Kenneth Adrian (K A) Bedford – April 28 2019

Adrian is an award-winning science fiction writer. He has been writing since early childhood and started writing seriously when he was 14. However, it wasn’t until 2003, at the age of 40, that his first novel was published. Adrian attended both Curtin and Murdoch universities in Perth where he studied writing, theatre and philosophy. He is currently enrolled at Edith Cowan University. Adrian’s other books include Eclipse, Hydrogen Steel, Paradox Resolution (the sequel to Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait), and Black Light. Adrian has suffered from bi-polar disorder he believes his whole life, and was first diagnosed and hospitalised at age 16. His father, Ken, also struggled with mental illness and his mother, Marie, is legally blind due to a rare form of albinism in which her – blue – eyes wobble uncontrollably and she cannot focus. Adrian writes openly and honestly about his life experiences on his website http://littleknownauthor.com/.

Orbital Burn
Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2003; ISBN 9781894063104
In Orbital Burn, a seriously down on her luck unlicensed Stalktown PI named Louise “Lou” Meagher ekes out a sparse living solving petty crimes. She is chronically broke, clinically dead, and nervous about being evacuated from her home planet, Kestrel, which in nine days’ time will be hit by an unstoppable doomsday rock, known as the Bloody Bastard. But Lou takes on one last case: helping a cybernetically enhanced canine, named Dog, locate his former master, a defective biological android boy known only as Kid ….

Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2008; ISBN 9781894063425
For Aloysius Spider Webb, time travel has lost its lustre. Working as a senior time machine repair technician, he has seen it all – past, present and future. Although time travel cost him his job as a top investigating police officer, and fixing time machines is a waste of his talent, he’s resigned to do it until he discovers, inside a broken second-hand time machine, the corpse of a woman; brutally murdered, wrapped in plastic and duct tape. Before he can act on his old police instincts, the shadowy Department of Time and Space steps in, seizes the machine closes the investigation. Spider wants answers, but his questions only lead to more questions; unsettling evidence, brewing trouble, and the knowledge that Spider, himself, might be involved in an epic battle at the End of Time. Who can Spider trust? And what will they tell him: the truth or what he wants to hear?