Selected poems ...
In celebration of Nikola Tesla's Birthday Expo at the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe on July 14, 2018, my Ode to Nikola Tesla poem is available here.
My poem To the Stars! (A Hopeful Autobiography in Five Present-Tense Stanzas) is available here.
Requiem Æternam and Skipping Stone (Last transmission from an alternative Apollo 13 crew) may be read in the September/December 2010 (#33.5/6) issue of STAR*LINE. See the contents list by clicking here.
Stepping Stone Lost may be read in the August 2010 (Vol. 8, No. 1) print edition of Scifaikuest.
STAR*LINE (33.5/6) cover image courtesy of STAR*LINE.
Cover art ©2010 by Garret Dechellis.
Scifaikuest (Vol. 8, No. 1) cover image courtesy of Sam's Dot Publishing.
Cover art ©2010 by Denny Marshall.
Here are a few cool links ...
STAR*LINE home page click here
Scifaikuest guidelines page click here
scifaiku click here
senryu click here
Selected short stories ...
Love Lost, a 100-word, microfiction story created for the
Fads (or Why Jerry Loathes the Aliens) is available exclusively on the online version of the 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures anthology, released on 31 July 2010. 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, although the aliens left Earth five years ago. I also muse upon the effect this first alien 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
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."
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'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 in 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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