Daniel Poore | Author of Down To Earth

Down To Earth

Some days you just want to get away. Other days you just hope you’ll get home...

Down To Earth is the first novel by Daniel Poore. It follows the adventures of jaded estate agent Marlow Tudor as he attempts the astronomically tricky task of selling the most undesirable property in the known universe.

It’s the near future. Earth’s global population has reached ten billion and accommodation is in ever shortening supply. It should be a very lucrative time to be an estate agent but, despite working for Astute Estates, one of the biggest agencies on the planet, Marlow Tudor is hampered by an unsympathetic boss, overbearing colleagues and the most debilitating condition ever to befall someone in his line of work: pathological honesty.

And then there’s the matter of the property that even the company’s best agents have been unable to sell. The property that is now Marlow’s responsibility. To sell that, he’ll need to reluctantly go where no estate agent has gone before ...

... and what goes up doesn’t always come back Down To Earth.

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The Crew

Marlow Tudor

Courageous. Adventurous. Indomitable. These are all words Marlow Tudor can spell. And he knows what sixty-seven percent of them mean. But he doesn’t quite know how he became the first estate agent to find himself in deep space. He didn’t even know space had a deep end.

Dr Julia Lowe

Julia finds herself in the unenviable position of commanding the Santa Maria. She appears confident but who can say what the pressure of interstellar travel can do?

Dr Mollie Sterling

What one might refer to as the ‘real world’ is usually something of a disappointment to Mollie. She prefers the perfection that can only be found inside a digital environment. An ideal world to Mollie is one made of ones and zeros. Absolutes. No grey areas. Maybe that’s what drew her to the monochrome world of the Institute.

Prof Rupert Heyman

With a degree in engineering and a Masters in Astronautics, Professor Heyman has always had his eyes fixed on the stars. But self-doubt has blighted a once promising career and Rupert hasn’t taught in years. Marlow might not be the only person aboard the Santa Maria who doesn’t feel like they belong.

The Santa Maria

So you want to travel the unexplored far reaches of space? No? Well, that’s something you have in common with Marlow. But if you change your mind you couldn’t find a more luxurious method of interstellar transportation than the Santa Maria.

Twin hydrogen fusion drive engines. Four landing thrusters. Her own gravity-generating particle accelerator. Deep pile carpets in the cargo bay and the only coffee table aboard any spaceship in the known galaxy.

If only someone had thought to install a sat nav...

About the author

Daniel has a degree in Computer Studies and loves new technology. He speaks several languages, English being the only one spoken by other human beings. He lives near the fictional town of Penbridge in the South of England and, a fan of all things meta, he is currently writing what he mistakenly thinks is a witty bio about himself in the third person.

If you want to say hi, want to know more or you’re just feeling lonely on your journey through the dark void of space you can contact him via DigiMail.