Massimo Marino's Blog: The Ramblings and the Rumblings, page 19
June 4, 2014
Sentence Writing 101 – Decision and Conclusions
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
If this is your first stop, you’ve missed the Introduction, Decision, Excision, Precision, Concision, and Incision. Narrative is a different kind of prose. It’s not journalism, and it has to render rather than report. O Tempora, o Mores*, what is accepted today as good narrative prose is different from books and novels of the past. Flowery prose, pedantic descriptions, passive […]
June 3, 2014
Playing with words
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
New writers often think they can write something once and move on. In today’s world, hit the ‘publish’ button as soon as the first draft reaches “The End”. Experienced writers know that our work needs to be cut, added to, polished, reworked. Even the slightest change can add depth or give your readers more information. […]
June 2, 2014
Sentence Writing 101 – Incision
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
If this is your first stop, you’ve missed the Introduction, Decision, Excision, Precision, and Concision. Narrative is a different kind of prose. It’s not journalism, and it has to render rather than report. O Tempora, o Mores*, what is accepted today as good narrative prose is different from books and novels of the past. Flowery prose, pedantic descriptions, passive […]
June 1, 2014
The Drake Equation
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
What do we need to know about to discover life in space? How can we estimate the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars? While working as a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, Dr. Frank Drake conceived an approach to bound the terms involved […]
May 31, 2014
Diamond Peak series – YA fantasy
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
FOUR DOLLARS OFF Yep, you did hear right; it’s $4 off Lethal Inheritance, book one of the Diamond Peak series, is only 99c on Amazon and Kobo from the 30th of May to the 5th of June. Usually the book is priced at $4.99, but this is the first in a series of four books, […]
Cover Reveal – Beyond the Count – Vampire Stories Collection
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
Book Synopsis Long before Dracula, vampires stalked the literary scene. These early literary vampires are sometimes terrifying, at times melodramatic, and occasionally ridiculous, but they are always out for blood—and their vampiric descendants continue to fascinate and captivate us. Beyond the Count is a collection of vampire stories, plays, and poems from the eighteenth […]
Cover Reveal – Beyond the Count – Vampire Stories Collection
May 30, 2014
The Physics of Blaster Guns
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
In the future, the use of plasma lasers will allow to build small particle accelerators and for the same energies of today’s huge machines. That’s the promise of the laser-plasma accelerators which use lasers instead of high power electro-magnetic waves to give energy to electrons and can do it on a very small distances. Particles travel […]
May 29, 2014
Sentence Writing 101 – Concision
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
If this is your first stop, you’ve missed the Introduction, Decision, Excision, and Precision. Narrative is a different kind of prose. It’s not journalism, and it has to render rather than report. O Tempora, o Mores*, what is accepted today as good narrative prose is different from books and novels of the past. Flowery prose, pedantic descriptions, passive […]
May 28, 2014
Getting Personal … with Author A.R. Taylor
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
Today we have the pleasure to discuss with author A. R. Taylor. She has published in the Los Angeles Times, the Southwest Review, Pedantic Monthly, The Cynic online magazine, the Berkeley Insider, So It Goes, the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Magazine on Humor, Red Rock Review, and Rosebud, among others. L. A.’s New Short Fiction […]
May 27, 2014
Finalist of the Indie Excellence® Awards :: Wire Service Media
§ Author Massimo Marino - ... A scientist envisioning Science Fiction
DAIMONES – Vol.1 of The Daimones Trilogy by Massimo Marino – FINALIST of The National Indie Excellence Award in Science Fiction The National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA) was created to help establish self-publishing as a proud, legitimate, and strong facet of the publishing industry. NIEA is proud to be a champion of self-publishers and small & […]
Finalist of the Indie Excellence® Awards :: Wire Service Media
