Marti Ward

Marti Ward is an Australian author born in 1957 in Sydney, writing science fiction and speculative adventure. Her Lost Missions series, also known as the Paradisi Chronicles, includes Casindra Lost and Moraturi Lost, following characters navigating dangerous lost-world settings. She has also written the Quantum Talents series and an educational tie-in title, Time for PsyQ, reflecting an interest in blending speculative fiction with accessible science concepts for younger or general readers. Ward's fiction favors adventure-driven plotting within compact speculative-fiction settings, favoring tightly contained casts and fast-moving discovery-and-escape plots over sprawling series worldbuilding. She has published five works across her two series to date.