Latest releases!
01 October 2021
Read my SF story and my reprinted SF poem in the October 2021 Halloween Special Issue of DARK MATTER MAGAZINE!
The Last Science Fiction Story
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We Eat
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MY AUTHOR BIO IS HERE
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Upcoming presentations
07 December 2021
The R-SPEC Social
Virtual meeting starts at 7pm ET
Join me and the R-SPEC Team for our last meeting of 2021!
MEETING INFO MEETING FLYER
R-SPEC banner design by Alan Vincent Michaels
In the news
09 November 2021
I launched PARTICLE | WAVE PRESS in April 2021 to support my ebook and printed creative and non-fiction publications.
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Logo design by Alan Vincent Michaels
15 March 2021
On March 15, 2021, the SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY WRITERS OF AMERICA accepted my membership application. After all these years, I'm proud to be standing side by side with speculative fiction's literati.
Logo design by SFWA, Inc. (www.sfwa.org)
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.
Several of my R-SPEC logo and artwork designs are included in the article.
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R-SPEC logo and banner design by Alan Vincent Michaels
Online publications and anthologies
A Writer's Chronicle
The items published in the weekly A WRITER'S CHRONICLE are at the discretion of @Owen_G_Richards on Twitter. This is my first piece to be published on
The Writer's Chronicle.
| # | Date | Title | Type | Site Link |
| — 2021 — | ||||
| 01 | 28 November | "My lies matter not" | haiku | "HAIKU (#VSS365 #JOURNAL)" |
Hawk and Young #ScifaikuSaturday CompilationsThe HAWK AND YOUNG compilations, hosted by @HawkandYoung on Twitter (Eddie-Joe Young @EddieJoeYoung13 and Elsha Hawk @ElshaHawk), provide poets with an opportunity to create speculative fiction poetry inspired by weekly Twitter #ScifaikuSaturday word prompts.
To date, I've had 7 haiku published, including several haiku triptychs.
Great news! On November 29, I was invited to be the guest host for the December 2021 #ScifaikuSaturday prompts. I accepted the opportunity proudly.
| # | Date | Title | Type | Antho Link |
| — 2021 — | ||||
| 07 | 27 November | "We Are The Impulse" | haiku triptych | "IMPULSE" |
| See also Aethereal Engineer (11-28-2021) | ||||
| 06 | 27 November | "The impulse to fight" | haiku | "IMPULSE" |
| 05 | 21 November | "Not extravagant" | haiku | "DIGIT" |
| See also Aethereal Engineer (11-21-2021) | ||||
| 04 | 21 November | "The digits slide fast" | haiku | "DIGIT" |
| 03 | 14 November | "We dance in a trance" | haiku | "CLOUD" |
| 02 | 14 November | "Venusian clouds" | haiku | "CLOUD" |
| 01 | 06 November | "Can we land, yet?" - "Guess why we cannot." | haiku triptych | "APOGEE" |
Aethereal Engineer #SciFanSat Microfiction Compilations
The AETHEREAL ENGINEER compilations, hosted by Jason H. Abbott @SciFanSat, provide writers an opportunity to create speculative microfiction stories or poems inspired by weekly Twitter #SciFanSat word prompts.
To date, I've had 32 microfiction stories and poems published, including several haiku triptychs.
| # | Date | Title | Type | Antho Link |
| — 2021 — | ||||
| 32 | 28 November | "We Are The Impulse" | haiku triptych | "PLACE" |
| See also Hawk and Young (11-27-2021) | ||||
| 31 | 21 November | "Not extravagant" | haiku | "EXTRAVAGANT" |
| See also Hawk and Young (11-21-2021) | ||||
| 30 | 07 November | "To Be, or Not to Be?" - An Activation Question | story | "ACTIVE" |
| 29 | 31 October | "Alpha Terminal" | haiku triptych | "TERMINAL" |
| 28 | 24 October | "Warnings from the sky" | haiku | "COWER" |
| 27 | 17 October | Never Enough Time | haiku triptych | "GRIEF" |
| 26 | 10 October | "Once God's sole domain" | haiku | "MYSTERY" |
| 25 | 03 October | "My tail spike glows blue" | haiku | "WRITHE" |
| 24 | 26 September | "Our limited minds" | haiku | "LIMITED" |
| 23 | 19 September | "I come from exiles" | haiku triptych | "RELATIVE" |
| 22 | 05 September | "Eternal gods" | haiku | "ETERNAL" |
| 21 | 29 August | "We have learned nothing" | haiku | "BATTLE" |
| 20 | 22 August | "Surfing stellar waves" | haiku | "USE" |
| 19 | 15 August | "mindcasting" | haiku | "SERVICE" |
| 18 | 01 August | A Lasting Egocentricity | story | "COMPLETE" |
| 17 | 25 July | "A cosmic memorial" | haiku | "MEMORIAL" |
| 16 | 18 July | "The ride of your life!" | haiku | "FEW" |
| 15 | 11 July | "Rest for the weary?" | haiku | "ARTIST" |
| 14 | 04 July | Birth of a Starship | story | "UNCERTAIN" |
| 13 | 27 June | Rā | story | "PARTNER" |
| 12 | 13 June | "No survivors found" | haiku | "SURVIVOR" |
| 11 | 06 June | "We rescued the moon" | haiku | "DISTRICT" |
| 10 | 30 May | "call me old fashioned" | haiku | "DESIGN" |
| 09 | 16 May | The Loops | story | "LOOP" |
| 08 | 09 May | I Have a Talent for Escaping Disasters | story | "TALENT" |
| 07 | 02 May | Humanity's Greed | story | "SIMILARITY" |
| 06 | 25 April | "In a world gone mad" | haiku triptych | "UNFAIR" |
| 05 | 18 April | Gravity is Heaven's Language | story | "DANCE" |
| 04 | 31 January | "Our wild race to Mars" | haiku | "COMFORT" |
| 03 | 16 January | "I am your vessel" | haiku | "ARRANGE" |
| — 2020 — | ||||
| 02 | 20 December | Fish Tacos | story | "IMAGINE" |
| 01 | 18 October | "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 3 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" (fewer than 10 lines).
SFPA'S blind-entry contest had three categories, 560 entries, and 10 finalists from around the world!
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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)
The KANSAS Years (1992-1996)
I was the publisher, creative director, and partner of — Southwind Publishing — an international fan magazine, mail order product, and marketing company aligned with the progressive rock group, KANSAS.
I wrote the copy for the Freaks of Nature tour book (1995-1996) and co-wrote the KANSAS boxed set book (1994, Sony/Legacy Records). I also assisted with the graphic design of both books.
I co-wrote, designed, edited, and published six issues of The Closet Chronicle — the second KANSAS fan magazine.
Merchandising flyers and magazine design/cover art ©1992-1996 by Alan Vincent Michaels
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, book design, and cover art ©1990 by Alan Vincent Michaels
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