Marjorie F. Baldwin

Marjorie F. Baldwin (or “Friday”) is my pen name for science fiction. Friday was also the title character of the Robert A. Heinlein novel from the 1980s about “Artificial People.” That story heavily influenced the creation of an Artificial Lifeform named “Charlie” who became a leading male character in the Phoenician Series books. In fact, Charlie's the backbone of the series. Thank you RAH for that!

I write Social SciFi, the classic, speculative stuff set in a far future, more about people than gadgets though I have a lot of science in my SciFi. I'm influenced most by Heinlein but also by Asimov, Huxley, Dick, Bradbury, and more recently, Bujold. My Dystopian worlds are not YA style.

The Phoenician Series has 2 stories out: WHEN MINDS COLLIDE (William's Story) which is a short story/novella preceding the rest of the series by about 400 years and CONDITIONED RESPONSE (Shayla's Story) a long novel that used to be the start of the series until I created Raif. He's a big enough character as to require his own book.

Raif's Story is Book 1 and now has a name all it's own: MAN MADE MAN. I'm running a Kickstarter to crowdfund it in 2013. Would you please pledge your support before April 24?

>>>> http://kck.st/RaifStory <<<<<

If you'd like to sample my work, I suggest you start the series with WHEN MINDS COLLIDE. It's short and could be read in an hour or two. I caution you, however, to set aside the fact that 2 of the 3 leading men are a gay couple. I do not write "gay fiction" but just like in reality, there are some men in my stories who just so happen to be gay. WMC is William Harrington's story. He's a fascinating character who will appear in every book in the rest of the series.

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