Again Passing Strange is Volume 5 of the Passing Strange series.
Delight your taste for strangeness with these 11 stories of the wild, weird, and wonderful. Let your reality bend and descend into these mind-bending stories of plausible unreality, many based on known science.
Corona Chrono Tango combobulates the Coronavirus epidemic with our renewed interest in UFOs and the possibility of literal loops in spacetime.
Catastrophic is a humorous take on the serious subject of climate change from an alien perspective that's not really so alien after all.
Tennis Anyone? will be immediately attractive to tennis enthusiasts, but non-players will enjoy it as well. Tennis is the most international sport, why shouldn't it also become an intergalactic sport?
The Girl In the Grove is a fairy tale suggesting that fantasy is not so far removed from the quantum physics of hidden dimensions and time dilation.
I Feel Your Pain is a poem based in the neuroscience of schizophrenia. Careful, it may try to get its claws into you.
Elvis Is In The Building is a prose poem riffing on the science-fiction premise of time travel via antimatter. There may be just a tad of social commentary in there as well.
The Cane is an alien-contact story that will charm you and maybe give you a few shivers. If you like the ET alien, you will love this alien and its amazing cane.
Universal Love is based on a number of scientific facts and theories in astrophysics and biology. It asks the question, could two universes fall in love and merge?
Two new Zbub stories find that zany Lovecraftian leprechaun accidentally dabbling in national politics, then traveling back in time to give some help to Leonardo da Vinci.
Eschaton considers that the Biblical End Time might be brought on by human technology. Can the apocalypse be thwarted by two lovers holding the secret of human purpose?
The book includes 11 images that relate to the stories. So treat yourself to these strange unputdownable stories.
Autorentext
Michael Baldwin is a native of Fort Worth, Texas. He holds a BA in Political Science and Master's degrees in Library Science and Public Administration. Mike is now retired from a career as a library administrator and professor of American Government. He may be a descendent of the Lakota mystic warrior, Crazy Horse, and will be glad to elaborate over a couple of beers. In addition to writing in multiple genres, Mike provides seminars on creativity through neuroscience.
Baldwin has published two adventure novels: Murder Music and Neanderthal Gita. His lifelong interest in science caused him to publish four volumes of science-based science-fiction, the Passing Strange series. Also because of his interest in science, Mike published a children's science adventure book, Space Cat. Baldwin is also known for his award-winning poetry. He has published five books of poetry, three of which have won awards.