THE TRIAL OF GARDENER LODDEN

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Synopsis

‎The Queen of the Critons rules her sector of the galaxy with an iron fist but she has a softer side. Her private retreat is a garden planet, Spara 692, supervised by one of her favorites, a Criton scientist called Lodden. She loves her garden planet and refers to its guardian as "Gardener Lodden." However, when she visits with her recently acquired male consort, she is frightened by a large carnivorous dinosaur and leaves the planet in a dangerous dark mood. Lodden is devastated and retreats to his home on the planet's only moon where he puts himself into absolute cryostasis for millions of years and whilst he "sleeps" weeds grow in the garden. The worst weeds are bipeds evolved from apes who take over the planet, pollute the atmosphere and damage flora and fauna. When Lodden awakes, it is inevitable that sooner or later there will be an encounter between Lodden and a biped (or "human") and when this happens, a train of events unfold that leads back to the Queen herself and a dread judgement.

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John Nichols graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1967 and entered General Practice in Guildford in 1971. He spent six months as research assistant to Ian Watson at the Shere GP practice in Surrey working on various projects including a trial of revaccination against measles 5-10 years after primary immunisation which showed a decline in immunity that was boosted by revaccination. In 1973 he joined The Fairlands GP Practice near Guildford where he was able to collaborate with university colleagues on a number of research projects. He was also a GP trainer for 20 years. He graduated the MSc Nutritional Medicine in 2005 and was subsequently appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2011. He has published research on zinc status and postnatal depression, trace elements and female infertility, smoking cessation, diverticular disease and the use of probiotics in primary care. Published books include two books on Nutritional Medicine and three works of fiction. One science fiction novel has been published as a paperback and two are currently only available as e-books; all available through Amazon books.

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What happened here?

When Julia spied on Lodden, he used a brain ray to knock her out and then used a brain probe to wipe her memory. However, she's a bright girl and she knows something isn't right. She persuades her boyfriend, Philip, to take her back to the place where she had been found lost and groggy in the Kalahari desert and they start to dig for evidence. The first thing they find is evidence that some sort of rocket ship has blasted a crater in the rocky terrain. No, Philip, it wasn't a Russian spy with a rocket ship, it was Lodden. Will they track down the mysterious alien? and will their friendship blossom into something more permanent?

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THE TRIAL OF GARDENER LODDEN

‘It's like two stray pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.’

‘What?’

‘The neurologist said there were signs of recent ECT on my ECG tracing and now this heat crater you have found. It must mean something’

‘That you were captured by Russian spies who did something nasty to your brain and then escaped in a rocket ship?’

‘Phillip my dear - it could almost be that.’

‘Well, they didn't do anything too terrible to you. You're still as gorgeous as ever,’ he said, sliding his arm round her waist. ‘I'm sure the rest of the jig saw puzzle is down there.’

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John Anthony Alvan Nichols

THE TRIAL OF GARDENER LODDEN

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THE TRIAL OF GARDENER LODDEN

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