Book 1
Author
Walt Edinger
Walt Edinger is a retired professor of philosophy. He taught medical ethics at the University of Toledo in both the clinical and classroom settings. After a career of asking students to defend their answers about right and wrong, he turned to science fiction for the answers.
The Series
The Archivist Trilogy
The inspiration for this story comes from a book that ended where it should have begun: with a massive departure of colony ships just before the people on Earth destroyed their planet. Would the surviving colonists repeat the mistakes of Old Earth or could humans make a better world?
Book 2
Blackrock
Paperback coming in October
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Book 3
Las Minas
Paperback coming in October
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Other Published Works
The Trial of Frankenstein
The reader sits in the jury box and is asked to examine the question: Should there be limits to scientific inquiry? Whether it is cloning, genetic research or crossing species to create new life, who decides whether we should go down this path? In a modern context, the author puts Shelley’s Frankenstein on trial. But this is also a trial of Science itself.
Burning Issues
This book takes the reader on a philosophical quest with John, as he tries to answer questions about life, ethics, and Star Trek. In a conversation among friends sitting around the fire, John asks his companions what makes our decisions ethical or unethical and whether we need a first principle of ethics to help decide among competing choices. What begins as a simple question soon becomes the focus of this gathering of friends.
Coming Soon · A Campus Mystery Series
Book 1: The Chimera Murder
Detective Doble and his partner, Ros Welston, share a love of puzzles. That may be why they make such a good team. But this is Ros's first murder investigation. The victim, Professor Emil Kjellbert, had been working on a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, and while some people were excited about his breakthrough, his methods raised concerns. The local pastor described the professor as playing God, and he encouraged his parishioners to take a stand against the evil in their town. But others in the campus community also stood to gain from his death. The number of suspects continues growing as Doble and Ros work to piece together the clues in the first of three campus murder mysteries.