Strange Attractors [Paperback]

"... eclectic, eccentric ... A Henighan tale is likely to enrich a reader’s sense of reality." - Globe and Mail -

"Henighan writes with wit, intensity and stylistic flair." - The Toronto Star -

"Henighan writes with wit, intensity and stylistic flair."

In the tradition of Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Ray Bradbury, Tom Henighan skillfully explores the twilight realm where the tilt of reality toward chaos suggests a new kind of order. Strange Attractors is made up of nine stories, often rooted in reality but with a dark, eerie element of the fantastic. Enter a world where: a Canadian missionary re-enacts Eden among the ghostly Tasaday; a son plots to kill his robotic mother; a child has a Christmas Eve visit from a talking rat and three rather unsatisfactory wise men; the Earth is gripped by a new ice age; and enter a future where women have forgotten men.

Tom Henighan is the author of the novel The Well of Time and the non-fiction work The Presumption of Culture. He finds time to teach mythology, science fiction and fantasy, as well as creative writing, at Carleton University.