Hayden's Realm

Born in Belfast in 1945, Joe Gillespie won a place at The Royal College of Art and graduated with a Master's Degree in Visual Communication. He worked in the advertising industry in London before setting up his own company, Pixel Productions, developing interactive multimedia. An ardent sci-fi reader, he used his writing skills developed from advertising copy-writing and penned numerous short stories and longer projects that unfortunately ran out of steam due to pressure of work. Now retired to sunny Dorset, he lives a less hectic life involving bird watching, astronomy and catching-up on ideas to change the universe for the better.

"Hayden's Realm packs enough spaceships, gadgets, inter-dimensional quests, rogue government agents and inter-specific pleasantries to sate any Sci-Fi enthusiast. In efficient, whirlwind fashion we follow pilot and engineer Max Hayden on uncharted journeys between dimensional realms. Whether we're stuck in the wrong reality or awaiting alien invasion, the ride is seldom short of puzzles to solve and breath to catch. Gillespie's eagerness to display his aeronautical knowledge and technological imagination leaves little room for character development, humour or literary ingenuity - but perhaps such details would only seem trivial or incongruous in this choppy, breakneck tale. Hayden's Realm twists, turns, explodes and catapults us off into space, doing more than enough to keep its pages freshly turned." - Review by Martin Whittlemore