Simon Drake

Simon Drake is a Writer, member of a Space Start-up, creator of Chatbots, and collector of Antique Maps.


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To contact me regarding work or business send me an email.
I also have profiles on LinkedIn and Xing. I have lived and worked in Australia, United Kingdom and Germany, and speak English and moderate German.



Sponsor White Label Space

White Label Space

I am Commercial Manager for White Label Space, one of the teams entering the Google Lunar X Prize. Space is cool. The next space race is well underway, and to be part of the next phase of exploration is as exciting as it is difficult. My generation has the means to explore the Solar System, and the next generation may actually start to visit the planets out there.
Visions, once the domain of science ficiton, are becoming reality.



Simon Drake Writer

Simon Drake - The Writer & Blog

My blog contains information about my fiction, non-fiction and science fiction paperbacks and ebooks, plus loads of humourous articles designed to attract attention.
As a writer, it's hard to write a blog: Books DO IT BETTER


Paperbacks and eBooks by Simon Drake...

The Art of Office War

The Art of Office War

Work in an office? Want to get ahead? Visit the website for some tactical advice!
Buy The Art of Office War, it may save your job one day!
The Art of Office War provides real solutions and answers without toning down its message for sensitive ears, and will tell you why things happens and what you can do about it.




The Bankers Who Sold the World

The Bankers Who Sold the World

At the peak of the financial crisis, a high-flying team of egotistical, ambitious, international bankers flying to a global emergency financial bailout meeting are visited by a duo of egotistical, ambitious, intergalactic alien bankers. The alien bankers, on behalf of an inter-galactic client, can see that earth’s looking very cheap at the moment, and they would like to buy in. But for all parties concerned, how do you value earth during a credit crunch, and what’s the bonus for doing so?




Generous Enemies – Australia at War with China and Indonesia

Generous Enemies

Indonesia has invaded Australia and China is coming to complete the task…
Generous Enemies tells the stories of leaders, assassins and pirates in a portrayal of Australia engulfed in overlapping regional conflicts forming part of World War Three.




Love Data Paperback

Love Data

Can technology replace love? In the not too distant future can we exist beyond the flesh, in data form, and experience emotions, friendship, simple satisfactions, sexual liasons and even jealousy?
Bill is an inventor with futuristic vices and ambitious experiments on his mind: To use technology to trial his version of creative artificial intelligence, and bring back a dead lover. He needs a breakthrough and he needs help. But the only aid he can find is from Casper, a wholesaler of clone androids to the sex-industry. Will technology think creatively, can it show love? More importantly, in the hands of Bill, does any experiment go to plan?




The Return of the Last Space Explorer

The Return of the Last Space Explorer

Adam is the Captain of a Space Explorer, he is a neo-human specifically designed for space travel, and is sent to seed life on a planet orbiting one of earth’s closest stars, Sirius. After a 99 year voyage he returns to earth, crash lands in Berlin, and is the sole survivor. Earth has changed and unexpectedly lurched backwards: He is imprisoned by the New Revolution, a hybrid Environmentalist and Communist Regime controlling much of Europe, who treat him, a survivor of the Golden Age of a century ago, as a cause of earth’s current Global Freezing.




10,000 BC – The First Geniuses

10,000 BC – The First Geniuses

For humanity the transformation from savagery into civilisation can only be led by heroes and geniuses, and new inventions, like the concept of zero, the first books and the use of metals, comes at a heavy price.
The tribes on the Peninsula are victims of cannibalism, plunder and genocide, from a marauding tribe of scavengers escaping the ravages of the mainland. To add to the hardship of the tribes on the Peninsula, the climate is changing, the game of the woods are few, and many predict a great hunger will come.




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Australian Book Sellers

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The Art of War Robot and Chatbot

AIML Chatbot: The Art of War Robot

The The Art of War was written 2,500 years ago and was part of the inspiration for my title The Art of Office War.
I converted The Art of War into a chatbot. Is this the shape of things to come?
Talk to my creation: The Art of War Robot.



Antique Maps of Australia

Simon Drake's Collection of Antique Maps of Australia

Yes, I am a budding collector of antique maps of Australia.
There's nothing like the hunt for the perfect map.
Visit my online gallery of Antique Maps of Australia.



The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides (484BC - 406BC)
All text and images Copyright 2011 Simon Drake