About
I'm a member of the Writer's Center (Bethesda, MD) and publish literary fiction, science fiction, mainstream fiction, essays and literary criticism. I read fiction and non-fiction for a literary magazine. I'm also a lifelong amateur radio operator, station callsign W2CDO.
I retired from the National Institutes of Health in 2012 after 33 years in the federal government and then I retired again, this time from SAFE-BioPharma Association, in 2018. I've lived and worked in the DC Metro Area since 1978.
I've been writing stuff for a long, long time
I began writing science fiction in Mrs. Rosenthal's 5th grade class with weekly illustrated episodes of "Roger Robot and Squeaky Mouse." Somehow that led me to Joseph Conrad, William Golding, Walker Percy and the poetry of William Blake. And Chip Delany, Robert Silverberg, Ursula Le Guin and Harlan Ellison. There's a connection there...
Bibliography
Fiction
- "Mrs. Marshall Manages" in The Hyacinth Review, Aug. 28, 2023
- "Lifelines" in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, TBA 2023
- "The Oracle" on Hidden Peak Press, TBA 2023
- "ICUCMe" on The Ekphrastic Review, February 2023
- "Reckonings" on jewishfiction.net, Issue 32, December 2022
- "Man's Best Friend" in Alien Dimensions #23, November 2022
- "Aunt Elizabeth's Time" in The Fieldstone Review #14, September 2022
- "Friend of Pig" in Hidden Peak Review, Volume I, October 2022,
- "The Book of Father Dominic," in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, April 2021
- "The Faber House," in The Bombay Review #33, August 2020
- "They're Playing Our Song," and "Perfect Time for Morning Coffee" in Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine #12
- “Detroit Iron” in Antietam Review, Spring 1988
- “Transcendental Functions” in Green Mountains Review, 1986
- “Scenicruiser and the Silver Lady” in Twilight Zone Magazine, June, 1981 reprinted in Night Cry, Summer 1985
- “The General’s Picnic” in Gallery, August 1981
- “Binding Energy” in New Dimensions Science Fiction 9 (a 1974 Nebula First Round Nominee)
Literary Criticism
- “Aliens in Golding's The Inheritors,” Science-Fiction Studies, 5 (March 1978): 3-10.
- “The Surreal Translations of Samuel R. Delany,” Science-Fiction Studies, 4 (March 1977): 25-34.
- “Ursula K. Le Guin: Damsel with a Dulcimer,” Ursula K. Le Guin, ed. Olander and Greenberg, Taplinger Publishing Co., 1979.
- “Samuel R. Delany,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 8: Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers Part I: A-L, Gale Research, 1981.
- “Neuron and Junction: Patterns of Thought in The Andromeda Strain,” The Mechanical God, Machines in Science Fiction, ed. Dunn and Erlich, Greenwood Press, 1982.
- “Four Voices in Robert Silverberg’s Dying Inside,” Critical Encounters II, Writers and Themes in Science Fiction, ed. Staicar, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1982.
Other
- A Study of Four Science Fiction Themes and Their Function in Two Contemporary Novels, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Denver, 1974
- “Introduction: Flash Forward to 2076,” 2076: The American Tricentennial, ed. Bryant, Pyramid Books, 1977
