PUBLISHED WORKS
The Trial of Frankenstein
The reader sits in the jury box and is asked to examine the question: Should there be limits to scientific inquiry? Whether it is cloning, genetic research or crossing species to create new life, who decides whether we should go down this path? In a modern context, the author puts Shelly's Frankenstein on trial. But this is also a trial of Science itself.
Burning Issues
This book takes the reader on a philosophical quest with John, as he tries to answer questions about life, ethics, and Star Trek. In a conversation among friends, Sitting around the fire, John asks his companions what makes our decisions ethical or unethical and whether we need a first principle of ethics to help decide among competing choices. What begins as a simple question soon becomes the focus of this gathering of friends.
THE ARCHIVIST TRILOGY
The Series
The inspiration for this story comes from a book that ended where it should have begun: with a massive departure of colony ships just before the people on Earth destroyed their planet. Would the surviving colonists repeat the mistakes of Old Earth or could humans make a better world?
Book I: The Archivist
The colonists left in over a hundred ships before Earth was destroyed. The Colonial Administration sent them to different planets hoping that some part of humanity might survive.
The colonists on C63 build a world without individualism and without competition, where they work together sharing the harvest. Over the past thousand years, believing they are the last bastion of humanity, the Council has taken the necessary steps to preserve the community's values for the common good.
But a newly appointed Archivist discovers that at least one other colony survived. Sharing this knowledge, which has been hidden in the Archives for centuries, will allow those on C63 to reconnect with another branch of humanity. How will the Archivist navigate around the Council, and can the community's values survive the challenge of new ideas from outsiders?
Book II: Blackrock
The colonists on The Plots believe they are the last bastion of humanity. Determined to avoid the tribalism and competition that led to Earth’s collapse, they establish a communal society in which everyone shares the workload and benefits from their collective labor. But they can't ignore the message they received: “We are here."
The Council sends Drake and Kelsey in a small spacecraft to find the people transmitting the message. Ambassador Kelsey's mission is to reconnect her planet with what remains of the human race, while Drake, the pilot, seeks to start a new life away from the communal tyranny of The Plots, placing them on separate paths. Upon arrival on Blackrock, they discover a world built on trade among other surviving human colonies, where everything has a price. Gaining access to the intergalactic trading system would bring major technological advances to The Plots, but it threatens their agricultural society and the community values their ancestors worked to preserve. Facing off with the barons of Blackrock, Kelsey and Drake try to protect their Plots through negotiation and subterfuge.
Book III: Las Minas
After escaping from Blackrock and crash-landing on a planet far outside the normal trading routes, Kelsey spends years wishing she could return home to The Plots. When she learns that workers are being recruited for mining a new source of Lustar, she knows the barons have found her home world and is determined to return.
When Kelsey arrives, she discovers a world divided between her people and the outsiders who have come to strip away the planet's wealth, bringing with them modern technology and ideas of profit and competition. To preserve what is left of the community's values, the new leader of The Plots, Joale, isolates her people from the off-worlders and any who have been exposed to their ideas, including Kelsey. The Plots, shaped by the values of cooperation and sharing, turns its back on its own people in an effort to preserve the old ways. Seeking to find a place for herself in this changed world, Kelsey finds herself in conflict with the very people she came back to help.
A CAMPUS MYSTERY SERIES
Book 1: The Chimera Murder
Detective Doble and his partner, Ros Welston, share a love of puzzles. That may be why they make such a good team. But this is Ros's first murder investigation. The victim, Professor Emil Kjellbert, had been working on a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, and while some people were excited about his breakthrough, his methods raised concerns. The local pastor described the professor as playing God, and he encouraged his parishioners to take a stand against the evil in their town. But others in the campus community also stood to gain from his death. The number of suspects continues growing as Doble and Ros work to piece together the clues in the first of three campus murder mysteries.
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