Hale Mccaffley: 7 books

A seventy-five year-old man finds himself reliving his life. He embarks upon a career as a scientist but also wishes to be a writer. He attempts to improve his behavior in his second life but finds that it isn’t so easy. Recollections from his first life become ever fainter as his second life progresses....

The big bang, the formation of the earth, the origin of life on earth, the rise of complex organisms with evolution in full stride, the coming of Jesus and the end of human evolution, these are all topics covered in this essay. You can be interested in science, be a believer in evolution and still embrace...

Twenty four stories are told here, with most of them set in a future in which artificial intelligence has come to play a major role in human life. Several of the stories are about humanity’s encounters with extraterrestrial life. There are many different heroes and heroines in our futures. But really,...

For a brief period towards the end of the second world war, Heinz Linge was Hitler’s barber. He washes up in America with a few mementos of his life in Nazi Germany. He marries, has a family and settles down to a new life in his new country. His children are clever and compassionate, like him and his...

“Genius goes viral”. Our understanding of the human genome has dramatically changed over the past fifteen years. It turns out that we may be more than the sum of the genes we are born with. The contribution of viruses to our phenotype is explored as is its relation to genius. “And she told me what...

This is Westbury in England in the mid-nineteen eighties and it’s where, in a freak of nature, cells in the lung of a young man divided and produced embryos. What caused this developmental anomaly is unknown. Five of these embryos grew on to form fetuses. Now if Daniel Keyes had been, say, a carrot,...

Donald Plum and a business man he meets at the San Mateo Rotary Club – Bob Levy - decide to set up a company based on the creation and operation of a wormhole. We follow the company from its inception to its ultimate fate. Mainly because of the hiring of a charismatic, brilliant and world famous plant...