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Precocious Kid

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From: GUT 4.0 by Scooter A book of short strories about the microbiome The Precocious Kid and Biomee   I sat cross-legged on my mom’s ancient bean bag chair, covered with actual leather, cracked in about a million places. It was the perfect place for using my old Mac Air - way better than my phone for what I do. I always got home before Mom on any afternoon there wasn’t spring training. Today it was raining like crazy, so no practice. I was really glad because Thursdays are wind sprints day. Some of the more gung-ho on the team were running up and down the basketball court in the gym, but I “missed the message” about doing the gym. When Dad was dying a year ago from that mf-ing cancer, we talked about a lot of stuff toward the end. He told me over and over to never give up on things. “Lucas, stick with football. It makes a man of you,” he’d say. Mainly though he told me to “Stick with your interest in experimenting. You’ve got the mind to be a great scientist.” I re
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Mega-Fauna in Pursuit

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What Kind of Adventures Await In the Deep Past? Naked and Confused, But Running Like Heck  Imagine this guy at 40' in length (Hey, it's sci-fi) Daryl Streeter has been wandering around the prehistoric forest, looking up to find a smoldering spot where lightning has struck for a fire source.  No luck so far, and then..... An hour later the back of my neck and the top of my shoulders ached from looking up and felt on the verge of cramping. I actually ran into a tree, staring into the canopy. Dumb. For all that, no joy on the smoke hunt. I rubbed my neck and shoulders, did toe-touches and rolled my head around while fully bent over. I could still bend forward, legs stiff and damn near touch my knees with my nose. From that position, through my legs, I saw a truly large snake sliding out of an extra deep puddle, a pond basically, its eyes boring into mine from five meters away. Thoughts of smoke blew quickly out of my mind. Now I am not a ... what? snake-o-phobe?
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So How Did Daryl Get 110,000 Years into the Past?

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Try It Yourself; It's Easy Just hang out in a superconducting stator coil going chaotic. Our hero in MIZ, Daryl Streeter, hard working electrical engineer, is doing his job checking out a superconducting stator in Denison Dam, Lake Texoma, Texas. Here is a brief excerpt from his travel diary: ....I approved the first upgrade on this unit over a year ago, now here I was, field probes in hand, trying to figure out why the sucker made a very big millisecond surge, a fault I had never even heard of, much less had a clear idea on how to check. The stators were at full pump, about a mega amp. The rotors were still, the water from the surge tanks channeled out into the Red River. I could feel the rumble through my boots as I climbed back down into the core. I was surrounded by serious cooling tubes and lots and lots of hybrid metal loops, a typical superconducting stator core. Suddenly I saw something like mist rising from the crevices in the stator, a totally new exper
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Amazing Female #4

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Precursor to Amazing Female Marathoners, FLEET! * Since there are precious few  pictures  from the deep past, I've chosen this one of marathoner Linet  Masai, 2011 10K champ,  to give an idea of amazing female Fleet. She's the star of Book II. Another model in my mind for Fleet is my grandson Derrick. His persistence and individuality seeped into Fleet in my vision. Freebie AUDIOBOOK of MIZ,  Time  Tripping with Amazing Females . p.s. There are 16   amazing females in the book. pix credit
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Book II

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A Hop Further Back in Time At the end of Chapter 22 Daryl Streeter is almost comatose with grief after the death of an elderly  Amazing Female  Great American Lion at the hands of his fellow humans.  Cleverly, I called that chapter "My Fellow Men." Then the time travel button is pressed again (but only for author's POV; no actual people traveling) and the parallel plot cuts to the French Riviera 300 years earlier on.  Let's see, that would make it 108,300 BC.   There is much news these days about how much Neanderthal we have in our genomes and what the effect apparently is.  So what do you think humans would be like today if we were 50/50 "modern" human and Neanderthal? And Great Americans had not gone extinct!? Another Amazing Female named "Fleet" starts the experiment. AUDIOBOOK read by Olde Scooter hisself.  Best of all, free.
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First Reviews

Some Folks Seem to Enjoy MIZ Top customer reviews (on Amazon - only one relative in the mix) 5.0 out of 5 stars You will fall in love with telepathic  lion By Lisa R. Page on September 25, 2017 Format: Kindle Edition | Verified Purchase This is heart lifting fiction. A little Clan of the Cave Bear meets Diana, Herself with time travel thrown in. The  characters stand in for the goodness of our humanity. You will fall in love with telepathic, blue eyed lions and  the "religion of allies." This is a wonderful book that I could not put down. It left me happy and a better person for having visited this world. 5.0 out of 5 stars Loved the pace By Nurturing Nook on October 14, 2017 Format: Kindle Edition | Verified Purchase Loved the pace, journey and relations between this very curious characters. The texture and tone of the story is truly a pleasure to experience. 5.0 out of 5 stars Must read! By Caseman on June 26,
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AUDIOBOOK MIZ, Time Tripping with Amazing Females

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Prologue and Thirty-three Chapters Written, Produced and Read by Olde Scooter Give it a shot  HERE .  ...All together in sequence, a "playlist" concoction on YouTube. Click  HERE   for the whole enchilada (at least the first 33 chapters of the enchilada - of 38 total) You can either "Play All" and the book will roll out in proper order, or if you want to listen to a particular chapter, just click it, and it will play through the remaining chapters. (Since the recording is made as a YouTube video, the audiobook part is just the audio track. The visual is a vid place holder.  Try to ignore it. I can't help it if I look like an Airedale licking my thumb, I'm a conflagration, dammit! SUPPORT OLD GUY SCI-FI If you know a sci-fi fan or somebody looking for a free audio book, please refer them here, or "share" if it's no trouble.  Thanks a bunch!
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