Böcker av Ron Diesel

In 1883, the Cloncurry native police, led by Marcus Beresford, were ambushed while tracking Kalkadoon warriors in the McKinley ranges. Beresford and three of his troopers were killed. The following year, the Kalkadoon controlled the area, and white people avoided venturing far from Cloncurry. In 1884, Frederick Charles Urquhart was appointed as the new sub inspector of the Native Police in Cloncurry and restocked horses and native troopers, moving their camp further out of town to maintain discipline. That year, James Powell was killed while mustering cattle. Alexander Kennedy, Powell's business partner, gathered a group of men to join forces with Urquhart's Native Police, forming the first paramilitary force in Australia. The Kalkadoon were tracked to Battle Mountain, where over 900 lay in wait. The Kalkadoon had chosen this place for the battle to take place, and had stockpiled weapons. Urquhart ordered a cavalry charge up the mountain, but the Kalkadoon had the tactical advantage and inflicted heavy casualties. Urquhart was injured in the battle, but regained consciousness and ordered his men to flank the mountain. The Kalkadoon warriors charged down the mountain, but were ultimately defeated by rifle fire.

Not unlike Lewis Carroll's young lady, Wayne Philips falls down a hole and enters a wonderland of machinery designed to safeguard the world from the possibility of becoming a lifeless lump of rock.The idea for this story came to me when I visited a lookout at Mt Archer near Rockhampton in Queensland I was told that if I released the hand-brake on my car it would slowly climb uphill and sure enough it happened. When I inquired if my informant knew the reason for this phenomenon I was informed vaguely that it was 'something in the ground'.I wrote the story to hopefully entertain those science fiction readers who are jaded with the idea that the main character has to be a super-hero with a super intellect.