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Matthew Jarpe

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http://www.matthewjarpe.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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I was born in St. Joseph, Michigan in 1966 but I grew up on a "farm" in Los Lunas, New Mexico. I use the scare quotes because we didn't actually raise much food, we just kept farm animals as pets. Well, we did eat the pigs and the chicken's eggs. I have a BS in Biology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, a well known party school in the Big Ten (where Big Ten refers to the ten biggest mining schools, of which there are actually only two, and they're not that big). I have a PhD in Biochemistry from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and I use that PhD on a daily basis as Director of Biology at Acetylon.

I wrote Radio Freefall when I was working on my postdoctoral fellowship in Denver. I found writing to be a good way to rel ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 392 ratings · 49 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Year's Best SF 11 by David G. Hartwell (Editor, Contributor), Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), David Langford (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radio Freefall 3.72 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2004 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #634) by Gordon van Gelder (Editor), Jack Cady, Albert E. Cowdrey 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 24, No. 7, July 2000 by Gardner Dozois (Editor), Greg Egan (Contributor), Robert Silverberg (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Machine Intelligence 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002 by Gardner Dozois (Editor), Ian Watson (Contributor), Keith Allen Daniels (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2004 by Gardner Dozois (Editor), R. Garcia y Robertson (Contributor), Tom Purdom (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2004 (Asimov's Science Fiction, #343) by Gardner Dozois (Editor), Richard Parks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), William Barton (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2005 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Connie Willis (Contributor), Phillip C. Jennings (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars