Gene Steinberg
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Gene is an award-winning journalist who discovered the magic of writing while still a teenager. He edited his own science fiction and New Age fanzine, and began writing a science fiction novel about an Earthman who finds himself in an unknown land faced with life-threatening situations.
In 1984 Gene began to work with the original Apple Macintosh personal computer and never looked back. Over the next few years, Gene finally decided to follow his dream and become a full-time writer, but he also devoted extra time to work as a computer software/systems consultant partly to provide material for his books and magazine articles.
Gene has written over 30 books on computers and the Internet, plus hundreds of articles for such industry publications as MacAddict, MacHome, MacUser, Macworld and Computer Shopper. He has also written weekly columns for The Arizona Republic and USA Today. His computer news and support Web site, The Mac Night Owl, receives thousands and thousands of visitors each day.
His investigative feature for CNET, “Death of a PC Vendor II,” won a “Maggie” award as the Best Online Article by the Western Publications Association.
As for that science fiction novel Gene began as a teenager, he finally had the chance to complete the story. Gene and his 18-year-old son, Grayson, have expanded that original story and developed a new science-fiction adventure series, Attack of the Rockoids.
Three novels based on the “Rockoids” concept have been written so far. The first novel is available a large paperback edition from Toad Hall Press. In addition, the official Rockoids Web site features news about the series, a message board system, plus weekly entertainment news updates. A special forum covering the Rockoids series, plus Gene’s computer books, has been established on America Online in the Books area of the service’s Entertainment channel.
Plans for the future include a computer game based on Rockoids, a comic book, plus a possible adaptation of the series for film and television; in fact, the first draft of a screenplay was recently completed and a number of new story ideas are being developed. In addition, Bruce A. Sales, a New York-based composer of commercial and film scores, has written a musical theme based on the series. You will soon be able to hear an excerpt from the theme at the Attack of the Rockoids site, so stay tuned.
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