Dream Makers, Vol. 2 [Mass Market Paperback]

Charles Platt (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Books, New York (May 5, 1955)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425058808
• ISBN-13: 978-0425058800
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,410,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charles Platt became interested in computers when he acquired an Ohio Scientific C4P in 1979. After writing and selling software by mail order, he taught classes in BASIC programming, MS-DOS, and subsequently Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. He wrote five computer books during the 1980s.

He has also written science fiction novels such as The Silicon Man (published by Wired books) and Protektor (from Avon Books). He stopped writing science fiction when he started contributing to Wired magazine in 1993, and became one of its three senior writers a couple of years later.

Charles began contributing to Make magazine in its third issue and is currently a contributing editor. Make: Electronics is his first book for Make Books. Currently he is designing and building prototypes of medical equipment in his workshop in a northern Arizona wilderness area.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Interviews!, January 28, 2009

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Ronald P "not just a geek" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dream Makers, Volume 2 (Paperback)

This is a collection of interviews with science fiction legends, from Keith Laumer to Andre Norton to Larry Niven. Now if only I could find volume one.