“An Extraordinary Friendship” is a project encompassing the poetry, short stories, essays, letters, and music compositions of two very different but somehow kindred souls, David Rathbun and Mike Stone, who chanced to meet at a junior high school in Columbus Ohio and became the best of friends for

Bemused is Mike Stone's third book of poetry, covering the years from 2016 to 2017. The title means "perplexed" but Mike intended a more literal meaning: "in thrall to the Muse". Mike has been in the Muse's thrall for most of his seventy years. This collection shows his maturity as a writer and his

"Out of Time" is the fourth science fiction novel in the Rational Series. It takes off sometime after the end of "The Rats and the Saps" where Sapiens are at peace with Rationals and vacationing on each others' worlds. Tourism is complicated by the fact that Sapiens come from a 3-dimensional world

The complete set of novels from The Rational Series, including "Why Is Unit 142957 Sad? (or The Tin Man's Heart), "The Rats and the Saps", "Whirlpool", and Öut of Time". The first novel is about a love affair between a robot and the beautiful programmer who created it, in an epic spanning millions

This is the second book in The Rational Series. The local robot colony had received reports over the QEB that another human species had appeared near the colony in Draco, of all places. Both human species lived on Draco.763.3b, but in different sectors of the planet. The robots reported that there

The Uncollected Essays, Conjectures, and Whatnot of Mike Stone is compiled from his blog UncollectedWorks, covering the years from 2011 to 2016. Mike writes on philosophy, writing, religion, war, space and time, and politics, no holds barred, all fair (or unfair) game. For those of you who have

The Uncollected Works of Mike Stone is an uncollection of poetry and prose from university years prior to being drafted into the US Army, active duty in Europe, and return to normalcy. Then events took a turn into another dimension altogether. The uncollection includes moral dilemmas for the modern

Whirlpool is the third novel in the Rational Series. The first was about a robot civilization that rose from a single robot that had attained consciousness after being created by a team of human programmers and how love clashed with rationality. The second was about a new species of rational

This is the first book in The Rational Series. The story is about a robot who achieved consciousness at 3:34 pm and fell in love by 4:00 pm with Ellen, a brilliant and beautiful woman from the team that had programmed the robot. The story spans eons and worlds as the Tin Man tries to work out

Not so much a book of poetry and short stories as a book of visitations lovingly recorded for those who need to see