Author Massimo Marino

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Massimo Marino

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I'm Italian, and because even in Italy that means everything and nothing at all, I should say, I am Sicilian. I was born in Palermo, and as it happened with countless Sicilians, I left it, back in 1986. I lived more years abroad than in my home country, and I have changed in many and different ways than my old friends there. It is always a pleasure to go back, but it is now 6 long years since my last visit. Saudade? Maybe, a little. I lived in Switzerland, France, and the United States. I am a scientist as a background, and have spent over 17 years in fundamental research. Most of my writing are then academic stuff, and I always wonder at how much Google is able to find about everyone. I am sure one has to Google oneself so not to forget too much...  I worked for many years at CERN—an international lab for particle physics research near Geneva, Switzerland—then in the US at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Fantastic moments and memories from those years. In 2005 I moved to the private sector, worked with Apple Inc., and then for the World Economic Forum. I wrote since I was a kid, short stories and novellas, but never had anyone read it. It was a personal thing. Then, work and life took their toll and I stopped. Slightly over a year ago, for various reasons, I started again with some burning inside that needed to come out. On the first weekend I got over 15000 words, then subscribed to critters.org for peer review, lurked a year keeping on writing and getting feedback. On September 2012 my debut novel, "Daimones", saw the light. It received the 2012 PRG Reviewer's Choice Award in Science Fiction. Last February it was awarded with the Hall of Fame - Best Science Fiction by Quality Reads UK, and received over 64% of the 1600+ readers votes. To the day, Daimones has sold over 5,000 copies and it’s Finalist at the 2014 National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA).   The sequel, "Once Humans", was published in July 2013 and has sold more than 1,500 copies since. The last book, Vol.3, "The Rise of the Phoenix” has been published in May 2014.   The novels have been optioned by an Independent Audiobook Publisher in the US, Sci-Fi Publishing LCC, and both Daimones and Once Humans are now available as audiobooks too. (Available from audible.com, Amazon and iTunes). My Amazon page is: http://www.amazon.com/Massimo-Marino/e/B008O53L5O my blog: http://massimomarinoauthor.com @Massim0Marin0

 

The Daimones Trilogy is a post-apocalyptic story where one of the dominant races in the galaxy culls the human race for inscrutable reasons.

 

Vol.1, "Daimones", introduces readers to a silent but deadly invasion that leaves the few survivors befuddled, wary, and broken. Dan Amenta and his family awake one day in a world where everyone is dead but no evidence points to a cause. Initial searches for survivors yield nothing and—in panic—the family turns their house into a stronghold.

 

Eventually, they find Laura, a young, sexy, and disruptive girl who have seen…things. Her presence adds questions about what is moral and ethical in this new reality. She manages to win their hearts...and leads Dan to temptation. Laura reveals her panicking encounter with strange entities which Dan recognizes in his childhood hallucinations.

 

Dan forces himself to find and confront them: an older power—the Moîrai—controls the fate of men. A few Selected—as they are called by the aliens—will face the ultimate quest: a painful genetic transformation and work toward the rebirth of a new human race, or oblivion and death in isolation. They are surrounded by other humans, the 'spared ones' the aliens allowed to live to better support the transformation of their ‘selected’ human specimens.

 

In Vol.2, "Once Humans", mankind is undergoing rebirth, the spared ones are closely watched by the Selected: the transgenic beings created by the Moîrai. People thrive with the aliens' support and peace and security reign on Eridu, as the planet Earth is known by the Moîrai and in the galaxy. But peace and security of the cradle are shattered by acts of sabotage set to disrupt the fragile balance of the fledgling communities.

 

The events reveal a cosmic conspiracy—and involving other races—full of betrayal and fear, being hatched with the hope of pushing the world perilously close to the brink of self-destruction.

 

The last volume of the series, “The Rise of the Phoenix”, sees the death of the last spared human on Earth. The new race of man—the Selected and their progeny—has no more moral obligations, and its leadership can now prepare for revenge. Confusion, sadness, and fear mix into Dan's mind, and doubts accompany him as he becomes the leader of transgenic humans. A new neurological drug, Fusion, is heavily produced on Eridu and has created the path for a rapid evolution of the new humans, richness and good fortune.

 

The past events--Daimones Trilogy Vol.2--revealed the crucial role the humans have in the galaxy organization...and made them aware of their strength. Once Hope, the last surviving daughter of Dan Amenta leaves this life, a moral obligation suddenly is no more. Things can change, and they must. A new order and a new course will put in place the events the Moîrai have sewn and destined to rip apart the foundations of the galaxy.

 

PA novels are often about cataclysmic events, survivors fending off dangers at every page, zombie attacks, aliens destroying everything for inscrutable reasons, or as a fulfillment of a religious prophecy. Daimones is different. The novel places a few survivors in a world that experienced a planetary culling of humankind, one with no immediate or apparent cause. The Apocalypse has arrived yet the 'why' and 'how' remain unknown in a frustrating and fearful reality for Dan Amenta and his family. They will grow, and the Selected will part more and more from the 'spared ones.’ in subtle ways.

 

Daimones Trilogy is a sci-fi for the thinking person and who loves to envision a story through a growing, and complex character personality. Written as a journey into what makes humans what they are. 

 

Readers non accustomed to sci-fi have received the story well, too, as romance and love haunt Dan at every page. I’m present online with thousands of followers in both FB and Twitter and my blog posts are regularly retweeted many times. (http://massimomarinoauthor.com)

 

While Vol.1 targets a more mature audience (not exactly teens), Vol.2 and Vol.3 feature more action scenes and faster paces as the direct confrontation with the aliens unfolds, thus they both can attract younger readers, too. 

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