Summer of Love, a Time Travel (55 page)

Mason’s
thriller,
SHAKEN
,
an ebook adaptation of “Deus Ex Machina”
published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
, republished in
Transcendental
Tales
(Donning Press), and translated and republished in Europe and South
America, is on
Nook
and on
Kindle
.

Emma
“J” for Joy Pearce is at her editorial offices on the twenty-second floor of
Three Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco when the long-dreaded next Great
Earthquake devastates the Bay area. Amid horrific destruction, she rescues a
man trapped in the rubble. In the heat of survival, she swiftly bonds with him,
causing her to question her possible marriage to her long-time boyfriend.

But
Jason Gibb is not the charming photojournalist he pretends to be. As Emma
discovers his true identity, his mission in the city, and the dark secrets
behind the catastrophe, she finds the choices she makes may mean the difference
between her own life or death.

A
List of Sources follows this short novel.

The
Story That Sold To The Movies.
TOMORROW’S CHILD
began as a medical
documentary, then got published in
Omni Magazine
, and finally sold to
Universal
Pictures
, where the project is in development. On
Nook
and on
Kindle
.

A
high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to
critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life.

The
ebook includes Lisa Mason’s blog,
The Story Behind The Story That Sold To
The Movies
, describing the twists and turns this story took over the years.

HUMMERS
was published in
Isaac Asimov’s Science
Fiction Magazine
, chosen for
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 5
^th
Annual Collection
(St. Martin’s Press), and nominated for the
Nebula
Award.

On
Nook
and on
Kindle
for 99 cents.

Laurel,
in the terminal stages of cancer, is obsessed with the Egyptian Book of the
Dead. Jerry, her homecare nurse whose lover is dying of AIDS, gives her a
surprising gift. A hummingbird feeder. As Laurel comes to grips with her own
death, she learns powerful and redeeming lessons about Egyptian Magic from the
hummingbirds that visit her.

THE SIXTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF HYSTERIA
, published in the acclaimed
anthology,
Full Spectrum 5
(Bantam), which also included stories by Neal
Stephenson, Karen Joy Fowler, and Jonathan Lethem, is on
Nook
and
Kindle
.

The
year is 1941, and Hitler’s armies have swept across Europe. Nora, a budding
young Surrealist artist, has fled to Mexico with B.B., a much older and
acclaimed Surrealist playwright down on his luck. Hundreds of European artists
and writers have formed a colony in Mexico City, and Nora befriends Valencia, a
fellow Surrealist artist and refugee. Together the friends explore Jungian psychology
and the power of symbols in their Art. But Nora is plagued by an abusive
relationship with B.B. She embarks on a harrowing journey deep into her own
troubled psyche.

The
novelette was inspired by Mason’s favorite Surrealist artists, Leonora Carrington
and Remedios Varo. An Afterword describing Carrington and Varo’s lives and a
List of Sources are included in the ebook.

EVERY MYSTERY UNEXPLAINED
, published in
David Copperfield’s
Tales of the Impossible
(HarperPrism), an anthology that included stories
by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, and Kevin J. Anderson, is on
Nook
and
on
Kindle
.

The
year is 1895, and Danny Flint is a young man living in the shadow of his
father, a famous stage magician whose fortunes are fading. Danny is grieving
over his mother’s recent accidental death, for which he feels he is to blame.
He learns to reconcile himself with his grief and guilt and to assume his place
at center stage as a magician in his own right with the help of a mysterious
beautiful lady.

DAUGHTER OF THE TAO
, published in
Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn
(HarperPrism), that included stories by Charles de Lint, Karen Joy Fowler, Robert
Sheckley, and Ellen Kushner, is on
Nook
and
Kindle
.

Sing
Lin is a mooie jai, a girl sold into slavery at the age of five to a wealthy
merchant in Tangrenbu, the ghetto of her people in the new country across the
sea. One lucky day, while she is out shopping by herself, she meets another
mooie jai, Kwai Yin, a bossy, beautiful girl two years older. Kwai has a
secret. Before she was sold into slavery, she had a Teacher who taught her
about Tao Magic.

But
Sing watches Kwai succumb to the terrifying fate of all slave girls in
Tangrenbu.

Soon
Sing is destined to go to the same fate. But will her invocation of Tao Magic
save her?

For
something fast and fun,
U F uh-O, A SCI FI COMEDY
, Lisa Mason’s script
for a producer looking for the next “Galaxy Quest” or “Men in Black” that
evolved into a novella, is on
Nook
and
Kindle
.

Nikki
and Josh really want a child but have infertility issues. Gretchen and Mike
have the same problem. When Nikki meets Gretchen at the Happy Daze Family
Clinic in Pasadena, they discover that they share a love of music and have
asked for a donor with musical talent. Nine months later, they give birth to
very unusual babies and, seeking an answer to why the kids are so special, they
meet again at a pediatrician’s office. And the search is on: who—and what—is
Donor Number 333?

For
something different,
TESLA, A WORTHY OF HIS TIME, A SCREENPLAY
, which
was read by the producer of “Aliens” and “The Abyss” and is currently under
consideration at another L.A. producer, is on
Nook
and
Kindle
. A List of Sources is
included in the ebook.

Genius. Visionary. Madman.

Nikola Tesla (1856--1943) was the
pioneering genius who invented the AC electrical system that powers our world
to this day, as well as radio, remote control, the automobile speedometer,
X-ray photography, the AND logic gate that drives all our computer systems, and
countless other devices and precursors to devices such as cell phones,
television, and the Internet that we so effortlessly use today.

Strikingly handsome and
charismatic, fluent in half a dozen languages, mathematics savant and master
machinist, a reed-thin perfectionist who quoted poetry like a Victorian rapper,
Tesla became one of the most famous men of his day. Friend of tycoons like John
Jacob Astor and Stanford White and celebrities like Mark Twain and Sarah
Bernhardt.