The Author

Ivan Ashcroft

Ivan Ashcroft is the literary voice of a French financial strategist combining over twenty years of international finance experience with fifteen years of Red Cross volunteering. A seasoned analyst of risk flows and power mechanisms, he has sharpened his critical eye through encounters revealing the naked truth of human fragility and the silent resilience of individuals — where dignity persists at the heart of chaos.

Curious and methodical, he marries financial rigour with a deeply humanist sensibility. Fascinated by the morality of impossible choices, he explores the psychological impact of algorithms on our lives.

Convinced that science fiction is above all a mirror held up to our contradictions, he invites each reader, behind the Ashcroft mask, to probe their own paradoxes — and transcend them.

"Feverish space opera, organic cyberpunk and moral thriller, The Last Oasis asks: can you choose your destiny when algorithms read souls?"