About this website. This website offers a selection of the writings of brothers George A. Platz and Richard S. Platz, and will include novels, short stories, and nonfiction. (Please note: The writings on this web site are provided solely for personal reading by visitors to the site. They may be copied or downloaded for that purpose only. They may not be distributed to other persons, altered in any way, or used for any other purpose without the express written consent of the authors, who reserve all rights in such works.) Comments, questions and licensing inquiries are welcome. Send them to: Platz Brothers, P.O. Box 797, Blue Lake, CA 95525.

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About the Platz Brothers.

George A. Platz practiced law in Chicago from 1964 to 2002. He received his B.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1960 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1963, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is currently retired and spends most of his time at his farm near Three Oaks, Michigan.

Richard S. Platz has been practicing law in Humboldt County, California, since 1973. Rick received his B.A. degree in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1964. In 1967 he received his JD degree from the University of California at Berkeley, serving as an associate editor of the California Law Review. After practicing law in Berkeley and Oakland, Rick spent two years in Mexico, near Guadalajara. In 1977 he established his sole general practice in Blue Lake, a rural town in Northern California with a population of 1200, where he continues to represent clients. Besides writing, his interests include backpacking, garden railroading, and playing a little basketball.

Click on a title to read the Platz Brothers' works.

The Sugarwood Papers is a collection of George's essays on buying a farm and becoming an amateur surveyor, woodcutter, bridge builder, and maple syrup maker. It also includes a gallery of his wife Andrea's farm-related block prints.

Acquired Characteristics, formerly titled "Krakin," is George's short novel set in the Soviet Union of the early 1960s involving a Russian private investigator and his heretical scientist client, the KGB, a secret Soviet Army project, a purported American news correspondent and a visiting American publisher.

Hawk Island is George's novel set in a world dominated by a democratic government obsessed with equality and respect for human rights and indigenous cultures. The novel explores how that government deals with a military threat from outside its borders. (Note that this novel is archived in five pdf files (title and parts 1 to 4), which must be viewed with Acrobat Reader. A sixth jpg file contains a map that is very helpful in following the text.)

Backpacking with Susan is Rick's account of Susan's first backpacking trip. Susan, the daughter of George and Andrea, hiked with Rick and Barbara into Deadfall Lakes and Mount Eddie in September 2003. Stay tuned for more of Rick's exciting backpacking accounts on this website.

One fine day some twenty years ago, as the Platz Brothers were motoring serenely around the southern tip of Lake Michigan toward Sugarwood Farm, and apropos of nothing in particular, George posed the following question, "If time travel is possible, then why don't we encounter anyone from the future?" Timestop is Rick's response.

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