Klandor Enigma
About this ebook
We don't know what sex they are, if they have sexes, although it seems that they have children...
It's not that they refuse to answer so much as that we can't understand the answer. They say things like 'the offspring are not yet ripe for the sun'. Or, 'they are in the place of learning'. But you don't get the impression that this is referring to their equivalent of our schools.
This is an area our xeno experts hope to understand better in time.
They seem especially protective of our children, but they don't really seem to grasp what growing up means.. . Indeed it is very easy to see them as perpetual children. Except that they learn skills quickly, and indeed most of them can drive - and Indeed the Lennisvale yoltus community has been allocated six of the new hydrocars.
Suddenly 11 year old boys begin to die with no apparent cause of death - and it is always when the family yoltus is away for some reason. Were they suffocated by a cat? Was it some strange Klandor disease?
Some of the boys' fathers try to dig deeper into the enigma.
About the author
B Ward Powers has a string of degrees and qualifications and an even longer list of occupations and professions, covering everything from linguistics to theology, accountant to entrepreneur. But most of all he is a teacher and a researcher, a reader and a writer with a love of books – fiction and non-fiction. He has written over twenty books.
Marti Ward is a multi-award-winning author, teacher, researcher and entrepreneur known for his serial startups and his interdisciplinary work from the behavioural, cognitive, health and information sciences to environmental, biomedical and robotic engineering - but he writes under several variants of his name. Marti Ward is the pseudonym he uses for his fiction, which is intended to explore the implications and directions of current science and technology is taking, as well as to inspire a new generation of explores in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathmatics (STEM).
Marti hasn't been into space yet, but has travelled extensively on this planet - living in half a dozen countries and speaking and reading a variety of languages with varying degrees of fluency. He hasn't yet built an AI as sophisticated as Al - but is working on it. He has around 300 publications relating to AI, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics and Robotics, including several non-fiction books under his own name.
Marti was brought up reading a wide range of books, fiction and non-fiction - exploring Encyclopaedia Britannica at the age of four when his parents wouldn't answer his persistent "How?" and "Why?" questions. His first fantasy story, Ghostie was published in print and audio form when he was seven years old - being used in teacher training.
Marti particularly enjoyed the Robot stories of Isaac Asimov. Intelligent AIs from his childhood, Astroboy and HAL, featured in his PhD thesis - and these stories and characters might just get mentioned in his Paradisi writing too. But he really fell in love with Anne McCaffrey's PERN stories - so don't be surprised to see influences from that source either.
