The nightmare of cardiologists performing PCI (stent implantation) is the eventual blockage of the stent, a process known as restenosis which can result in sudden death. My MI (heart attack) was in 2001. I discontinued taking statin medication in 2003, following 2 years of statin induced side effects, and the realization that the lipid hypothesis is totally unfounded. Routine testing (2006/2007) showed that the stent in my critical LAD artery (widow maker artery) is 100% blocked - full restenosis -Chronic Total Occlusion. However I lead a very full and active life. My changing lifestyle over...

Living with Restenosis is a 2-in-1 book including Surviving a Successful Heart Attack -and- Chronic Total Occlusion: After the Heart Attack, the Statins and Restenosis. They compliment each other; they convey the whole story. 'Surviving' covers the period of discovering that my first 50 years of personal dietary guidelines were based on mass-media advertising and bad science (lipid hypothesis). It ends after recuperating from both the physical heart attack and the statin-induced side effects; however, what next? Chronic Total Occlusion (previously published in 2007 as 'The Next 20,000'), is...

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 love's algorithm while attempting to survive its throes.

Russell Hamilton is having a hell of a time. His marriage is falling apart, his life-long affliction with sleeping sickness is getting worse, and even managing the simplest matters is pushing his psyche to the breaking point. If only he could go back to the beginning, back to the point where his life made sense, when happiness could be found in a simple ride on a motorbike. Back before the Lemon Man... Mike Stone, the author of the collections Fourtold and Memory Bones, presents this story of a man simply trying to make sense of a senseless situation, a man haunted by his own deeds and...

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 did not appear to be any kind of sexual commingling between the two groups. Wherever there was competition between them for scarce resources on that impoverished world the new species seemed to beat out the old. The robots called the new species rationals since that seemed to be their dominant...

They were the boom years in Portland, Oregon tennis history; the 1970s and 1980s. Future pro stars such as Tracy Austin and Boris Becker tasted success for the first time on Portland's tennis courts. A Davis Cup championship thrilled Portland's tennis fans. Prior to the boom years the City of Roses attracted the "exhibitions" featuring Suzanne Lenglen, Bill Tilden, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer and others with matches played on converted ice skating rinks or in livestock pavilions. World Team Tennis brought more tennis "stars" to the City.

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 read and followed Mike's poetry, sci-fi novels, and blog, this will be a particularly good read. Mike was born and raised in America but has lived over half his life in Israel. He is married with three sons and five grandchildren.

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 humanoids (Rats for Rationals) evolved from our human species (Saps for Sapiens) that had been resurrected by the robots in the first novel. The Saps, in their prejudice and hatred, waged war against the Rats and lost, just as the Neanderthals lost to the Homo Sapiens. I'm really excited about the third...