Stephen Chensue is a physician-scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. His interests range from Buddhism to space travel, druidism to artificial intelligence, and shamanism to nanotechnology. He lives in the palm of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and writes because the ideas keep coming. He writes under the pseudonym, Chen Tzu, in honor of his Chinese great grandfather. His works include science fiction and fantasy novels, short stories, poetry, and books for young readers and children. The thematic interest of his fiction is the collision of the mystical-fantastic with the material-scientific. Ethnically, he is a collision of occidental and oriental. On his mother’s side his roots are in a long line of warriors of Scottish origin. On his father’s side his roots can be traced to Southern China. He publishes under the pseudonym Chen Tzu in remembrance of his great grandfather who emigrated from China to the Americas in the nineteenth century.