THE OPERANT SAGA
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Volume 3: The Croesus Project is available 1 June 2026
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Volume 1: Die Reinheit
The Rise of the Operants
In the modern age a new human species is evolving. Across the world powerful psychics are being born. Fuelled by Nazi ideology, German psychics are weaponized and soon, the clandestine organisation, Die Reinheit – The Purity, is formed. These self-proclaimed operants must destroy their psychic enemies in order to establish a global Operant Reich.
Published by Robore Books
Volume 2: MI18
The Reign of the Operants
Under the protection of MI18, Britain stands as a bastion against Die Reinheit, the Aryan operants who terrorize Europe and threaten the world. During Operation Barbarossa, Die Reinheit death squads follow the Wehrmacht into Russia in order to exterminate the Slavic psychics. Survivors, aided by their British and American counterparts, embark on a guerrilla war along the Eastern Front and in the flames of Stalingrad, to save all free psychics from annihilation.
Published by Robore Books
Volume 3: The Croesus Project
The Fall of the Operants
Die Reinheit has captured Europe, but its enemies have escaped. Now begins a race to develop technology that will achieve psychic superiority and end the World War. When the operants discover the secret base of the Croesus Project, the ensuing battle sees the operant ascendancy broken, forcing Die Reinheit to retreat to its European bastion. There, in the rubble of Berlin, the operants rally and threaten to unleash a weapon that will end, not just the psychic Allies, but humanity itself.
To be published by Robore Books in 2026
James Patrick Kilford
James Patrick Kilford has been a musician, printer, clerk and labourer, but found a vocation in education, teaching English in inner-city schools in the UK and Ireland. An unashamed bibliophile, his passions include military history, classical history, British comics, science-fiction, soccer, philately and an unhealthy vinyl-addiction.
He has been a record-breaking rower, but these days open water swimming is his source of fitness, mindfulness and torture. An Englishman who has Irish parentage, he now lives with his wife in rural Ireland.
His first novel was published in 2008. Since then he has emigrated, recorded albums of original music, and worked on his vision of the Operant Saga. The multi-book series explores the evolution of psychic humanity, and the centuries of conflict humankind must endure in order to transcend the island-mind and achieve species operancy.
