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Born into a tough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, I learned powerful lessons about family, friendship and violence. My escape was fiction, and I spent many hours reading in the local library. My passion was technology and I went on to gain a BS in Chemical Engineering from NJIT. Not enough challenge. Always fascinated by new technologies, I was awarded a full fellowship at Columbia University and gained a MS in Nuclear Engineering. Although I designed submarine nuclear reactors for three years, I discovered that I enjoyed computer technologies more than reactor design, so I changed career direction and achieved a second MS; this one in Computer Science from RPI.

Fascinated by virtually all areas of software development, my expertise grew Born into a tough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, I learned powerful lessons about family, friendship and violence. My escape was fiction, and I spent many hours reading in the local library. My passion was technology and I went on to gain a BS in Chemical Engineering from NJIT. Not enough challenge. Always fascinated by new technologies, I was awarded a full fellowship at Columbia University and gained a MS in Nuclear Engineering. Although I designed submarine nuclear reactors for three years, I discovered that I enjoyed computer technologies more than reactor design, so I changed career direction and achieved a second MS; this one in Computer Science from RPI.

Fascinated by virtually all areas of software development, my expertise grew to include development, design, project management, quality improvement and finally, general management. My niche was software consulting and my team assisted many large corporations and governmental organizations. Always looking for the latest challenge, I built and managed several consulting practices. I'm especially proud of two accomplishments – assisting AT&T greatly improve the quality of the first commercial UNIX release and helping Microsoft to create a world class consulting organization. Positions held during my consulting years included Senior Principal with an international accounting/consulting firm, President, Software Technology Management Inc. and General Manager with Microsoft.

Several years ago I decided to leave consulting and concentrate on a long held desire to write fiction. A successful engineer and businessman, I had the breath of experience to understand and synthesize rapidly evolving strands of technology. It became clear that fundamental change would turn our society upside down within the next few decades. Humans will have to adapt rapidly to gain the advantages of these changing social and technological innovations. Indeed, we will have to adapt rapidly just to survive.

I scoped out a trilogy of novels to expose three oncoming challenges; computer viruses enhanced with artificial intelligence (set in 2012), the oncoming clash between religion and technology concerning what it means to be human (2022), and the beginnings of the integration of human and artificial intelligence into a network entity (2031). Each novel is written as a thriller – packed with adventure, sex, greed and romance – as well as realistic science and technology. The three leading characters – Dianne Morgan, a female mega-billionaire obsessed with power; Ray Brown, her onetime lover and a brilliant software architect; and David Brown, Ray’s genetically gifted son – are fascinating and all too human.

PeaceMaker, my first novel, was released in August, 2004 with outstanding feedback by critics, authors, and most importantly, by customers. As one critic wrote, " If you enjoy techno-thrillers, you’re going to enjoy Peacemaker." If you prefer reading on-line, PeaceMaker has been posted to my website as a free serial novel.

My second novel, Unholy Domain, was released the spring of 2008 by Kunati Publishing. The response was excellent, and several reviewers compared my writing to that of Philip K. Dick. That might be a stretch, but I'm not complaining.

My third novel, 2031: The Singularity Pogrom, was released at the end of August, 2010. ...more

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Jan 01, 2008 03:56PM

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“Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties.

Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, which will guide your actions and thoughts. It’s a top down way of thinking; start with the big picture and derive rules for living. Fundamental knowledge is static. Even the derived rules rarely change.

Technos work from the bottom up. They build a baseline of observations and formulate theories to explain these phenomena. Nothing is sacred; with new observations, theories are discarded or modified to fit the facts.

Technos and clerics; how could they not be in conflict?
Dan Ronco’s Diary, 2016
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― Dan Ronco, Unholy Domain

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message 17: by Milton

Mar 23, 2011 12:54AM

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message 16: by Lisa

Jan 01, 2011 10:38PM

Hi Dan -

Happy New Year!!!

Thanks for your friendship! :)

My novel, Moonlight, is a finalist in Kensington Publishing's Writing with the Stars contest, but we need your vote to make it to the next round of competition...

Will you please click below and Vote for Moonlight?

Thanks for your support!!! :)

Lisa

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message 15: by Donald

Dec 30, 2010 02:32PM

Thanks for the friend invitation. I'd be honored if you'd check out my free ebooks at http://donaldJamesParker.com
Happy New Year!
Donald

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message 14: by Jesse

Nov 21, 2010 04:57PM

Thanks much for including me among your friends, Dan. jesse

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message 13: by Jeannie

Nov 04, 2008 07:12AM

Hi Dan and thanks for the add! What a fascinating bio you have! I wish you a bountiful Thanksgiving.
Smiles,
Jeannie

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message 12: by Dorlana

Aug 20, 2008 11:04AM

Hi Dan!
Thanks for adding me to your list of friends. Have a great afternoon.

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message 11: by Ilyn

Jul 22, 2008 02:28PM

Hi Dan,

Thank you for being my friend. I wish you good fortune on your endeavors, especially Unholy Domain.

Best wishes,

Ilyn

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message 10: by Karen

Apr 08, 2008 08:53PM

Hi Dan,

Just checked out your trailer here on Goodreads. It is so amazing! Hope your book is flying off the shelves!

Cheers,

Karen

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message 9: by SassyMama

Feb 22, 2008 04:33PM

Dan...Thanks for the invite into your circle of friends....wishing you all the best in 2008...looking forward to sharing chats, reviews and any/all book recommendations you may have...Happy Reading :-)

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message 8: by Jeremy

Jan 24, 2008 01:13AM

I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

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message 7: by Jeremy

Jan 01, 2008 02:17PM

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

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message 6: by Jeremy

Dec 24, 2007 12:06AM

Hi Dan!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

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message 5: by Daniel (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:59PM)

Nov 27, 2007 04:03PM

Dan, I added PeaceMaker and Unholy Domain to my to-read list.

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message 4: by J.R. (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:58PM)

Nov 26, 2007 03:39PM

Hi Dan,
Thanks for the request.

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message 3: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:55PM)

Nov 23, 2007 04:29PM

Hi Dan!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite book of all time?

Here’s wishing you a weekend filled with wacky whims, wonderful weirdness, and well-disposed werecats.

-Jeremy :)

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message 2: by Cheryl (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:25PM)

Oct 29, 2007 11:58AM

Hi:

I thought you might be interested in a contest. It’s wacky, creative and ‘killer’ fun. ‘Create a Corpse’ Contest lets you name a character in my suspense novel Divine Justice. Of course, you guessed it—the character dies

For contest details, just scroll over the following URL, copy and paste into your browser. This is a great contest for avid readers who’d like to be part of the process. I look forward to receiving your entries. :)

http://www.cherylktardif.com/contests/

~Cheryl Kaye Tardif,
bestselling author

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message 1: by Undra (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:23PM)

Oct 26, 2007 03:12PM

Tnx for adding me as a friend!

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