Mark Rich

Mark Rich has published in publications ranging from Poem, Rattle, and Ship of Fools to Analog, SF Age and Amazing Stories, during the course of his writing life. He spent somewhere around fifteen years writing for toy and antique magazines including Toy Shop and Toy Cars & Models. He reports that by the time he almost knew what he was doing, these magazines met the fate of many such print-based venues, in recent years.

Recently a number of his short stories have been collected into book form. His new March 2010 biography of Cyril Kornbluth is, he believes, fully as ambitious as his TOYS A TO Z, but much more adequately realized. His fascination with Kornbluth has been nearly life-long; and the work that led to the publication of the biography began before he started down the path of becoming "expert" at American toy-manufacturing history.

C.M. KORNBLUTH: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF A SCIENCE FICTION VISIONARY is, as the title suggests, an in-depth look at both the writer and his works. It ends with a short section that explores a particular thematic strand in Kornbluth's works.