John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.
This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.
John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.
He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords
John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.
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¡La guerra entre Autobots y Decepticons ha terminado!
En los lejanos confines del cosmos, en órbita alrededor de una estrella enana amarilla, gira un planeta… ¡Tan inusual como peligroso! Cybertron, una deslustrada joya incrustada en un anillo de luz que luce en el puño cerrado del universo. Sus colinas, en las que una vez brillaron el acero y el cromo, están ahora ennegrecidas por innumerables milenios de guerra civil.
Sus habitantes evolucionaron, no de células a músculos y huesos, sino de metal a engranajes y palancas. Una habilidad excepcional apareció entre ellos, la habilidad de cambiar de forma a voluntad para adaptarse mejor a su entorno. A lo largo de la galaxia, los de su índole llegaron a ser conocidos, y temidos, como… los Transformers.
Guerra es la suerte que el destino decretó que recaería sobre ellos, una guerra interminable…Hasta que llegó un líder. Un cybertroniano que unió el planeta, que terminó con los enfrentamientos…Que dio a estos gigantes de metal un nuevo comienzo.
Lo llamaron Prime…
Título original: Transformers Robots in Disguise # 11-16, annual 2012.
Editorial original: IDW.
Título : Transformers Robots in Disguise nº 02/05
EAN : 9788416476121
Editorial : Planeta Cómic
Edad, de : 14 años
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