michael_marano

My timeline of Virtual Reality (as a Science Fiction concept and as and a real technology) is up at the SciFi Channel:

http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/a-comprehensive-timeline.php

I'm currently revising my short story collection, STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS. The collection deals with the plagues that killed my friends in the 1980s... urban violence, rage, drugs... and AIDS. I've been talking to some younger people who have no idea what this _felt_ like. The terror, the despair, and the anger at polite society that didn't give a shit that people were dying....
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If anybody wants to find me on facebook, my URL is

http://www.facebook.com/michael.marano

Michael Marano to Preview "Shibboleth" from collection _Stories from the Plague Years_ at Boston's Grub Street.


Award-winning novelist, Public Radio commentator and cultural critic Michael Marano will be reading from his novelette "Shibboleth", an original work from his upcoming collection _Stories from the Plague Years_, this MONDAY, JUNE 8th, 8PM at Boston's Grub Street, Inc., a non-profit creative writing center located at 160 Boylston Street...
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My review of Angels and Demons is now live...


http://www.fearzone.com/blog/angels-demons

Hey...

Updates for my writing class at Boston's Grub Street are posted on my LJ:

http://mikemarano.livejournal.com/650.html

Here's an announcement for a new class on writing literary genre, to be held in the greater Boston area. Please forward this around to anyone who might be interested. Thanks!

--Mike


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WRITING THE SMART PAGE-TURNER:
A 10-Week class in Genre Writing at Boston's Grub Street



The Class:

Exciting plots and larger-than-life characters are the cornerstones of so-called "popular" or "genre" fiction, but in an...
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Hey! Just wanted to kick the tires on this blog thing. I have nothing really to say. I'm just seeing how this technology works. For those of you who might be interested, here's a few random bits about me. I'm a bitter old Punk who writes horror and science fiction. I work for the SciFi Channel in various capacities. You can check out some of...
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