MICHAEL P. KUBE-McDOWELL

Michael P. Kube-McDowell has been called "the finest new writer of cosmic science fiction in twenty years" and his writing praised as "reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke at his best." After growing up in southern New Jersey, Kube-McDowell came to MSU as a National Merit Scholar and graduated in 1976. A prolific writer of both short stories and novels, Kube-McDowell has been featured in Analog, Asimov's Amazing, Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, and Fantasy and Science Fiction.

His first novel, Emprise (1985), launched the thousand year "Trigon Disunity" future history, and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His most acclaimed novel to date, The Quiet Pools (1990), was a Book-of-the-Month selection and nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. He is currently under contract to Bantam Spectra for two new novels.

Kube-McDowell was an instructor in MSU's internationally famous Clarion Science Fiction Workshop (http://www.msu.edu/~clarion/). Outside of science fiction, he is the author of more than 500 non-fiction and news articles on subjects ranging from space careers to "scientific creationism."

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To hear Michael Kube-McDowell read from his works, go to: http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/writers/fall00/111700.htm

For more information on Michael Kube-McDowell, please visit his web site: http://www.sff.net/people/K-Mac/default.htm

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