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Timothy Quinn is a writer, photographer and editor who's taught at both
New York University and the
City University of New York.
He's not, sadly, a southern lawyer, U.S. naval commander, research dermatopathologist,
Irish politician or New Jersey police captain. Those are all other Googleable Timothy
Quinns, and they will happily remit outstanding debts on his behalf.
This particular Timothy Quinn has written professionally on such diverse subjects as
technology, psychology, education, law and politics, appearing in
Z Magazine,
The Australia Financial Review,
SpaceDaily,
Prospect,
BYTE and the
New Orleans Review.
His latest book is Octopus Intelligence,
which will be released by Guernica Editions in 2009, and will be available through local and online
retailers in North America and Europe. To receive notification when Octopus Intelligence
hits bookstore shelves, please subscribe to the RSS feed
or visit the official Octopus Intelligence website.
In February 2003, Timothy Quinn joined Featurewell's
group of award-winning internationally syndicated authors. In recent years, he has served as a
Consulting Technical Editor for The Princeton Review
and a Consulting Science Editor for ECW Press.
He is the recipient of five Ontario Arts Council grants –
with funding allocated by Dundurn Press,
Books in Canada,
Tsar Publications,
Coach House Press and
Cormorant Books – and is a past invitee of
Portland State University's annual reading series.
For further information on republication rights, editorial assignments or speaking requests,
please inquire.
Current projects in development include "The Sociopath," a play about a decapitation in a Chinese restaurant, and
a nonfiction book about the narrowing of choice in an increasingly data-driven culture. For further information
on these projects, or to obtain a list of Timothy Quinn's pending story ideas, please
contact the author.
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As strategies go, the high road wasn't particularly effective with Roswell and doesn't seem to be working with Area 51 either. The Fox network's alien autopsy fiasco is a good indication that many people still think an alien spacecraft landed outside Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947 - rather than what was later identified as a military weather balloon, a mix-up which seems to have originated when William Brazel, the rancher who discovered the wreckage on his property, reported to the local sheriff that he had stumbled across what appeared to be "one of them flying saucers." Likewise, Area 51 - a top-secret Air Force proving ground for experimental aircraft in the Great Basin Desert of Nevada - has acquired a persistent following of UFOlogists who believe this remote site to be the flashpoint for a pending alien invasion of the heartland. Blame it on too many remakes of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers": instead of remembering that the original 1956 version had alien pods standing in for communists (or, in opposing interpretations, for McCarthyists), we choose to remember the alien pods as... holy shit, alien pods! The intelligence community is at least partially to blame for this kind of literalist paranoia: reluctant denials and blacked-out memoranda are obviously a poor substitute for clear and open refutation.
From If You're Reading This, The World Didn't End Last Thursday
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy , by William Barrett (ISBN 0385031386).
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