Gregory Peterson
Author of the War Machines Chronicles
Book 1: War Machines
Book 2: Waiting for the Worms
Book 3: We Built This City
Book 4: Warriors of the Wasteland
COMING SOON- Book 5: Welcome to the Machine
About the Author
Gregory Peterson is a SoCal native and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied English and Chinese studies. After graduation, he was employed as a magazine editor in Los Angeles. He is married and the father of two children who know him as That Guy Who Works In Our Kitchen. An avid surf and snow fiend, he also enjoys playing the guitar and sneaking out in the morning to pursue his lifelong obsession with picking up heavy things and putting them back down again. He lives in Denver, Colorado. You can reach him at SixStringWordSmith@gmail.com or on Bluesky @6StringWord.bsky.social or on Threads at 6stringword@Threads.
War Machines
Aloysius Leigh is a former elite Marine turned high-tech thief. In the aftermath of a heist gone sideways, the technology he was meant to steal invades his body—and leaves him holding the bag for murder.
While the explosive technology seizes control of his body, Leigh must also do battle in the real world as he is hunted by the Russian mob, the FBI, and his former counterterrorist unit who would like nothing more than to get their hands on the dangerous machines swimming around inside of him and who definitely wouldn’t care how.
Leigh is alone and running out of time in a war where his very body and mind are the prize. He is outmanned and outgunned—with no friends, no allies, and nowhere to turn.
What he does have, is a plan.
This Evolution Means War.
Waiting for the Worms
Aloysius Leigh has been shot, burned alive, drowned, tortured, and sent through a wormhole that punched through realities. Escaping an alternate Earth ravaged by an alien infestation when his ride is busted won’t be as easy.
Leigh and his artificial intelligence, Daphne, crash land in an alternate Portland where a rogue comet in 1945 brought a hostile alien species to Earth that wiped out two-thirds of all terrestrial life. Unable to access the Lens, the field that allows Leigh to channel, focus and redirect energy, they are trapped unless they can discover what is interfering with the nanotechnology bound to his body and mind.
What they find is a hidden society of human-alien symbiotes plotting to finish the infestation they started in 1945, and only a powerless Leigh stands in their way.
Humans are the safest place to hide.
We Built This City
Aloysius Leigh is the only living human to travel the unimaginable distance between realities, but a fantastic journey to a hidden world within his mind will leave him hopelessly lost and unable to tell what is real and what is an illusion.
With only days before Mt. St. Helens incinerates an unsuspecting Pacific Northwest in a gargantuan pyroclastic cloud, Leigh arrives in Daphne’s San Francisco to discover he’s a man with a price on his head, and everyone is looking for a payday. In order to locate Daphne and stop the eruption, Leigh must play a deadly game against a criminal organization called the Heptagon that he can’t afford to lose; while in the world outside his mind, a bewildered Leigh finds himself maimed and a prisoner in a place that calls into question his sanity.
Short on time and allies, Leigh must do battle in two very different worlds to keep from losing his mind…or his head.
Reality is an illusion.
Warriors of the Wasteland
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Aloysius Leigh has fought ruthless mercenaries, space-borne aliens, hostile artificial intelligences, and a lifelong knack for getting into trouble that is only narrowly exceeded by his uncanny ability to escape it. Through it all, the benevolent AI personalities within the matrix of the nanotechnology bound to his body and mind have helped him overcome the obstacles in his path and stay alive—until now.
One year and hundreds of realities away from the Portland Islands, Leigh is captured by a society that can control enhanced individuals like him…and turn them into slaves. Severed from the EPU, Leigh is forced into the gladiator pits to fight for his life. At the heart of the bloody contest is a mystery that could resurrect the nanotechnology and free him to continue his journey home across the vast ocean of realities. However, Leigh has only one unreliable ally in this world—one individual who can save them both or doom him to perpetual slavery.
And RJ will find any way he can to worm his way into being the lone champion of this particular fight.
ONLY THE SAVAGE SURVIVE.
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