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A new science fiction novel that marks a bold departure for Michael Storm. Alien Cargo mixes thrills with laughs, action with pathos, and a passionate love story across the boundaries

THE PARALLEL SYSTEM - Occupation is a uniquely human trait. Whether it be a piece of your neighbor's property, a chunk of rain forest, an entire country, or someone else's planet. If it's within sniffing distance of the Human conquistadorial nose it shall be swallowed.
For military pilot Brett Coles the war between the races has been an ethical dilemma he's so far been pushing out of the way. But when his bomber wings are taken away in favor of a job piloting aid missions to the occupied native population, he is forced to reevaluate. And his position is made no less personal - or difficult - when a beautiful young alien woman crosses his path.
His precocious daughter has problems that become his, and so does his ex-wife and her toyboy lover.
Around Brett Coles are other assorted characters, each with their own agenda. Among these we find the callous Sidney Lemongrass, lawyer and newly appointed governor of the Folihappo outpost. Teeranne, hooker with a heart and, it turns out, formidable business acumen. Forbes Tender, the frustrated and lethal robot bartender, who is prepared to go to any lengths to be equipped with the tool(s) to experience the most fundamental of human enjoyments…

ABOUT

Contact Michael at: info@pulp7.org

BOOKS

PULP7 - A SWEET DEAL FROM HELL, A KILLER CALLING, A MAN INSIDE!

The original! The one that started it all. Michael Storm gives you the coolest reading on the planet with his Pulp7 debut. Three stories in three different worlds. Pulp7 is visually rich, violent, comical and poignant - everything you could possibly want from pulp fiction!

In the city of Diabolis three teenagers exist outside the system, waging a spiritual war - on physical terms. Stinga, Slick and Santoz track down a wayward Christian rock group to whom Lucy-Boy has promised the world, as usual. Things get noisy and messy as the Demon Killaz set about ripping to shreds A SWEET DEAL FROM HELL! More...

What happens when your ministry becomes a mystery? When your new calling makes no sense? Youth pastors Chris Jordan Jr and Danny Ferraro are finding out. Chosen by divine appointment to become private investigators there's only one problem. Neither of them knows what to do or where to begin. But that doesn't stop A KILLER CALLING! More...

Gas City had everything you could hope for, or be sorry about. That set Jack Sneaker up for job security. And his biggest case. A case no one had hired him to solve. Then a blonde showed up, looking for a guy. The District Attorney no less. Turned out the future of the city was at stake. Step into the dark streets and follow Jack Sneaker and his cool, deducing mind searching deeper and deeper for A MAN INSIDE! More...

PULP7 Quartereader 1:

- Chris and Danny want to quit. Do they ever. But they can't. Why? 'Cause they've got 'A Killer Calling!', that's why!
- A hotshot attorney's been shot in Jack's office. The race against time speeds up to identify 'A Man Inside!'
- The Killaz get the ultimate wake-up call. The job is far from over as things get hot in 'A Sweet Deal From Hell!'

PULP7 Quartereader 2:

- They're doing a job they despise. It's almost cost them their lives. Can 'A Killer Calling' get any worse?
- Will Philip West survive the night? Will Jack nail the killer before he rules Gas City ? It's in 'A Man Inside!'
- First task, secure head-quarters. Second, find the boys in the band. 'A Sweet Deal From Hell!' rocks on...

PULP7 Quartereader 3:

- The District Attorney's in hospital. Jack's broken into City Hall and Ann dates cold death. It's 'The Man Inside!'
- 'A Killer Calling' improves. Rookies Chris and Danny nail a deal with Di Silva. Shame about the bomb though...
- A new strategy. When in Rome be like a Roman etc. But how does 'A Sweet Deal From Hell' really sound...?

PULP7 Quartereader 4:

- A shattering visit to the morgue changes everything! A brutal trap is set and closed by ‘The Man Inside’!
- A turning point for the beaten and bruised detective agency! Or is it? The smoke clears in ‘A Killer Calling’!
- Getting into show business is hard! Getting out in one piece is harder! The reason is ‘A Sweet Deal From Hell!’

Michael Storm, merciless purveyor of action-packed fiction, brings the hat trick of stories from the innovative Pulp7 series to a blockbuster close in the Pulp7 Quarterfinal!

- 'The Man Inside' comes out! It's personal history - and a death sentence - for the coolest private eye making a living in Gas City ! Police Chief Forrester doubts his pickle and the 18th get a convertible they weren't expecting. And all that's before the surprise phone call to Harry's Bar...
- How do you stop 'A Killer Calling'? The hard way! Our two rookies get into more action than they or the West Hollywood police - or anyone - could ever believe! And Danny goes where he swore never to go! Hey, at least it looks good printed and framed. Is quitting an option?
- The Killaz hit a wall in 'A Sweet Deal From Hell'! Father Clements is firm. Lucy-Boy's little kill sends ripples, all the way to the mansion party! The boys are stuck good. Takes a dare-devil race for Stinga! A song for Santoz and a blast from Slick, or two. And flowing green blood...

IN THE WORKS...

Soon to come is a story about Detective Inspector Lyndon Mills of London's Scotland Yard. As part of a special branch whose task it is to 'close' particularly awkward cases, Mills has done a 'closer' that annoyed some people. For his own safety, and the peace of mind of his boss, Chief Constable Edmund Barnhart, he is being sent away for a while. And not just anywhere. He's leaving Earth altogether. Mills will become Head of Security on the Red Star, a huge space platform in orbit.

You thought the current ISS (International Space Station) was something, just wait till you see the Red Star.

Anyway, up here, among thousands of scientists and their families, freighter and shuttle crews, Lyndon Mills gets involved in more ways than he expected. One particular problem is the lovely Alison Barnhart. Former wife of his Scotland Yard chief...

Oddly connected to all this, is an archeological find not far from the borders of Mongolia. A collection of artifacts that are rumored to be from the lost continent of Atlantis. Whatever they are, they pack a weird power. And people are getting killed...

BIO MATTERS

Michael Storm was born in Guildford, Surrey, England on November 11, 1959, to a British father and a Finnish mother. A Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factory worker and a nurse, who met in the Guildford All-Nations club for better or worse. His grandparents in turn hail from Ireland, Scotland, Karelia, Russia and Bulgaria. As you can imagine, an unimaginable cocktail, says Storm of himself, who maintains that his bloodline would set off the fire alarm at any genetics lab.

In the early 60's Michael's parents moved with their toddler to Sweden and settled there. Storm grew up in Stockholm. As an adult he returned to England for a period of eight years, following a three-year sojourn in the US.

Writing was always in the family. Michael’s grandfather and great grandfather were published novelists as well as frequent contributors to the British storypapers of old, such as Detective Weekly and Boys Own, featuring the classic Scotland Yard detective Sexton Blake for which Michael’s great grand-father, Alfred Ernest, created one of the most popular of Detective Blake’s nemeses, George Marsden Plummer.
Another of Michael's relatives, Veronica Westlake, wrote horse books for girls.

Despite such heritage Michael’s own writing appeared late. ‘If only someone had told me!’ Storm says. ‘That’s what you get for never asking…’ Thus, other foci had to be dispensed with first. Initial ambitions to become a Royal Air Force fighter pilot were cruelly dashed by a school nurse.
‘So, young man, care to tell me what colored letter you see in there among the dots in this circle, hm?’
‘Uh, can’t see a letter in this circle, nurse.’
‘Really? What a shame…’

After bitter tears at the loss of all purpose, Storm one day found himself gazing at a drum kit in church. A stick was picked up, then another. A drum was touched, then struck, then beaten. Here was a new world – and the future.

After a number of extremely focused years annoying neighbors and playing in local Stockholm bands, he began touring and recording with a variety of groups in Scandinavia, including a stint with Sweden’s renowned Jerusalem and six months with Norway’s award-winning Kainos. Rife with ambition, and further encouraged by an Irish record producer who shall remain nameless, he set his sights on the Entertainment Capital of the world and spent the early 1980’s recording and paying his dues in clubs in Los Angeles.

While in Southern California a shift into the film and television business seemed not unnatural. ‘While you’re out there the dust of Hollywood does tend to get up your nose,’ Storm says. As a result of this dubious nasal affliction, Michael Storm suffered the following twenty years working with visual media in a variety of capacities (drumming was still there). Storm has produced short films and worked puppets for television series, directed scores of music videos and cut prize-winning animation. That is, cut as opposed to edit. Working scissors and splicer on actual film.
‘A peaceful and wonderfully satisfying process which modern production economics simply don’t allow for,’ admits Storm on a nostalgic note. ‘Those days are missed. As is my beloved Steenbeck four-plate editing table.’

The man is also an award-winning actor and a prolific screenwriter. His work has been seen on Fox, Nickelodeon UK, and on Scandinavian and Middle Eastern television. Michael has also written for the national Swedish radio broadcaster, SR.

The groundbreaking Pulp7 series marks Michael’s book debut.

Drumming is still there, he claims. Only temporarily subdued. Somewhat like a beloved possession currently looking good on the bookshelf.
'Should dust it off really, shouldn't I?'

A lost father and a hijacked government mission. Her leave was off to a great start...

SCANDITOWN, 23rd CENTURY - A young undercover courier working for the post European Union government returns to her hometown to see her father and enjoy some time off. Father and daughter have been estranged from one another for many years. Time has healed wounds and the reunion is longed for. But in the weeks before she arrives he disappears. The drugs samples she’s delivering to the Scanditown government lab get violently hijacked and destroyed. Is there a connection between her father’s disappearance and the strange attraction she and her mission have suddenly gained?
Michael Storm pulls the reader into a futuristic world through which he weaves an outlandish thriller full of twists and turns, gripping characters and wrenching emotions. Follow government agent Solo Niece as she comes face to face and heart to heart with more than she could ever in a lifetime have bargained for.

ORBITAL HIGHWAY 18 - Carl Rock, a 16-year-old boy from Earth, is back in orbit. He is heading straight for his favorite home away from home. Multinoid's Workshop. The best satellite repair shop in the entire galaxy. But, upon his arrival Carl, his robot friend Multinoid and the entire Roboshop crew receive word that things are about to drastically change for the tiny meteorite-housed shop. The ever-flashy WOE Corporation (We Own Everything) is moving in on their territory, with the huge and glitzy WoeTech super-service platform. Advertizing better rates, better repair and more efficient service and who knows what... and is threatening to put Multinoid's shop out of business for good! And it's not just a threat. Mister Goldboulder wants the Roboshop shut down! In the name of progress, cost-cutting, centralization and what have you!
Yet dozens of satellites - old friends of Multinoid's - return to the trusty little Roboshop when all manner of strange mechanical failures begin to plague them. After visiting the magnificent WoeTech!
Can Carl and Multinoid find out what's really going on before it's too late? Before Multinoid's great old workshop is dismantled and dumped into the lava pits on Junker Nine, at the peril of all of known space?

From the wild imagination of Pulp7 author, Michael Storm, comes a story for all sci-fi readers young at heart. Get strapped in for unstoppable adventure with Carl Rock, Multinoid, Gadgette, Major Higgins, the Minister of Signals and all the others great characters in The Roboshop!

Reader quotes: 'Reading Storm's Roboshop is like watching - watching - the craziest action movie!'
'If only I'd had The Roboshop to read when I was younger!'

This is Carl Rock's Jet Ball. Tuned for illegal speeds, naturally...

A bass tuba...

STOKER BAY - Vicky Sheldon is no ordinary crime fighter. At 16 she is just like any other Christian teenage girl dealing with the daily issues of appearance, dating, grades, dreams of white picket fences, God’s will etc. But there's one thing that sets her apart from her piers. Something extraordinary and inspiring. Vicky happens to be equipped with a unique quality. A special character that blossoms into action whenever the situation calls for it. That character is Biblegirl. A crime-fighting, sin-battling, unbelief-quenching, hard-hitting spiritual dynamo, filled with the Word of God and not afraid to use it. Whenever danger and crime rears its ugly head Vicky will don her alter ego - and her homemade superhero suit - and go into battle with the Word of God as her weapon.
She lives with her eccentric grandfather in a small apartment over his little corner bookstore in the older part of Stoker Bay. Until his recent retirement Mr Humphrey Sheldon was a military engineer in the Special Branch. That meant he worked in hidden laboratories and underground vaults with 'classified asset development'. As Vicky grows and her extra-curricular activities increase in danger Humphrey sees little choice than to put some of his old skills to work. First and foremost, to ensure his only grandchild stays alive. The Word of God will take care of itself.