The Summoner, an alien god seeking the formula for the soul, imprisons six representatives of humanity within a thought experiment. Omniscient enough to observe the history of our universe up to the Horizon of Now, but unable to see inside the mysteries of free will, he watches these humans struggle to understand their new reality. … More Schroedinger’s Cheshire Cats
The lie was his original sin and it split his soul, forcing its fragments to wander through a maze of ever more dangerous choices in the galactic Empire of the Foreverones. Escape from certain death as alien pirates tear the heart out of humanity’s fragile interplanetary civilization leaves him one of a handful of human … More Singularities Of The Soul Of Stephen Xi
Evolution slithers like a snake through the Gardens of Eden, urging life along by random changes to what becomes the past, but it needs accomplices among its victims. Those individuals touched by its fangs can fail to act and thus die away, or they can respond to the choices presented to them and struggle for … More Weeds Of Eden
In a universe nine generations removed from the world of the Fifth Prophet and the founding of the Family of Man, a Martian genealogist develops a series of ancestral portrait simulations. Although he is obsessed with the past, the ever changing future intrudes on his simple artistic life and brings him an epic poetess to … More Time Travelers Are Schizophrenic
This is the story of God returning to earth and choosing a scientist as his next prophet. As at any time in the history of the world, everyday events and global chaos intermingle. Why now? Is God angry enough to bring fire, and nuclear destruction? Is God choosing new believers and giving them a technological … More The Fifth Prophet
An army gathers on an old farm, like the Greeks on the plains of Troy. They are not there to bring Helen home. A god has built a prison out of ten thousand stars, and for the crime of believing that they could travel faster-than-light, their world has become the newest prisoner in this Cluster.The … More A Trojan Horse Inside A Paper Moon
Thou shalt not go supraluminal. When the spiritual and the physical universes collide, a cosmic mystery places humanity into a stellar prison where the inmates are dangerously nearby. Will mankind succumb to the same distractions as their alien predecessors; the struggle for survival, the quest for power, the fanaticism of faith, the random ravages of … More Perturbations Of The Reality Field
Dr. A. R. Davis has taught students from junior high through graduate school, worked in the real world briefly as an engineer, and published papers in computational geometry. He retired as a professor of computer science and mathematics when he decided to step beyond algorithms and logical proofs and into metaphysical science fiction. He has … More Dr. A.R. Davis
The forecast: Record cold. The crimes: Colder still. Case #1:Hardworking veterinary technician Jayvon Fletcher was honest, friendly, and without an enemy in the world. But two Christmas Eves ago, while covering the night shift, he vanished, leaving behind only a broken window and smears of blood on the clinic’s back steps. Neither police nor the … More Ice on the Bay
Four years ago, Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller’s wife Sandra died on a country road. The driver who rammed her car vanished without a trace, leaving police stunned and baffled. But it wasn’t murder, just a freak accident, and the statute of limitations has run out. Now a bungled robbery raises new questions. As Detective Sergeants … More True Death
