Two Lovely Space Stories Blue Golf Ball This is a children's story describing a girl, Julie, who took a walk with her Dad into a golf course on a winter day. Usually, she would find golf balls on the snow covered grounds, but the golf balls were white color. On this particular day, Julie not only found a number of white golf balls but she also discovered a blue golf ball. This blue golf ball was somewhat unusual having very interesting features: The blue ball is probably a golf ball because it has the usual pits on its surface. Strangely, there is a hole in the blue golf ball; the hole is small and too perfect. So it looks like a drilled hole not a hole caused by a bullet shot through it. The blue golf ball might be a training ball, since It was found on a golf course. The blue golf ball is slightly bigger than the regular white golf balls. The blue golf ball floats in the water and turns to orient itself as if either the ball has a magnet inside or the whole ball is made of magnetic material. That may explain why the ball always rolls to a stop with the hole upright. Julie's brother Jeff said the blue golf ball may be pointing to a different angle if it was brought to North Pole or South Pole. So they gave the blue golf ball a name - Magnet. Magnet probably has air inside that is why it floats in the water. Jeff did not feel any vibration from Magnet and thought it was Julie's imagination. But Julie felt and knew that Magnet was keeping her hand warm. Julie and Jeff treasured Magnet and put it as a decoration on their Christmas tree, a blue spruce ..... On Christmas eve, oh my God, strange things happened......, it turned out that Magnet was not a golf ball at all but an alien, a Spoonie, coming from Round City of Silver Spoon Galaxy, hundreds of million miles away from Earth..... Julie's amazing discovery....., her fantastic travel through space tunnel to visit Round City with Magnet......, their encounter with the mean Looties of the Colony of Golden Crown....... and how could Julie get back to her home on Earth ...... are the main parts of this space story. Outopians A misty Thanksgiving Eve brings a strange sighting to the television screen of the 4_J brothers' family room. It turns out that the sighting was observed by lots people in the sky and they reported to the authorities. The TV sighting really was really a reflection of the real sighting in their backyard. A midnight search turned up some exciting discoveries. The boys found some burned blue Spruce trees but Jerry was the one discovered the blue golf ball, later he nicknamed it as Zipper because of lots of images zipped through his brain since he discovered it. Zipper had amazing power as he and his brothers later found out. 4-J's midnight search with flashlight in the woods of their backyard brought the town police to their house. 4-J's father told police everything about their search and the police went away. The 4-J decided to keep the Zipper as a secret known only to them, but little they that there was a FBI investigation following the Thanksgiving night green-light sighting and they wanted their parents to be interrogated. The 4-J did not want to give up Zipper before they could understand where was Zipper from, why did Zipper understand so much earth things, how did they communicate with their language and their thoughts? The long Thanksgiving holiday week allowed them to interact with Zipper. They realized that Zipper was an alien with high intelligence from a superior civilization. He came to save the Earth from destruction
About the Author: Dr. Chang is a first generation American and a longtime New York State resident with a few years of excursion to Vermont, Texas, and Singapore in his life. Dr. Chang was born in Chungking City, educated in Taiwan, China and later immigrated to the U.S. He has earned a BSEE degree from Cheng Kung University and MSEE and a PhD from the University of Rhode Island. He is an alumnus of Fushaw and Fuzon, elementary and secondary schools. Dr Chang started his first dual job with IBM semiconductor chip development and as an assistant professor with Syracuse University at the same time and then became a scientist with varied interest at IBM TJ Watson Research Center over three decades; during which time he had taken several sabbaticals to help the Executive Yuan in Taiwan initiating an office automation program (early 70's), to teach at the University of Texas while conducting an exploratory workstation project at IBM Austin (mid 70's), to participate in the Singapore Computer Board's IT 2000 program launching and directing a research center named Institute of System Sciences (ISS) (mid 80's) and pioneering an application solutions institute (ASI) in IBM Research (early 90's) as well as to serve as a Professor at Polytechnic University, as Dean of its Westchester Graduate Center and Executive Director of Polytechnic Research Institute for Development and Entrepreneurship (PRIDE) developing Internet technologies and transferring applications to III and ITRI in Taiwan (late 90's) and stimulating entrepreneurship at Polytechnic University. His post IBM career continued on as an entrepreneur in Internet technology and applications inventions (21st century). In addition to his career and professional interest, Dr. Chang is a volunteer, serving on the Somers School Board and Northern Westchester and Putnam Teacher Center Policy Board, teaching at Northern Westchester Chinese School, offering after school word game and Mandarin classes in Somers School District, producing a public Access TV program as a hobby and writing newspaper columns and publishing books for children and adults.