Presentations and upcoming events
03 August 2021
R-SPEC Virtual Meeting
Myriad Worlds of Possibilities
(Read Your Work)
Meeting starts at 7pm ET
R-SPEC attendees are invited to share their “Collaborative/Solo Flash Fiction Workshop” story or poem, another current or in-progress work, or their writing roadblocks.
Please bring a short piece that’s fewer than 1,000 words, if you can, but no more than 2,000 words, if you can't break the scene. This will help give everyone sufficient reading time and attendees have time to provide their feedback.
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R-SPEC banner design: Alan Vincent Michaels
In the news
14 April 2021
I launched PARTICLE | WAVE PRESS to support my ebook and printed creative and non-fiction publications.
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Logo design: Alan Vincent Michaels
19 August 2019
Imagining Rochester in 2034 and beyond
Esther Arnold wrote this great Rochester Beacon article that highlights several recent accomplishments of the ROCHESTER SPECULATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION, and its support for Rochester-area speculative fiction writers and readers.
I also have some of my R-SPEC logo and artwork designs noted in the article, too.
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R-SPEC logo and banner design by Alan Vincent Michaels
Coming soon and new arrivals!
01 October 2021
The Last Science Fiction Story
We Eat
I will soon join the growing DARK MATTER MAGAZINE family of authors and poets!
➤ MY AUTHOR BIO IS HERE
DARK MATTER MAGAZINE will be publishing my new story, The Last Science Fiction Story, and a reprint of my speculative fiction poem, We Eat, in the upcoming special Halloween / October 2021 issue!
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The "Aethereal Engineer" anthologies
The AETHEREAL ENGINEER anthologies, hosted by Jason H. Abbott, provide writers an opportunity to create speculative microfiction stories or poems inspired by weekly Twitter #SciFanSat word prompts.
To date, I've had 17 microfiction stories and poems published, and I'm delighted to provide links to the anthologies below.
| # | Date | Title | Type | Anthology Link |
| 17 - | 25 July 2021 | "A cosmic memorial" | haiku | "MEMORIAL" |
| 16 - | 18 July 2021 | "The ride of your life!" | haiku | "FEW" |
| 15 - | 11 July 2021 | "Rest for the weary?" | haiku | "ARTIST" |
| 14 - | 04 July 2021 | Birth of a Starship | story | "UNCERTAIN" |
| 13 - | 27 June 2021 | "Rā" | story | "PARTNER" |
| 12 - | 13 June 2021 | "No survivors found" | haiku | "SURVIVOR" |
| 11 - | 06 June 2021 | "We rescued the moon" | haiku | "DISTRICT" |
| 10 - | 30 May 2021 | "call me old fashioned" | haiku | "DESIGN" |
| 09 - | 16 May 2021 | "The Loops" | story | "LOOP" |
| 08 - | 09 May 2021 | "I have a talent for escaping disasters" | story | "TALENT" |
| 07 - | 02 May 2021 | "Humanity's greed" | story | "SIMILARITY" |
| 06 - | 25 April 2021 | "In a world gone mad" | haiku triptych | "UNFAIR" |
| 05 - | 18 April 2021 | "Gravity is heaven's language" | story | "DANCE" |
| 04 - | 31 January 2021 | "Our wild race to Mars" | haiku | "COMFORT" |
| 03 - | 16 January 2021 | "I am your vessel" | haiku | "ARRANGE" |
| 02 - | 20 December 2020 | "fish tacos" | story | "IMAGINE" |
| 01 - | 18 October 2020 | "wander in wonder" | haiku | "CREEP" |
Recently published
28 December 2020
"foggy"
"swept"
"fragments" (speculative fiction)
"entanglements" (speculative fiction)
"becoming" (haiku)
"cautiously"
"jailbird"
"seafarer"
"hostage"
"glisten"
I am delighted to announce that ten (10!) of my Twitter @PoetryIn13 prompt short poems are included in the POETRY IN 13: VOLUME THREE anthology (print only) edited by Scott Christopher Beebe and available in paperback from Amazon.
Note: The words in bold are the titles and the prompt words that inspired the poems. Unless otherwise noted, the poems are not speculative fiction or haiku.
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Design by Scott Christopher Beebe; photos by Alan Vincent Michaels
Writing Contests
19 October 2019
Seeds
My speculative fiction poem, Seeds, won Third Place in the SFPA’s 2019 POETRY CONTEST “Dwarf Poem Category” (<= 10 lines).
SFPA'S blind-entry contest had three categories, 560 entries, and 10 finalists from around the world!
➤ READ THE POEM
Book, Story, and Poem Reviews
01 June 2020
Exogenesis: Hybrid Humans: A Scientific History of Extraterrestrial Genetic Manipulation
by Bruce R. Fenton and Daniella Fenton
The ebook released on 01 June 2020 on Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, and other platforms.
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Selected poems
Ode to Nikola Tesla
A poem in celebration of NIKOLA TESLA.
My "Brick for Nik," located on the grounds of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (Shoreham, New York), contains an engraved line from the poem's first stanza. (
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Always Faithful, Always Loyal
Nor Even the Small Fish
We Eat
Three, long-form prose poems included in the A FLASH OF DARK: VOLUME 3 anthology of speculative fiction and poetry from Scott W. Williams and Lulu.com. (28 August 2019)
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Design by Scott W. Williams
To the Stars! (A Hopeful Autobiography in Five Present-Tense Stanzas)
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Requiem Æternam
Skipping Stone (Last transmission from an alternative Apollo 13 crew)
STAR*LINE - September/December 2010 (#33.5/6) print/ebook editions
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STAR*LINE (33.5/6) cover image courtesy of STAR*LINE
Cover art ©2010 by Garret Dechellis
Stepping Stone Lost
SCIFAIKUEST - August 2010 (Vol. 8, No. 1) print edition
Scifaikuest (Vol. 8, No. 1) cover image courtesy of Sam's Dot Publishing
Cover art ©2010 by Denny Marshall
Here are some cool links ...
STAR*LINE home page ➤ LEARN MORE
scifaikuest guidelines page ➤ LEARN MORE
scifaiku ➤ LEARN MORE
senryu ➤ LEARN MORE
Selected short stories
We're Not Alone Anymore
Flash fiction included in the A FLASH OF DARK: VOLUME 3 anthology (28 August 2019).
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Love Lost
A 100-word, microfiction included on the THE FUTURE OF LITERARY FORMS: FLASH FICTION, HYPERFICTION, AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
Fads (or Why Jerry Loathes the Aliens)
My story in the 2034: WRITING ROCHESTER'S FUTURES anthology (31 July 2010 print, ebook, online editions) is available only online.
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Learn more about 2034: WRITING ROCHESTER'S FUTURES, the first speculative fiction anthology from
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Selected short bits & interesting pieces
Roppatucha Greenberg's CREATURES GIVE ADVICE series
My Twitter-submitted questions and Ms. Greenberg's responses and custom
doodles are included in this (currently) two-book series.
CREATURES GIVE ADVICE
Amazon Digital Services LLC (20 March 2019, Kindle, print paperback editions)
CREATURES GIVE ADVICE AGAIN (and it's warmer now)
Amazon Digital Services LLC (21 June 2019, Kindle, print paperback editions)
Treasures from the time vaults
1993
I've received numerous inquiries about my first publication in a major magazine. Although I have earlier works published in high school and college literary journals, few people will likely ever read them.
I won a content sponsored by Robert Silverberg and Kim Mohan that was published in the February 1993 issue of AMAZING STORIES. In Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column, you will find several of my time-traveling camera ideas that caught their attention and gave me my first 15 microseconds of science fiction fame.
Cover art ©1993 by Laura and John Lakey
1990
Thank you for the inquiries and the encouragement, but THE DREAM LIVES ON! THE UNOFFICIAL COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO MUSIC OF TANGERINE DREAM (01 May 1990) remains out of print.
I have no plans to update the content and release a new edition. Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, not to mention the band's numerous alumni, have released far too many recordings in the intervening years for me to successfuly revise the guide.
Book and cover art ©1990 by Alan Vincent Michaels
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