About the author

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Gerard is an author living in Sydney, Australia. He has published four novels and will have three more out in 2019. Yes, this year is going to be all go go go.
In 2018, May Day (The Erelong Trilogy, Book II) was long-listed for the Wattys Award. Unfortunately the book missed out on the short list. But it did inspire me to add to my New Year's resolution list. I must enter a book in another competition in 2019. 

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 Atoma and the Blockchain Game
 is book 1 in a new science fiction series.
​For teens and young adults.
​​The latest release!
​IIn 2050, Earth Incorporated runs the entire planet using the Blockchain...

It's too bad Atoma chose that particular morning to throw away the medicine she is given for her attention deficit disorder. If she had strapped herself into the seat, she might have walked away from the accident. She would still be at High School like most other fifteen-year-olds in Chicago. They would not have been discovered her real status... 

And things are only going to get worse now that the artificial intelligence treating her has announced she is not human. Atoma faces a life sentence in a re-education camp in the freezing Alaskan coastal plain where the gulags are filled with Zeros just like her, but a secretive research center intervenes to make an offer she really should refuse... What lies ahead for Atoma is an extraordinary adventure in a dangerous and exotic world that's a long way from anything she has ever known.
May Day (The Erelong Trilogy Book II)
A hard SF techno-thriller!
Storm has discovered a shocking secret hidden in plain sight. One the world can never be told about... 

This hard SF follow-up to the thriller Jubilee Year is especially for fans of A. G. Riddle, Scott Sigler, and Vernor Vinge. 

The tiny sister star to the Sun is their ultimate weapon, but only if its arrival remains a secret. 

Storm Elliot and corporal Sean Cameron are on a mission to warn Sydney that an unthinkable natural disaster is about to strike. A sudden geographic pole shift is imminent. To survive the tsunamis, people must travel inland, but the two men find the city a fortress under the control of brutal government forces. 

A nuclear submarine crosses the Pacific with a very special cargo. A bizarre experiment is about to target the rebellion. Storm and his companions have their work cut out for them... Ancient forces far stronger than governments are at play in what is a multilayered, deadly game. As the Dark Star wreaks havoc on the solar system, hidden players position to call checkmate on planet Earth... 

This is Book II of The Erelong Trilogy, but it can be enjoyed as a standalone. Best of all, it's another full-length novel! 
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Read the first book in the series... 
JUBILEE YEAR (THE ERELONG TRILOGY BOOK 1)
Jubilee Year (The Erelong Trilogy,   Book I)
A hard SF techno-thriller!
Storm is able to remember everything, and he hates it. Some memories are best forgotten. 

His girlfriend's father, an astronomer, has asked him to deliver a coded message far too frightening to be written down. They don't know a powerful few will do anything to keep the world from finding out how bad things are going to get.

Death squads, the giant beneath Parliament House, a nemesis from outer space, and even the forthcoming apocalypse... are all supposed to be a secret.

Yet, signs of trouble on the way are everywhere. Brilliant green meteors streak over the outback. The freakish weather grows more extreme. World war is on the horizon. 
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Once the huge and mysterious Martyn tells him the awful truth, Storm is on the run in a race against time to protect all that's dearest to him. But, the price of survival is one an 18-year-old farm boy could never imagine.

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And the series continues...
MAY DAY (THE ERELONG TRILOGY BOOK 2)
READERS FAVORITE
​Official Review by Mike Dixon

(Read the whole review by clicking on the title)

​Excerpt from review:
​"Gerard O’Neill gives us a taste of the perils that lurk in outer space...  Jubilee Year takes a look at what might happen if powerful people attempt to harness a threat from outer space and use it for their own ends. As always, ordinary folk get caught up in the quest for power. I liked Jubilee Year. The underlying philosophy is great, the science is okay and the writing style is often brilliant."
The Girl With Two Names is a standalone novel that originated out of a screenplay.
"Four out of four stars!" - Official Review, Online Book Club

Self-obsessed Japanese icon, Yayoi, appears to have it all. Fame, fortune, and a celebrity marriage... But she has a hole where her heart should be.

At home she has an abusive husband, and at work an oppressive recording contract with J-BIG Corp, a company controlled by her husband's family that crushes her creativity. And, she's still haunted by the tsunami that swept away her mother and her village. 
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Viciously assaulted while on a film shoot in New Zealand, she flees her husband aided by Bill a young corporate attorney. Furious, her husband employs two mercenaries to pursue the pair through the wilds of the East coast. Unaware of the deadly nature of the chase, the two fugitives quickly form a bond that develops into a heated and desperate romance. While Bill finds himself embroiled in her battle, Yayoi must come to terms with her past or be consumed by it.
​ONLINE BOOK CLUB
Official Review by Momlovesbooks

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Excerpt from review:
"I rate this novel 4 out of 4 stars based on the reasons above. I think this book would be enjoyed by adult readers who enjoy romance and suspense novels. I plan on reading Mr. O'Neill's first book in the Erelong Trilogy..."