{"id":1911,"date":"2024-08-19T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d46\/?page_id=1911"},"modified":"2024-08-24T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T13:20:03","slug":"michael-marotta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d46\/michael-marotta\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Marotta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p><strong>Michael Marotta will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2024<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Marotta currently (2020-2024) edits and writes for &#8220;This Month in Astronomical History&#8221; of the American Astronomical Society. He taught robot operations and programming for Kawasaki Robotics (USA). He has been granted several literary awards for his non-fiction writing. The first came from a nomination by a Smithsonian curator. That article on the origins of coinage corrected the Encyclopedia Britannica. The second was for a biography of Sir Isaac Newton\u2019s 30-year tenure as warden and master of the British Royal Mint. While learning to fly, he wrote for regional and local aviation periodicals. As a petty officer in the Maritime Regiment of the Texas State Guard, he taught computer operations for emergency management. He is a card-carrying criminologist (BS and MA Eastern Michigan University). His first (of two) science fiction short stories, &#8220;Building on Mars,&#8221; appeared in Plan &amp; Print, (International Reprographic Association, Chicago, September 1987). He was paid a dollar a word.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-abae1e99 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Marotta-Michael-FaceCard.jpg ,https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Marotta-Michael-FaceCard.jpg 780w, https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Marotta-Michael-FaceCard.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d46\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Marotta-Michael-FaceCard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-1716\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" title=\"&quot;Marotta Michael FaceCard&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Marotta will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2024! Mike Marotta currently (2020-2024) edits and writes for &#8220;This Month in Astronomical History&#8221; of the American Astronomical Society. He taught robot operations and programming for Kawasaki Robotics (USA). He has been granted several literary awards for his non-fiction writing. 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