"What if?......." that's the question these stories ask; What if a skinny, seventeen- year old kid shows up in the Silicon Valley with what he claims is, "the first self-generating Power Supply in the world." What if this is the answer to providing unlimited energy to everyone, anywhere or is The Kid's Black Box just a hoax? That's what the Technology Consultant, The VP of a Multi-National Power Supply Company and of course, the Venture Capitalists want to know in this simple, suspenseful story, set in the heart of the Silicon Valley. What if someone is being conned? Who would it be, and why? "The Kid, The Cube and The Venture Capitalists" twists towards an answer. The second novelette, "Those Who from the Heavens Came" asks What If it finally happened........What if all the waiting and speculating finally comes to an end as an egg- shaped space craft actually lands on the White House Lawn? Who or what would emerge and why? What would our response be after all this time? Finally, "The Dreams of the Artifacts" asks "What if" ancient religious artifacts are discovered on Old Earth long after the Nuclear Wars and thousands of years since religions have been practiced? What if those artifacts still retain some of their original powers? What should be done with them? Racing to retain the artifacts, the Forensic Theologist, Dr. Anders Carlsen must out-maneuver his rivals, Dr. Asimov Dey and a larcenous Space Trader, Captain of a C-3 Transporter to the edge of Deep Space. Suspenseful, engaging and surprising, these "What Ifs" will captivate your imagination and challenge your reasoning....what if they can't be figured out in time?
About the Author: At 72, the Author is a formerly Ordained Lutheran Minister, who served Lutheran Churches in Liberia, West Africa; Santiago, Chile South America, as well as San Jose, and Oakland, California. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma Washington and a Master of Divinity Degree from The Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. He spent nearly twenty years living and working in the Silicon Valley and has considerable experience working with Start-Ups, representing them and their technologies to Venture Capitalists. Retired, he currently writes, supply preaches (he is the Pastor of The House Church, "The Church for the Rest of Us") and plays chess in Lake County, Northern California. The Author lives in Clearlake with his wife, Pam, their three cats and three dogs. Other books by this Author are available in e-form on Kindle and in Paperback at Amazon Books, include: A Clutch of Snakes The Problem with Pickles, Time-Travel and All That Other Stuff Devotions, Meditations and Other Meanderings