Books
Rational idealism, Plato’s ideas, physics and early Christianity, plus three novels and 22 short stories.
Philosophy
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Conversations with Socrates
Conversations With Socrates is set in the Isles of the Blest, where shortly after his death Plato searches for Socrates to rediscuss the issues that inspired their intellectual endeavors on Earth. Along with an Orphic priest, a young mother and her son, Socrates and Plato discuss the nature of virtue, happiness, justice, the absolute, love, the soul, education and idealism.
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The Gospel According to Andrew
The Gospel According to Andrew is a retelling of the story of Jesus’s life, and the early years of the new faith, through the eyes of the apostle Andrew, who does not find Paul’s theological speculations persuasive.
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Rational Idealism
Rational Idealism presents a comprehensive philosophical theory that is both rational and beautiful, that reveals the common ground of realism and idealism, and that can explain the rational patterns in our emotions, desires and attitudes. From the unique theoretical arguments of Why God Can’t Exist to the practical advice of Intelligent Desiring, the sixteen essays explain our emotions, our pursuit of happiness, the purpose of life, why we think life should be just and why no one, not even God, can be omniscient.
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Even More Relativity
Even More Relativity is a philosophical essay on theoretical physics analyzing the fundamental concepts of mass, energy, the speed of light, the atom, space and time and proposing both a comprehensive revision of the basic principles of physics and alternative solutions to individual problems.
Fiction
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The Senior Partner
The Senior Partner is a legal thriller about four crucial months in the life of Stuart E. Craxton III, whose flirtation with greed leads to two kidnappings and increasingly excruciating demands on his stoicism as he attempts to prevent the destruction of his law firm, his family and his life.
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Bob and Charlie
Bob and Charlie is a humorous novel about two 50-year-old Manhattanite dreamers, one an energetic pessimist and the other an exhausted optimist, who pool their resources to build Captain Bob’s Casino (“Where Everyone is a Winner”) in Las Vegas.
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The Morning Light
The Morning Light is an idealistic, philosophical novel about a Roman Senator’s doomed stand against slavery in the 2nd century B.C. Senator Janus Luminius cautiously compromises in his pursuit of a Roman consulship so that he can enact his cherished reforms. But when Janus gambles everything to prevent the fantasies of an unscrupulous merchant from undermining Rome’s economy, he discovers those illusions are far more attractive to the Senate’s leadership than his own more civilized dreams.
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Mark Twain’s Visit to Heaven and Other Short Stories
Mark Twain’s Visit to Heaven And Other Short Stories is a collection of twenty-two short tragedies, comedies and parables, including two novellas (The God Desire and Christopher O’Connor’s Romances) and the title story (which imagines the iconoclastic Mark Twain’s visit to heaven).
