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About Ron S. Friedman
RON S. FRIEDMAN is an Amazon.ca #1 Best Seller author in Time Travel, #1 Calgary Herald Best Seller Author and Best Short Fiction finalist in the 2016 Aurora Awards, Canada’s premier Science-Fiction and Fantasy awards.
Ron's debut novel, Typhoon Time, an Amazon.ca #1 Best Seller military-SF Alternate-History Techno-Thriller, was released by WordFire Press in March 2018.
Ron’s short stories have appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, and in other magazines and anthologies. Ron co-edited three anthologies and he received ten Honorable Mentions in Writers of the Future Contest, which have appeared in his short stories collection ESCAPE VELOCITY.
Ron is a member of SFWA and SFCanada, and a Quora most viewed author with over 2.7 million views.
Originally from Israel, Ron is living with his loving wife and two children in Calgary, Alberta.
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Blog postVillains and Conflicts – Palomino Room H- Thursday, April 21, 7:30PM – Learn how to use evolution, consciousness and behavior science to create a three-dimensional villain that can believably confront the hero. Eliminate the BS factor and the pitfalls of a simplistic moustache-twirling bad guy.
How to become a writer – Palomino room H – Saturday, April 23, 2:00PM Join this panel of science fiction and fantasy writers for this Q&A session all about writing!
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Blog postI’ll be presenting The Science Fiction Connection to Mars and the 2021 international Mars Society Convention
October 14th 14:30 PDT (Los Angeles time)
Registration is free
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Blog posthttps://fanexpohq.com/calgaryexpo/schedule/ SCIENCE AND SCI FI: HOW SCIENCE FICTION INSPIRED NEW INVENTIONS Saturday, 12:15 pm in ARABIAN ROOM From Star Trek’s communicator to the cell phone, 2001 Space Odyssey’s HAL to real Artificial Intelligence, and Asimov’s Foundation to modern day’s SpaceX. Science Fiction inspired the greatest minds of our generations to invent the technologies that are changing our world.
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Blog postWWC will be on-line free convention in August 13- 15 2021. Everyone can attend.
To register: https://www.whenwordscollide.org/
My presentations / panels:
Saturday 12:00 PM – Panel Chapter One: Your Debut Book
Faye Reineberg Holt, Craig DiLouie, ?, Susan Calder [PM] Your first book will be published. Hooray! It is a dream fulfilled, but will it also be an anticlimax? What surprises are in store? What is the next stage and how do you prepare? What can you do to a11 months ago Read more -
Blog postConnecting the public to Science and Technology through story telling.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzIT6SYViuWxAWcxG3c940w
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Blog postAn adventure story. Indiana Jones meet Jurassic Park. Originally published in 2019 in Gunsmoke & Dragonfire Weird West anthology.
Now you can buy the story as a stand-alone.
https://books2read.com/u/4AK9Ze
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Blog post2020 When Words Collide festival will be free and online.
To join any panel by zoom, download the program guide: https://www.whenwordscollide.org/code-of-conduct.php
Saturday, August 15th
12:00PM Ethics & Exploration Contamination
Jim Sheasby, Michael Gillett, Ron S. Friedman [PM]
When we begin exploring our solar system and creating off world colonies, we won’t be going alone. We’ll be bringing bacteria, and viruses with us that could contaminate a2 years ago Read more -
Blog postI delivered a presentation on July 15th on character based conflicts organized by Canadian Authors and SF Canada.
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Titles By Ron S. Friedman
Then, Earth experiences a global catastrophic collapse. No chance to resupply!
Can the space colonies survive?
-Ten stories
-Eight Honorable Mentions in Writers of the Future contest
-Six originals
-Four previously published
-One Prix Aurora Awards finalist
-Zero. All engines running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff …
Will humanity reach Escape Velocity?
Now, a Calgary Herald #1 Bestseller.
ISSUE 12: January 2015
Mike Resnick, Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Special tie-in with the movie PREDESTINATION. Includes “All You Zombies—“ by Robert A. Heinlein (short story the movies is based on), an interview with the Spierig Brothers (the Directors of the movie) and a special column on “All You Zombies—“ and Robert A. Heinlein by Barry Malzberg.
Stories by: Robert T. Jeschonek, Gardner Dozois, Sandra M. Odell, Maureen McHugh, Ron Friedman, Robert A. Heinlein, Zaslow Crane, Jack McDevitt, Andrea G. Stewart, Tina Gower
Serialization: Melodies of the Heart by Michael Flynn
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Paul Cook.
Interview: Joy Ward interviews Michael and Peter Spierig
Galaxy’s Edge is a bi-monthly (every two months) magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old (reprint) stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by Barry Malzberg and Gregory Benford, book reviews by Paul Cook and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Robert Lee Beers - A hardboiled P.I. and his partner must find their way back to the present from 1906 San Francisco before the Big One hits, dodging gunslingers and the risk of changing history, with only a drunken misanthropic wizard to help them...
James Blakey - A sheriff must question a colourful cast of characters to discover who has stolen a unicorn rancher's herd...
Zach Chapman - A card-cheating Spellslinger must duel a mysterious Green Gunslinger to his damnation or salvation...
Sara Codair - Two Martian sheriffs must stop a gang of outlaws from stealing a settlement's precious water, if they can keep their marriage together long enough to do it...
Eric S. Fomley - A marshal comes to town seeking an outlaw, but neither he nor the outlaw are the ordinary kind...
Milo James Fowler – Heroic Coyote Cal, the witch Donna Jamieson, and his faithful sidekick Big Yap, must stop a monster from ravaging the livestock and people of a town in the western desert...
Ron S. Friedman - A WWI pilot shot down over the Amazon must survive Germans, crazy scientists, the jungle and dinosaurs...
Carrie Gessner - An elven veteran is called back to face her demons when a little girl is snatched to serve the army that destroyed her...
Paul Alex Gray - The heir to the Bourbon Throne must earn coin in America to overthrow the French Republic and reclaim his birthright, so he builds a fantastic contraption to aid him...
Jude-Marie Green - Sorceress Jane Smith knows her partner Donna Quick is quite mad, but she follows her anyway...
Brent A. Harris - Marshal Bass Reeves has been asked for help by a desperate frontier settlement beleaguered by a dragon...
Ethan Hedman - A wandering gunfighter inherits an enchanted weapon, but it's broken...
Joachim Heijndermans - Two outlaws hole up in a quiet town full of terrified townsfolk, but all is not as it seems...
Russell Hemmell - Two investigators must discover why an entire colony in the Kuiper Belt has disappeared, leaving nothing but an anachronistic western frontier town in its place...
Liam Hogan - A young outlaw is hunted by an implacable mechanical foe...
G. Scott Huggins - A blacksmith with ghostly allies receives an unusual, and dangerous, client...
Sean Jones - The last Norse descendant in North America, who swears vengeance on the Comanche for killing his wife and village, is given supernatural aid by the Navajo...
Mackenzie Kincaid - Junior died helping Pa maintain the fence against the Somethings, so now 12-year-old Jane must take his place...
R. Daniel Lester - An old tap-dancing celebrity defaults on the payments for his magical shoes, and a repo agent has come to collect...
Diane Morrison - Two young elven Gunslingers must stop a cannibal spirit before it, or the blizzard it brings, kills everyone they know...
Diana L. Paxson - A painter journeys to the Rockies to paint landscapes, and stumbles upon an ancient mystery...
Claire Ryan - Rollo is going to get her giant slug herd in to market, come hell or high water, monster or no monster...
Ricardo Victoria - An ex-spellslinger has taken up a career as a travelling salesbeing of a newfangled weapon called a "rifle"...
Stanley B. Webb - A U.S. Marshal must stop a notorious outlaw who may or may not be a dragon...
This short story was originally published in Age Of Certainty Anthology, edited by William Freedman.
While the Great War rages in Europe, Lieutenant Mathew Rees of his Majesty’s Royal Flying Corps is sent to battle bugs, rain and malaria in the sky above the endless Amazon jungles of British Guyana.
Little does he know that a far greater danger lay below.