Angels from Rikenny

About the Book

Richard Dinsmore, the world’s most brilliant physicist, and a paranoid schizophrenic, believes that aliens, led by a beautiful humanoid female, Noraa, are coming from the planet Rikenny, fifteen light years away. Dinsmore claims to be a time traveler, who lived through the dystopian future that followed mankind’s accepting a gift from the Rikennians. Since no one believes Dinsmore’s tale, if he is correct, mankind seems destined to suffer the disasters described in “Report from the Future,” a handout distributed by Dinsmore to the students in his physics for premedical students class. Brian Brandenburg, a student in the class, doesn’t believe Dinsmore’s tale, but he has an idea of how Dinsmore’s warning—true or not—can be brought to the attention of a wider audience. Angels from Rikenny is a tragicomic science fiction tale written for science fiction fans as well as for people who don’t ordinarily read science fiction. It is a time travel tale written for those who enjoy time travel stories as well as for people who get headaches when faced with the paradoxes of time travel.

About the Author

Dr. Richard Stein is a Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where he has lived for over thirty five years. Dr. Stein lives with his wife, a psychologist, in a Frank Lloyd Wright style house in the Forest Hills section of Nashville. He is the author of three previously published novels, The Dana Twins and Related Matters and the Jonah Aaron-Elana Grey mysteries, No Cause for Shame and Reasonable Degree of Certainty.