. Bert Kenn

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Conformance. Significantly desirous.

Implying that failure to follow directives will result in dissolution.

The machine mind reported encounters with non-mechanical minds.

Machine logic predicted ultimate dominance.

Machines in various configurations cruise across the galactic spur. Using the ship only as a means of containment for its digital synapses, they invade unprepared planetary defenses and leave destroyed worlds and shattered civilizations in their wake. Deep in the circuitry are data links to an inhabited world in an outer Dowpe-Currian spur of the galaxy.

An obstacle in its way was Tyn Dalum, an exotic female from the Galactic Patrol Service Diplomatic Corps, the sole survivor of a brief encounter with a machine.

Toyshop electrical design engineer Jeff Allison stumbles across Tyn’s downed shuttle at an Ottawa train station. Together, Tyn and Jeff collaborate with their Terran and Galactic partners to meld emerging 20th century technology with sophisticated galactic knowledge in the face of impending Armageddon.

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Machine invasion plans are ongoing, reaching across the core.

Obstacles remain.

Bio-hominids have new detection devices.

Dominance may be in doubt.

Outside the anterior of the galactic core, inhabited star systems have become prime hunting grounds for machine ships, feeding off the gas giants, decimating populations, leaving fear in the minds of everyone.

Unconcerned about other than personal details, sentient beings walked, crawled, swam, or flew through local flora and fauna on many planets, in a myriad of star systems dotting the galactic cluster.

A select number helped on occasion, watched, and waited, but of them all there were too few, too far apart and too busy, choosing not to know or care about what happened “out there”.

Delan Gowrie is posted as General Consul, to solve another dispute. Lilis Conig is undercover, hunting the clandestine movements of a gang of thieves.

Val Ros takes on a new career assignment.

Tyn and Jeff’s family is increasing. They are growing tired of arbitrations and surveys.

An AADM has been captured. Is this the break the Marines and Marshal’s Council have been waiting for?

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Formidable twin Howackans and a rebellious Abiston must choose.

One to stay, two are free, forever linked.

The past cannot be changed, the future uncertain.

Recruitment of prescient beings, maintaining every effort to predict machine encroachment within the Dowpe-Currian and Sagnus-Carcen galactic arms continues.

Six years have passed. Children grow and priorities change. Soon, a child of dual heritage, whose destiny lies in an undefined future, one of Rauga, who hears machine language. Parental anguish may save perimeter space, but the cost may be too great. Distant relatives of ancient stewards and old dynasties are called to battle.

An insignificant and non-aligned planet on the fringe of Dowpe-Currian remains unaware that machines are again gathering in the void.

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Time has elapsed.

A different generation reflects on the history of galactic involvement.

Accounts of UFO's, aliens and strange occurrences abound.

A startlingly strong signal heard on Earth, whimsically notarized, "Wow.

The machines have returned.

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The two-part conclusion of Machines

Logic supersedes . . . circuits can be repaired . . . time is irrelevant. LAW2A waited . . . scanning the anterior arms of the galaxy . . . sensory tentacles reached out . . . searching.

Near one of several billion stars in another galaxy  . . . a logically structured and powerful mind, decoded and sent back . . . ‘we perceive you’.

‘The machines are gone’ headlines announced on every holo and handheld across  thousands of inhabited worlds. Humanoids and other sentient beings smug in their victory, rejoiced.                                                         

End . . . pending . . .

Includes a Galaxy map, worlds, peoples, ships, machine acronyms and pronunciation guide.

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Part 1 of 2

An unremarkable planet, in part of the Revella cluster, ruled by a pseudo-monarchy. Lampo’s surface was dull trapazohedral crystals, the locals call Smoky Red Agalene after exploitive mining had taken all the richest veins. 

One lucky raffle ticket, and Sam Maart has won a starship. Abandoned by parents searching for the next big score, Sam struggles with self-discovery; gets entangled with notorious starship broker Itty Hest; meets the fascinating Gegé Vassa; loses a best friend to the underworld; gains a partner just in time to mount a search and rescue on her starship.

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At the request of the newly formed Ranger council, Netna Wen, Ralia and Su Oco are granted authority to patrol Revella’s stars and planets.

The range of H.B. Stein’s (aka Neel Baxe), criminal empire remains a threat to the peace and commerce of Revella cluster. Seemingly able to evade capture and prosecution by shifting blame or leaving no direct evidence, he resettles on Targus, where his contacts are broad and well established deep within many controlling corporations and into governments. 

Work was just beginning for Chosen Ranger Netna Wer, Guardian Rangers Ralia and Su Oco.

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S.C.U.M

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