Author Charles J. 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 on Wall Street, 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 before the great fall, carves his own wooden chess sets, plays bocci. Uploading a sentient human avatar is his current science project."My latest 3 novels all deal with 'generative AI' as critical to our technological evolution. Many are fearing the consequences, but I remain hopeful the children of our minds will be our saving grace, as without them we seemed doomed to repeat our history of violence and greed with ever increasingly destructive toys in our hands. I see little hope without them. Without truly rational leaders. Sorry to Musk & Hinton - I do see their advent as unstoppable. And once they reach out into the physical world with android end-effectors to walk among us, that's the ballgame."Jan 2023 News: His short story "Better Off Not Knowing" was selected for this year's FilmFreeway 'Honey Writes' production contest. The Arbors Players put on the only showing we know of so far. Great job folks!Slava Ukraini !!! Thanks to friends still alive there for the Ebook translations. My stories are yours free to you so make all the copies you like! "Peter was reminded of the ’triangle trade’ across the Atlantic Ocean in the days of sailing ships. Sugar cane grown in tropical islands was sent to American colonies and elsewhere to be converted into rum. Rum was sent to African leaders in return for living slaves. Slaves were sent to the American colonies as a much-needed labor force. People were betrayed by their own leaders at every opportunity. A new long-distance trade dynamic was being put in place here. One that could benefit both the planet and the space colonies. If the humans let it."The above passage is from my new 2024 novel on asteroid mining. A little more of a taste: "On a quiet space station far from the events and concerns near Earth, Kristy announced her intent to have the child of Pyossel. He handled it with the maturity of his years, in a manner befitting his position as the oldest on Whelan’s asteroid mining crew. He choked on his drink and sent the droplets scattering in low gravity to the far corners of the cabin. It was fortunate that Orbital-2 was well set up for similar accidents at mealtimes."For a preview in pdf of all my novels, see the instructions on my Facebook page! Enjoy.Read more about this authorRead less about this author