Bøger af Michael Baldwin

A chronological illustrated analysis of 58 years of the collective’s work.

A collection of nine one act flash plays and one short three-act play. All can be produced with one to four characters and little or no scenery or props. Each play can be done in five to twenty minutes. These flash plays all involve science-fiction or supernatural themes that comment on current social issues in society. Vampires, werewolves, angels, talking animals, and aliens abound. But these are not horror stories, they use strange characters to challenge current ideas and beliefs. These are plays for people who enjoy using their brains.

First published in 1959, Poetry without Tears is a book not about what poetry is. The author argues that this book is not concerned with the educational resurrection of a dead art but about the artistic resurrection of education.

Join Missy McKean, beautiful teen music virtuoso who plays a haunted violin; Missy's genius jazz mentor, Tiger Blakely; a devious drug kingpin who wants Tiger very dead; Tiger's dog, Bix, a canine Einstein; a mysterious red-haired Indian from outer space; and a bevy of craven killers on a crazy cross country jazz road trip that can only end in death and disaster. You'll find Murder Music an exciting and stimulating read even if you know little about Jazz, Classical Music, or the metaphysical ideas explored in the novel. There's lots of action, romance, and interesting characters. If you like Katniss, you'll love Missy.

More Than Passing StrangeVolume 4 of the Passing Strange seriesVenture within to savor 12 new short stories of science-fiction, and alluring strangeness from the guru of wonder-weird, Michael Baldwin. Two aliens go almost unnoticed amid a cosplay fair. What mischief are they up to? So, a pig, a bear, and an alligator walk into a bar-no joke. Could a sinister cabal control the world thru time travel? Has the advance of human progress been slowed thru history by alien intervention? How can a paralyzed patient protect himself from a supernatural monster? What happens when a sperm whale is sent to the Moon via Mary Poppins umbrella? Can a spunky librarian and a talking rabbit save several universes? Can a Neanderthal child save humanity from itself? Are there sentient beings who live among us invisible because they move so rapidly? Will a time traveling criminal destroy civilization before a time cop can stop him from a ship poised at the rim of a whirlpool? Find out in More Than Passing Strange. Michael Baldwin is a 4th-generation Texan, science nerd, and self-professed descendent of the Lakota mystic warrior, Crazy Horse. He is the author of 4 volumes of award-winning poetry; a YA mystery-thriller, Murder Music; a children's scientific adventure book, Space Cat; a volume of humorous ranching stories, a book of short plays, and 3 previous volumes of science-fiction short stories in the Passing Strange series. Please visit Michael Baldwin's website: www.jmbaldwin.com and his Amazon author page: http: //bit.ly/AmazonBaldwin.

Words In Concert is an anthology of poems inspired by classical music. It contains 48 poems by 35 wonderful poets, including three Texas Poets Laureate and many other highly-acclaimed, award-winning poets from the U.S. and internationally. All profits from the sale of this anthology will benefit the musicians of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Passing Strange is a collection of 12 short stories. Most are Science-Fiction, a few are weird tales written to tantalize the imagination. Could we be living in a video game? What would you do if you found alien poop in your neighborhood park? What would you wish for if you were granted only one? What if an alien offered to solve our global warming crisis? Would you be willing to sell your soul? Would you go back in time to save the one you love? What kind of test would you use to identify an alien posing as human? These are a few of the questions pondered in Passing Strange.

Murder Music is a 276-page quirky mystery-thriller for anyone who enjoys mayhem, music, and romance. Missy McKean, a beautiful and rebellious teen violin virtuoso, and her jazz mentor, Tiger Blakely, are marked for death by an unknown demonic mastermind. Blakely and Missy go on a cross-country musical road trip to find out why they are being targeted. Blakely's wise-cracking, genius dog, Bix, will help them, as will the spirit of Missy's haunted violin. But what about the handsome, red-haired Indian from outer space? Is he Missy's love interest or maybe one of the killers? Why are the KKK, the Apollo space program, and the President's plane involved in the mystery? The suspense is spine-tingling; the action is intense; the romance is real; the mystery is, yes, mysterious! Join Missy and Blakely as they struggle to stay alive, solve the mystery, and play some great music between death and disaster. Murder Music is a story to quickly lose yourself within and you'll not want it to end. If you like Katniss, you'll love Missy McKean!

This extraordinary collection of poems was born from a lifelong fascination with man's spiritual nature as well as with several areas of scientific inquiry that led to an awareness of the entanglements that exist among science, philosophy, and spirit. Poet Michael Baldwin dares to ask "Who are we?" and "What is our purpose?" and "What about God?" The reader finds that the best answers come from the interweavings of knowledge and mysticism, science and metaphysics, empiricism and intuition. The great writings of philosophy and ancient wisdom are helpful, but their greatest value comes from the clues they provide toward finding the answers through our own spiritual and intellectual journey. (Includes ten full-color illustrations by California artist Andrew Ostrovsky.)