Strange Attractors Author:Tom Henighan A Canadian missionary re-enacts Eden among the ghostly Tasaday; a harried "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 biblical tale of Tobit and the angel is brought to life again as a story of quest, of father-son devotion and of first love. In... more » other stories we are carried to a north in the grip of a new ice age, and toa future where women have forgotten men. When underlying patterns shift, the world becomes a "Zone of Strangeness" and ordinary persons and events become "Strange Attractors." In the tradition of Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Ray Bradbury, Tom Henighan explores the twilight realm where the tilt of reality toward chaos suggests a new kind of order.« less