Rick Brindle

  Sister Alex , my novel about post-apocalyptic survival in Berkshire, England, is free to download from Amazon for a limited time. Get your free copy now! Berkshire, England, and it’s no longer the promised land. Ever since a species-wide illness wiped out nearly every human being, the home counties have become a gender-based battlefield. The women stick together as a single, cohesive community, but only as long as you’re a woman. And it’s the same for the men, although they haven’t quite got the same group thing going, choosing instead to range as lone threats, taking what they want. Sometimes they team up and run in pairs, but only as long as you’re a man. They’re separate tribes, and they hate each other on sight. Pick your gender, pick your side. And then there’s Alex, born as a man, identifies as a woman, and thanks to a stash of scavenged hormones, she’s stuck somewhere between the two, lost in the middle and hated by them all. But she’s survived, and if what’s left of the w...

  Sister Alex , my novel about a trans woman surviving the apocalypse has just had its first review on  Goodreads .  Sister Alex Cold Steel on the Rocks   We Are Cold Steel   Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard   It's Not For Everyone

  It's a definite yes from me! For the first six weeks of my training I used the SLR, and once I moved to Catterick for Basic Gunner training, it was the SA80/LSW all the way. And even though I was left handed and was issued with the A1 version, I still loved it. It had a great balance, the sling was a work of genius, and it was loads shorter than your average rifle config. And bullpups also meant that there wasn’t any appreciable reduction in barrel length, which meant you still had good accuracy and muzzle velocity. Bullpups aren’t hugely new, with the British EM-2 almost making it to universal adoption just after WW2. After passing Basics and being posted to a squadron, I was issued an SLR once again for a couple of months, but despite all of the old school fanbois banging on about how the SLR could shoot an elephant stone dead (because you really do see lots of elephants on the battlefield), I was perfectly happy with my bullpup SA80 that no one else seemed to like. But bullpup...