DOCTOR ALIEN

"In this introspective, intelligent trio of tales from Vajra (Her Scales Shine Like Music), psychiatrist Alanso J. Morganson tests his skills and expertise as he treats various alien beings for an assortment of ailments. First, the Tsf, a species dedicated to trading, ask him to look into the odd cases of three unidentified beings rescued from damaged ships. Then he must deal both with human neighbors objecting to the location of his new clinic and with a mysterious gift from a grateful patient. Finally, Morganson is summoned off Earth as part of a mission that could affect the entire universe. With each novella building off the last to chronicle Morganson's experience with all things extraterrestrial, Vajra takes his everyman protagonist on a mind-boggling odyssey while keeping Morganson's views and attitudes down-to-earth. While Morganson's actual skills as a psychiatrist sometimes take a backseat to intuition, philosophy, and spirituality, his alien patients never fail to fascinate. Fans of old school SFF will enjoy these clever and entertaining adventures." (Publishers Weekly)

Rajnar Vajra is an American Science Fiction and Fantasy writer with a wide range of interests and education stretching from astrophysics to Zen. He has been a lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter in a professional original rock band; a sound designer and recording engineer; a high school music teacher; a guitar instructor in the Performing Arts Division at the University of Massachusetts; a craftsperson designing and creating jewelry; and involved in doctorate-level biochemistry research. He has been a Hugo finalist and his work has appeared in several anthologies including Visions of Tomorrow and Into The New Millennium, also magazines such as Absolute Magnitude and especially Analog where his writing has been frequently featured, including a full novel serialization.