The Fantastic Worlds of Alan Vincent Michaels - www.AlanMichaels.com - 'Moons Rising 2' ©Alan Vincent Michaels

Welcome to the fantastic worlds of Alan Vincent Michaels!

05 January 2012: It's a new year and there are many new worlds to voyage to and explore in my universe. I'll have new poetry and fiction releases to share in the coming weeks and months.

31 December 2011: I'm delighted to announce that Fads (or Why Jerry Loathes the Aliens) has had more than 1,000 unique reads at www.R-SPEC.org. Thank you for reading and for the great emails. It's much appreciated. Unfortunately, I do not have any zaps to sell ... at any price.

12 August 2011: My new autobiography, To the Stars! (A Hopeful Autobiography in Five Present Tense Verses), is available here.

My website is a work in progress. Please feel free to send me an email if you have questions, suggestions, or if you would like to comment on my fiction and poetry. I enjoy hearing from you.

Ad astra, my friends! —Alan

Latest poems

To the Stars! (A Hopeful Autobiography in Five Present Tense Verses)" (12 August 2011) is available here.

STAR*LINE 32.2: March/April 2009
Requiem Æternam and Skipping Stone (Last transmission from an alternative Apollo 13 crew) may be read in the September/December 2010 (#33.5/6) issue of STAR*LINE. See the contents list by clicking here.

Stepping Stone Lost may be read in the August 2010 (Vol. 8, No. 1) print edition of Scifaikuest.

Robota may be read in the July/August 2010 (#33.4) issue of STAR*LINE. See the contents list by clicking here.

STAR*LINE (33.5/6) cover image courtesy of STAR*LINE.
Cover art ©2010 by Garret Dechellis.

Scifaikuest Vol. 8, No. 1: August 2010 Scifaikuest (Vol. 8, No. 1) cover image courtesy of Sam's Dot Publishing.
Cover art ©2010 by Denny Marshall.

Here are a few cool links...
   STAR*LINE home page click here
   Scifaikuest home page click here
   scifaiku click here
   senryu click here

Latest short stories

Fads (or Why Jerry Loathes the Aliens) is available exclusively on the online version of the 2034: Writing Rochester's Futures anthology, released on 31 July 2010. Read the story by clicking here.

Fads is a first-contact story set in Rochester, New York, in the year (you guessed it!) 2034, which is Rochester's bicentennial. The story focuses on the effect aliens and their technology have on the two main characters, Jerry and Mark, even though the aliens left Earth five years ago. I also muse upon the effect first contact has on the rest of civilization and the collective human psyche. I am extremely curious about what place Earth might occupy in a Galactic Commonwealth populated by races far older and more advanced than our own.

2034: Writing Rochester's Futures is the first print and online speculative fiction anthology from R-SPEC Press and R-SPEC.org. Learn about R-SPEC.org and 2034 by clicking here.

From the cover: "It's 2034 on the edge of the altered state of New York, by some of the wildest new voices and best writers in speculative fiction. Read it before you live it."

Cover image courtesy of R-SPEC Press. Cover art ©2009 by David Pascal.

Treasures from the time vaults

Amazing Stories [1993]
I've received numerous inquiries about my first publication in a major magazine. Although I have earlier works published in high school and college literary journals, few people will likely ever read them.

I won a content sponsored by Robert Silverberg and Kim Mohan that was published in the February 1993 issue of Amazing Stories. In Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column, you'll find several of my time-traveling camera ideas that caught their attention and gave me my first 15 microseconds of science fiction fame.

Cover art ©1993 by Laura and John Lakey.

[1990]
Thank you for the inquiries and the encouragement, but The Dream Lives On! The Unofficial Collector's Guide to the Music of Tangerine Dream (published in May 1990) remains out of print.

I have no plans to update the content and release a new edition. Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, not to mention the band's alumni, have released far too many recordings in the intervening years for me to successfuly revise the guide. I am considering releasing a PDF version of the book for a nominal cost. Stay tuned!

Book and cover art ©1990 by Alan Vincent Michaels.

Several curious cases of mistaken identity!

My real name is Alan Vincent Michaels. (My middle name is the difference!) Although I am strangely flattered by the emails I've received, I am NOT the 'Alan Michaels' who authored Diamonds or Legend. The latter novel was written by a retired U.S. foreign services officer, who has also released a short story using the pseudonym, 'Alan Michaels.' Also, I am NOT the 'Alan V. Michaels' who plays violin on Richard Thompson's Sweet Warrior and Walking on a Wire albums, NOR am I a real estate agent named 'Alan V. Michaels' working in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hopefully, this important bit of information clears up the mysteries and sets the record straight!