Daniel Marcus
Bio: Daniel Marcus has published over twenty short stories in national magazines and anthologies. He has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award and the Pushcart Prize, his non-fiction has appeared in Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere, and he has taught in the creative writing program at the U.C. Berkeley Extension. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley and has worked as an applied mathematician for the Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Currently, he is a software architect in Silicon Valley; among the technologies that interest him are speech recognition, digital interactive television, and digital rights management. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and son, and is currently working on a new novel.
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In these nineteen stories, Marcus maps out possible futures and theoretical pasts, crisscrossing reality with fantasy, and weaving intricate storylines in the process. His characters are frightened and fragile, facing brave new worlds whilst retaining their humanity. If you want to know what the future really looks like, then look here. (Published: 2008)
