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Miriam Seidel is a writer and longtime sci-fi fan. Her latest book, written as Mir Seidel, is TESLA'S OPERA: THE REAL, STRANGER-THAN-FICTION NIKOLA TESLA. It tells the story of the visionary inventor through the the opera about him that she wrote the libretto for. The opera, Violet Fire, was performed in New York, Philadelphia, and Belgrade. Her novel, THE SPEED OF CLOUDS, is a genre mashup about science-fiction fandom. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Bourbon Penn, Exquisite Corpse, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and other journals and anthologies. She’s written about the arts for Art in America, the Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications. ...more

Nikola Tesla’s extraordinary love story

Most people know Nikola Tesla as an inventor. His breakthroughs in electricity and wireless transmission helped to transform our world; that’s why his name is associated with a well-known electric car (more about that later). But Tesla’s visionary side didn’t just express itself in the world-changing inventions he imagined into being. He also had actual […]

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