Author Charlie Marino was born in the Bronx, New York and holds a BS and MS in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. His various occupations included bond and commodities t...view moreAuthor Charlie Marino was born in the Bronx, New York and holds a BS and MS in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. His various occupations included bond and commodities trading, founding several small computer companies, and now writes sci-fi novels and short stories. He has more robots than friends, but they’re good ones.The author makes his home in the mountains of America, where he helped the nice folks at SETI until the great fall, carves his own wooden chess sets, plays bocci, and designs battlebots.As a gift to fans who have asked for something like this, there is a FREE pdf at Archive.org which contains the entire first chapter of each of my novels. Download “The Science Fiction of Charlie Marino” free. Or reach me on Facebook for the free pdf by joining my mailing list !For those of you who know my free essay on "A Dyslexic Learns To Read By Powerlifting" I am starting a KickStarter crowd-fund Nov 17 to launch a free audiobook! Please check it out at :https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charliemarinobooks/audio-book-a-dyslexic-learns-to-read-by-powerliftingIt worked. Please help if you can.view less