David S. Michaels

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birthdate = birth year and age|1957
birthplace = Salt Lake City, Utah
nationality = United States
occupation = Novelist, Coin dealer
genre = Science fiction (hard SF)

David S. Michaels was born in 1957. He went to school in Salt Lake City, Utah with aspirations of becoming a science fiction writer. He moved to California in the 1970s and attended a small college where he studied journalism, having no classes on SF available to him. After graduation he worked in journalism until 1991, when he began a new career as a dealer of ancient Greek and Roman coins.

In October, 2007, [http://www.breakneckbooks.com/ Breakneck Books] published his first novel, "Red Moon" with co-author and junior-high-school friend David Breton, a critically-praised [ [http://www.breakneckbooks.com/redmoon.html Breakneck Books's Red Moon page, showing critical praise] ] novel that combined fascination with the historical American and Soviet moon race with near-future speculation of a multinational return mission to the moon for lunar ice prospecting.

David S. Michaels currently lives in Valencia, California with his wife, Margo, and three daughters.

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