Hi. I'm Craig Robert Saunders. I write science fiction under this name.

Lore is my first pure science fiction novel. There are more forthcoming, inc. three books for Severed Press.

My complete author profile: Craig Saunders is the author of forty (or so) novels and novellas, including 'ALT-Reich', 'Vigil' and 'Hangman', and has written over a hundred short stories, available in anthologies and magazines, 'best of' collections and audio formats. He writes fantasy as Craig R. Saunders, science fiction as Craig Robert Saunders, but publishes the majority of his fiction as 'Craig Saunders'.
Imprints: Dark Fable Books/Fable Books.
Likes: Nice people, games, books, and doggos.
Dislikes: Weird smells, surprises, and gang fights in Chinatown alleyways.
He's happy to talk over at:
www.craigrsaunders.blogspot.com
@Grumblesprout
Praise for Craig Saunders:
[Masters of Blood and Bone] '...combines the quirkiness of Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series with the hardcore mythology of Clive Barker to create an adventure that is both entertaining and terrifying.' - examiner.com
[Vigil] 'A gripping accomplishment.' - Murder, Mayhem and More.
'Saunders is fast becoming a must read author...' - Scream.
[Bloodeye] '...razor-sharp prose.' Wayne Simmons, author of Flu and Plastic Jesus.
'Plain and simple, this guy can write.' - Edward Lorn, author of Bay's End.
[Deadlift] 'Noir-like, graphic novel-like horror/thriller/awesomeness.' - David Bernstein, author of Relic of Death and Witch Island.
'A master of the genre.' Iain Rob Wright.
[Spiggot] 'Incredibly tasteless, shamelessly lowbrow, and very, very funny.' - Jeff Strand.
[A Home by the Sea] 'Brutal and poetic...' - Bill Hussey, author of Through a Glass, Darkly.
[Rain] '...the best book I've read in a year.' - The Horror Zine.
[Cold Fire] '...full of emotion and heart.' - Ginger Nuts of Horror.

The ship Orpal searches the far realms of space for an answer which might heal an epoch-old rift between the three great factions - the robots of the Tradition, the Ecentrists, and the Lore. He travels with the hunter Jiall Kyle Iris and his genogun. Confident of their abilities, each excellent in their fields, and now neck-deep in the nascent war about to embroil every form of sentient life in the universe.
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The Tradition stand for power, grandeur, remembrance. On the other side of the scale the Ecentrists weigh heavy. They wish for a cataclysm unlike any ever known, one large enough to sweep aside the obsolete. If the Tradition and Ecentrists sit either side of the scales, perhaps the Lore are the scales. A higher intellect, they are peaceful, and as such remain distant from the growing strife. But they watch, for the Lore once knew war.
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Behind each move Orpal makes is a darker influence - Habla'saem, the socioassassin. The killer of societies throughout history, a murderer of empires, he moves pieces in a game only he can see, and this time the socioassassin's designs are greater than ever...
His sights are set on the annihilation of the Lore.