Richard Meyer was born in 1952 in Sydney Australia. As a teenager,
Richard Meyer enjoyed writing short stories for his little sister,
Janet. He gained his Higher School Certificate at the Royal
Australian Naval College at Jervis bay on the New South Wales
south coast, where he served as a Cadet Midshipman. He later
transferred to the Army where he served for many years in the
Psychology Corps, until his discharge in 1977. It was during his
Army service, in 1971, that he married his first love, Dianne and
they have been inseparable ever since. She helps as his editor and
advisor. His two sons have grown up, married and left home. Upon
discharge from the Army, Richard joined the Public Service from
which he retired having served in a number of departments for
thirty-three years.
He is currently studying for a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in
writing at Southern Cross University, and, after writing part time
for some years, Richard now devotes his considerable energies full
time to his chosen art of writing.
Richard has also written several children's picture books,
short stories, and had two articles published in a magazine.
Inspired by the classics of Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and Jules
Verne, Richard plans to continue writing epic novels as well as
non-fiction stories.
He now lives on Queensland's Gold Coast.
THE SONS OF PLATO
One Small Step for a Man, One Giant Leap to
Save the Universe
 Author
Richard Meyer creates a fantastic journey with his latest Sci-Fi
adventure of a teenager's attempts to rescue his time-trapped
girlfriend from the clutches of a future arch nemesis. A brilliant
story reminiscent of the adventurous writings of Jules Verne,
Meyer puts a creative twist on modern-day issues, combines it with
wonderfully developed characters and turns it into an epic tale
that takes you on a thrilling voyage beyond space and time.
The brilliant yet immature Milton Hancock and his girlfriend,
Jane, become separated by centuries when hired hoodlums attempt to
steal his latest invention: a machine capable of transporting
objects through time.
Trapped in the future while Jane is caught in the past, Milton
finds himself captured and thrown into a detention center in the
lunar crater, Plato. With the help of his fellow inmate friends,
Milton must use his brilliance and untapped courage to make a
daring escape back in time to rescue his beloved Jane before the
arch villain Bertha can destroy their future. But in order to do
so, only one person will be able to follow her back in time and
destroy her…but the one who goes can never return.
Richard's book may be purchased from the following website:
http://www.eloquentbooks.com/SonsofPlato.html
Richard’s work includes:
Children’s books
Speedy the Tortoise - How he got his name
Synopsis:
Alonzo is the head tortoise because he can lift his head the
highest. He is quite arrogant and always keeps the beautiful
Miranda close to him. Humphrey is the smallest tortoise and he
loves Miranda but is too shy to say anything. He doesn't know that
Miranda likes him.
When Igor the eagle kidnaps Miranda, and takes her to his nest,
Alonzo and the other tortoises are too scared to do anything. They
pull their heads into their shells. Only Humphrey makes his way up
to the top of the mountain to rescue Miranda.
Cecil the Adventurous Turtle
Synopsis:
Cecil is a baby giant turtle who won’t listen or do as he is
told. Being adventurous, he gives in to his curiosity and gets
lost and encounters many adventures trying to find his way home.
The Secret Journey
Synopsis:
This is the story of a nine year old, a young person who is the
only one to believe the stories told by a strange woman who owns
the local shop. These stories tell of fairies living deep in the
woods. The only solution is a secret journey into the magical
forest to find out if the fairies are really there.
Are there really fairies in the woods? We find out at the end
of the secret journey into the realms of magic and imagination.
Elysium
When the straying Zeus kidnaps his wife, Alexander goes down
into the underworld to get her back. He crosses the four rivers,
battles various creatures and raises an army of lost souls to
confront the king of the Gods.
Synopsis:
When Alexander’s wife suffers a mysterious illness, he
witnesses Thanatos, the God of Death, taking her. Unable to stop
him, he determines that he will follow them to the underworld to
get her back. Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, helps him, and
lends him his flying shoes and the helmet of invisibility.
Accompanied by a young nurse, Cassie, he travels to Naples,
finds the Cumaean Sybil and enters the underworld with the help of
a resurrected Echo and Narcissus.
He finds millions of lost souls on the shores of the first
river. They are the ones who were not buried with a coin on their
eyelids and thus cannot pay the boatman. Alexander asks the
boatman if he would take them across but he refuses unless
Alexander can get them across the first river which is swollen
with their tears.
Alexander then encounters many adventures and finally steals
the box from Pandora. He returns to the river and releases hope
onto the lost souls. They cease their weeping and the river dries
out. The souls then flock across the river in their millions.
Alexander has his army.
The story culminates in a final battle with the King of the
Gods.
Richard can be contacted through his email:richardmeyer20@hotmail.com
Richard's contributions to the Carindale Writers' Group workshops
include:
The Road
to Camp
The Road to Terrorism
Remember Them
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