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Michael A. Banks
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Michael A. Banks (born 1951) is a science fiction writer and editor. He is perhaps best known for nonfiction works about the genre and "collaborations" with Mack Reynolds. Banks has several other novels to his credit, (including The Odysseus Solution, with Dean R. Lambe), and has been a frequent contributor to Analog, Asimov's SF, and other publications.
A former columnist for Windows Magazine and Computer Shopper, Banks was early on the scene as an Internet journalist, documenting the growth of online services and, later, the Internet and Web from the early 1980s onward. His The Modem Reference (Brady/Simon & Schuster) was a standard guide to the online world throughout the 1980s, selling more than 200,000 copies.
Banks explored Internet crime and computer privacy with books such as Web Psychos, Stalkers and Pranksters (Coriolis) and PC Confidential (Sybex).
Banks has lately turned to the biography field, writing about noted aviators, inventors, and other figures for magazines. His most recent book, CROSLEY: Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nationis the story of inventor Powel Crosley, Jr., whose low-cost radios touched off the broadacsting industry in 1921. (Crosley also founded WLW, the world's most powerful radio station, built the Crosley automobile and Moonbeam aircraft, and was involved in a number of other high-tech ventures during the first half of the 20th Century.)
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, pages 88-89
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