a science fiction novel and social satire set in the near future when games involving competitive-relaxation make perfect sense.
Search for Charles Wehrenberg on You Tube where you will find several of his "Books-in-30-Seconds" and various segments of his "Floppy Philosophy Club."
Charles Wehrenberg was born in Saint Louis MO in 1944. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1965, then went to work for NASA where he developed robotic life detection techniques and interplanetary quarantine standards. Wehrenberg has been awarded several patents; he is particularly proud of the Round Bottom Volumetric patent which uses geometry to track the volume inside a closed system through the perception of gravity. After moving to San Francisco in 1967, he took to writing fiction and non-fiction, building fast motorcycles, collecting fine art, and surfing the Pacific. Widely traveled, he still calls San Francisco home.
A protean voice with a prescient social perspective, quirky humor, and a keen sense of technology, Charles Wehrenberg has written books of prose and poetry as well as magazine articles and catalog essays.
Wildly inventive, in the early 1970s Wehrenberg produced "Deep Relaxation" (to self-control smoking and overeating). Unheard of at the time, Wehrenberg used infra-red thermography to demonstrate the physical effects of this non-invasive therapy. Around the same time Wehrenberg also developed "Will Ball" employing bio-feedback to follow the gambit of "competitive relaxation." The "Will Ball" games gave rise to his novel of the same name. In the 1980s Wehrenberg developed the "TV Kaleidoscope" with its quantized effects which are seen everywhere today. In the early 1990s he developed and published concepts for inter-active novels which employed electronic readers and text-to-speech tools, culminating with his first (and perhaps THE first) browser book in 1997. Wehrenberg described "Virtual Charlie ©1997" as a "persona-on-a-disc," foreshadowing the Facebook impetus of today. The innovative mark up programming employed by Wehrenberg to create "Virtual Charlie" is now the standard used on Kindle readers.
