Phillip Mann

Lynn Freeman talks to director, actor, playwright and novelist Phillip Mann about his long held love of reading and writing science fiction, with the publication of his latest novel, 'The… Audio

As The Nightingale finally lifts off from the distant planet, Wilberfoss is forced to make his own fatal decision. But it is the motivation for the action he takes that eventually leads to his own… Audio

Wilberfoss meets the gigantic alien creature, discovers it is highly intelligent and begins to communicate with it in rudimentary sign language. Audio

The truth begins to emerge about the dreadful consequences of The Nightingale's attempt to cope with the storm. Audio

The Nightingale makes a fatal mistake as it tries to cope with a huge storm that sweeps across the surface of the planet where it has crash landed. Audio

Before recounting the actual crash, Wulf the autoscribe, takes us forward to the eventual recovery of The Nightingale and the rescue of its only survivor, Wilberfoss. Audio

The strange alien,the Quelle, causes real problems aboard The Nightingale and contributes to the disastrous crash of the starship on a remote planet. Audio

The Nightingale begins its maiden voyage. The shepherd boy, Sandy, comes aboard and is taken over by the strange alien entity, the Quelle. Audio

Wulf gives an account of his own evolution. We board The Nightingale for the first time as Wilberfoss connects with the ship's biocrystalline brain. Audio

Wulf replays Wilberfoss' own account of his early life and adolescence and his journey towards accepting the captaincy of The Nightingale. Audio

Wulf, the ancient robotic autoscribe, begins his account of events taking us back to the moment when Jon Wilberfoss is invited to captain the huge interstellar mercy ship, The Nightingale. Audio

Phillip Mann is the author of the Paxwax science fiction series. Audio