Stories at the Edge of Time

About the Book

A family on the last starship finds that stories themselves may very well save a dying world. In one of those stories, a man dies of radio while another finds a new lease on life in an ancient dingus. A phone that can be used to call a few minutes into the future leads to unexpected turmoil. An anthroid on trial for a murder may be the victim of a faulty linguistic circuit.

A retired astronaut who cannot get his footing, the last librarian on earth, tales of a future ghetto where surprise is still a possibility, and a mathematician whose brilliant insight continually slips his mind.

These are few of the themes to be found in this collection of mystery science fiction tales in the speculative tradition of the satires of Kurt Vonnegut and the ironies of Jorge Luis Borges from the author of A Small Box of Chaos and the award-winning An Interlude in Dreamland.

About the Author

Alan Robbins is the Janet Estabrook Rogers Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Kean University in New Jersey where he is also the director of The Design Center and teaches courses in visual communications.

Mr. Robbins is an award-winning writer, graphic artist, and teacher. He is the author of 18 other mystery, puzzle, and humor books and his cartoons, illustrations, and graphic designs have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Star-Ledger and many other publications and exhibitions.

His card, board, and computer games, and his mystery jigsaw puzzles, have thousands of fans worldwide.

All of his work can be seen at alanrobbins.com