Author Mac McKechnie produces three new fascinating science-fiction books

*Prolific Yorkshire author Mac McKechnie at a book signing.

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About the Author - Mac McKechnie.
Mac McKechnie is a Yorkshireman who lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Now aged 75, he has the welcome luxury of time to return fully to his lifelong love of writing. Mac is an active Christian and serves as Pastor of his local church in Barnsley. 

His writing reflects a deep interest in human character, moral choice, and the quiet resilience that surfaces in times of crisis. He has written several books across a range of genres, with science fiction and Westerns among his favourites, alongside more reflective and character-led work inspired by everyday life.

Exodus: Escape From Earth: The Trilogy -Paperback.

By author Mac McKechnie.

*EXODUS: This is the first book in the Escape from Earth trilogy. 

This is the link to the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3OxDQqS

Earth is dying. Humanity’s last hope lies far beyond its own atmosphere, carried aboard a small fleet of deep-space ships sent into the unknown. Each vessel carries thousands of frozen colonists — and a single commander tasked with an impossible responsibility.

For Fleet Captain Roger Harrington, command of HMS London means years of isolation, a forbidden reliance on a ship’s intelligence, and the haunting knowledge that time is stealing the life he left behind.

For Fleet Captain Molly Anderson, command of HMS Sheffield arrives too soon — and ends in catastrophe. When disaster strikes deep in space, the mission she trained for vanishes in an instant, leaving only three survivors, a silent ship, and a decision that will define the rest of their lives.

Exodus is a powerful, reflective science-fiction novel about endurance, leadership, love forged under pressure, and what remains of humanity when hope itself must be re-invented.

Keplar: Escape From Earth: 

The Trilogy - Paperback.

By author Mac McKechnie.

This is Book Two of the Escape from Earth trilogy.

https://amzn.to/4s1PsAO

Earth is gone. The ships that fled it are alone.
Captain Harry Fellows commands HMS Edinburgh — a deep-space vessel carrying nearly five thousand frozen pioneers and a mission without a map. Beyond the limits of known space, every decision carries irreversible consequence, and leadership is measured not in rank, but in lives preserved or lost.

When an unexpected distress call shatters the silence of the void, the Edinburgh is drawn into a rescue that will alter its course forever. Survival demands impossible choices, fragile alliances, and the courage to trust both human judgement and artificial intelligence in equal measure.

As the ship presses on toward a distant, uncharted world known as Keplar, hope and danger begin to intertwine. What awaits is not an empty planet — but a living one, with its own rules, its own history, and a cost far greater than anyone anticipated.

Keplar is a compelling, character-driven science-fiction novel about leadership under pressure, love forged in isolation, moral responsibility, and the price of building a future when the past has already been lost.

 

HOPE: Escape From: Earth - The Trilogy - Paperback.

By author Mac McKechnie.

*HOPE: This is Book Three — and the concluding novel — of the Escape from Earth trilogy. https://amzn.to/4rdND3b

Earth is a memory. Survival is no longer enough.
Captain June Alton has already done the impossible — delivering thousands of pioneers safely to a new world. But when she sets out again aboard HMS Birmingham with a small volunteer crew, she does, so knowing that humanity’s future will not be decided by distance alone, but by the choices made along the way.

A faint transmission draws June toward another Fleet vessel believed lost. What she finds instead is evidence of betrayal, mass murder, and a crime that demands justice far beyond the reach of any court or command. As old loyalties collapse and the truth emerges, June must decide what kind of civilisation deserves to endure.

When a second uncharted planet is reached — a world they come to call Hope — survival finally gives way to something rarer: the freedom to choose how to live, not just how to endure. But peace, once earned, must be protected, even if that means turning away from power, technology, and the call of the stars.

Hope is a thoughtful, character-driven science-fiction novel about leadership, justice, love, and the courage to stop searching when home has finally been found.