Matthew Jarpe
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male
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
influences
Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Iggy Pop
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August 2008
about this author
I was born in St. Joseph, Michigan in 1966 but I grew up on a "farm" in Los Lunas, New Mexico. I use the scare quotes because we didn't actually raise much food, we just kept farm animals as pets. Well, we did eat the pigs and the chicken's eggs. I have a BS in Biology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, a well known party school in the Big Ten (where Big Ten refers to the ten biggest mining schools, of which there are actually only two, and they're not that big). I have a PhD in Biochemistry from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and I use that PhD on a daily basis as Associate Director of Biology at Surface Logix.
I wrote Radio Freefall when I was working on my postdoctoral fellowship in Denver. I ...more
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Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.61 — 23 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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RADIO FREEFALL, Chapter one (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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This is the first chapter of my novel, RADIO FREEFALL. I have two more chapters up at my web site, plus a lot more sample writing.
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gave Pirate Sun (Virga, Book 3) by Karl Schroeder bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Matthew made a comment on James's review of
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read and liked a piece of writing titled "The Great iPod Indie-Rock Challenge of 2008 -- a mid-year report."
by Jason Pettus
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voted on the book list Best science fiction books
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gave Out of Sight (Mass Market Paperback) by Elmore Leonard |
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gave Freaky Deaky (Mass Market Paperback) by Elmore Leonard |
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gave Farewell, My Lovely (Paperback) by Raymond Chandler |
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gave The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler |
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