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This is a story of post-nuclear-war America in 2098. The country is in ruin. Three cities in the Sacramento Valley, with relatively intact infrastructure, are trying to survive in drastically different ways. One is organized by its AI quantum computer and its sophisticated robots. It automates everything for maximum efficiency and human beings are left with no role in their city’s welfare. That leads to problems - without jobs to keep them occupied, people get bored, restless and destructive. Omega 1500, their computer, has to temporarily lock them up to protect them from each other. Once...

A collection of 22 very short stories, each followed by a matching poem. The various stories offer a contour for human lives, involving joys and disappointments, expectations and frustrations, sadness and laughter. Just like life itself, the stories are varied, multi-faceted, and involving a large variety of emotions. From misguided neighbors and politics to existential questions and… naughty rats, there is enough humanity in Perambulations for any reader.

The final volume of the Valley Trilogy. The first volume "House Arrest - A Story of Liberation" described how survivors in the Sacramento Valley, after a nuclear war, start to rebuild their lives and defeat a tyrannical government in the town of Sacramento. The second volume "Rainbow Valley - A Story of Choices" continues the saga by describing how six towns in the valley organize their lives according to different economic principles choosing a social organization that works for them. Finally, this third volume: "Valley of Hope - A Story of Consequences" talks about how consequences of ...

A collection of short stories and a novella covering a large number of subjects, in various styles, ranging from serious to flippant. The stories in this book will introduce you to: - Visit from aliens with an unusual agenda - A Guardian Angel with a peculiar bent - A hightech trap catching an innocent - Obsessing with jealousy can backfire - A time travel villain becoming his own victim - An old man talking to his cat about danger - A driver fretting about safety - Mind before the creation - An unusual TV set saving humanity - A whole town locked down by robots - Secret meeting by star ...

As I am writing this memoir, in 2021, memories keep flooding into my mind, documenting my life leading from ignorance to confusion, to clarity. I am calling this memoir an intellectual autobiography because, what’s important to report on are not the actual events that happened, but the stages of mental development that transformed my idealistic and romantic self to the mindset of an old curmudgeon, with bone-cutting honesty and total lack of illusions.

This book has helped high school and college students to understand the science of physics, but it also helped intelligent adults to understand what scientists do and how science works. It describes the evolution of the science of Physics from the human perspective: biographical sketches, stories of discovery, fundamental principles, social significance. The book is a serious study, with lots of details but no math in the first two-thirds of the book. For advanced readers, the “Next Level” chapter points the way for further study, using advanced high-school mathematics. The required ...

The "Time Scope", is a Sci-Fi TV Set that can be tuned to any space and time coordinate and observe events, without sound, as they took place in the past. It has control buttons and dials for 'Power', 'Time', 'Space', 'Zoom', 'Speed', 'Scan' and 'Track'. It is used, among other things, by an American Senator to find out if his party's presidential nominee, a retired general is, in fact, a power-mad maniac with dictatorial ambitions. He wants to save his country from a rogue president who could cause immense harm to both the USA and the rest of the world. This is the smallest of their ...