[2010]
11 February: My Stepping Stone Lost senryu was accepted for the August 2010 print edition of Scifaikuest. (Learn about Scifaikuest by clicking here.)

18 January: My Robota senryu was accepted for the July/August 2010 issue of STAR*LINE, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. (Learn about STAR*LINE by clicking here.)

18 January: STAR*LINE accepted my free verse poem, Skipping Stone (Last transmission from an alternative Apollo 13 crew), for the September/October 2010 issue.


[2009]
Ghosts of the Machines and Stellar Games may be read in the March/April 2009 (32.2) issue of STAR*LINE. See the issue's contents list by clicking here.

Definitions: scifaiku click here; senryu click here

Issue 32.2 cover image courtesy of STAR*LINE. Cover art ©2009 by Daniel Trout.

[2010]
30 July: Fads (or why Jerry loathes the aliens) is available exclusively on the website version of the 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures anthology. Read the story by clicking here.

Fads is a first-contact story set in Rochester, New York, in the year (you guessed it!) 2034, which is Rochester's bicentennial. The story focuses on the effect aliens and their technology have on the two main characters, Jerry and Mark, even though the aliens left Earth five years ago. I also muse upon the effect first contact has on the rest of civilization and the collective human psyche. I am extremely curious about what place Earth might occupy in a Galactic Commonwealth populated by races far older and more advanced than our own.

2034: Writing Rochester's Futures is the first print and online speculative fiction anthology from R-SPEC Press and R-SPEC.org. (Learn about R-SPEC.org and 2034 by clicking here.)

From the cover: "It's 2034 on the edge of the altered state of New York, by some of the wildest new voices and best writers in speculative fiction. Read it before you live it."

Cover image courtesy of R-SPEC Press. Cover art ©2009 by David Pascal.

[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'll 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 the Music of Tangerine Dream (published May 1990) remains out of print.

It is unlikely a second edition will be released. The reason is that Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, not to mention all the band alumni, have released far too many recordings in the intervening years for me to revise the guide.

Book and cover art ©1990 by Alan Vincent Michaels