Wil-Low Series #4: Mirror Point

ISBN: 9798190179446 — Available for purchase from November 15, 2026

Sometimes the greatest mystery lies beyond the stars.
Sometimes it is staring back at us from the mirror.

Stories: 95 pages
End notes: 36 pages
Total page count: 136 pages

What if the universe is a mirror? What if Earth is nothing more than a reality show watched from the stars? What if a single act of compassion changes an entire civilization?
In these thirteen science-fiction stories, Bruno Lowagie explores worlds where reality is never quite what it seems. Space explorers, time travelers, artificial intelligences, extraterrestrials, dream merchants, and ordinary people find themselves confronted with an unsettling question: What happens when you look at the same reality from a different point of view?

By turns thought-provoking, humorous, satirical, and hopeful, Mirror point is a collection of stories about first contact, identity, freedom, technology, and humanity's endless capacity for self-deception and self-discovery.

Table of Contents

• 1. Mirror Point ... 5
• 2. The Beast ... 19
• 3. Out of this World ... 22
• 4. Just As He Wanted ... 30
• 5. I’ll Worry about That Yesterday ... 32
• 6. Blackout ... 34
• 7. The Natural Child ... 49
• 8. That Crazy World Show ... 54
• 9. Deliver Us from Evil ... 59
• 10. Ants from Space ... 68
• 11. The Sand Awakens ... 75
• 12. The Pursuit of Happiness ... 88
• 13. Unicorn ... 98
• Background Information ... 101

Book Fragments

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• Fragment 1: The story 'A Natural Child' (original title: 'Het liefdeskind').
• Fragment 2: Some words about the author, the original versions of the stories, and a couple of sample end notes.

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End Notes: Illustrations

Note	Description and link to the source
1	Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, 1863
3	Point inversion in a two-dimensional plane
4	The plaque attached to Pioneer 10
4	he illustration on the Pioneer plaque
7	Area 51 declassified diagram, 1966
9	HAL 9000 Motivator
11	Official portrait of Ronald Reagan, 1981
12	Mikhail Gorbachev, 1985
13	Reagan and Gorbachev, November 19, 1985
15	Star map of constellation Ursa Major
16	Shiva and Parvati as Uma-Maheshvara, probably late 1000s to 1100s AD, buff sandstone
20	Official portrait of George H. W. Bush, 1989
20	esident Bush in Saudi Arabia, Thanksgiving 1990
21	Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, November 18, 1999
21	Bill Clinton breaks up laughing at a comment Boris Yeltsin during a press conference in Hyde Park, NY, on October 23, 1995.
22	Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers
23	Official portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush, 2003
23	US soldiers at the Hands of Victory monument in Baghdad, 2003
24	US President Barack Obama taking his Oath of Office, 2009
27	SpaceX Starship ignition during its launch, October 13, 2024
28	Planetary system of TOI-700 and its habitable zone
33	Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and the Vulcan Salute
35	1877 map of Mars by Giovanni Schiaparelli
35	1962 map of Mars published by the U.S. Aeronautical Chart and Information Center
38	Location of Aldebaran
39	The structure of the DNA double helix
42	Panspermia
45	Abraham Lincoln, 1863
47	Slide depicting John Wilkes Booth leaning forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln
48	Official portrait of U.S. President Jefferson, ca. 1800
49	The Declaration of Independence
50	First page of the Constitution of the United States

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