Welcome to The Splines!

This page is dedicated to the science-fiction series by Nigel Moxley. The Splines will be a series of suspense stories, based in the near future, about the gradual alien colonisation of the earth. It tells the story of the trials and tribulations of sharing the Earth with another intelligent life form.

Desert Snow, the first in the series, covers the discovery of the alien life form, initial contact and the uneasy standoff that ensues. It traces the developing relationship of the book’s hero Dave Yorke with the alien life form and his relationship with Dr Charlie Freeman UCLA.

Resonance, the second in the series is coming soon.

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Desert Snow has now been published by

Vamptasy Publishing and is available on their website as well as on Amazon and the Barnes & Noble websites:

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Review by one customer on Amazon

Haven't you ever admired a desert rose, that strange petal-shaped crystal which grows in arid deserts? But appearances can be deceptive. The ancient name for gypsum is `spear stone' because of its sharp needle-like projections. Just now imagine that you are walking in the Tucson desert, the site of the main action of Nigel Moxley's science fiction thriller `The Splines', and are charmed by a white expanse that appears like brilliant scintillating snow spreading away into the distance. The story starts with two homicide detectives Lieutenants Dave Yorke and his partner Phil Brown driving into the desert to investigate a double grizzly murder of two missing teenagers. Beneath one of the tyres of the teenagers' abandoned vehicle Dave finds a crystal eight inches long with three sharp edges and with the end broken off that is lying nearby. This is the start of a gripping story of what could happen when our planet is colonized by a totally alien life form, super rational, of superior intelligence, with boundless power, and a stoic observer of humanity. The story moves at a cracking pace to narrate what happens when emotional reasoning clashes with dispassionate logic, involving a duplicitous FBI, army and political establishment, against an indestructible alien life form that came upon our world by accident and have nowhere else to go. Can they learn to live together? This is the underlying tense question of `Desert Snow', the first part of the series. What will happen to Dave Yorke, the unintentional interlocutor between humanity and the alien life form, and Dr Charlie Freeman his troubled girlfriend? I am awaiting with bated breath the second volume, `The Splines Resonance'. Will our world survive?