Synopses & Reviews
"ReadingMartian Dawnis like watching an ultracool comedy of the future where familiar movie types develop into idyllic interplanetary characters in order to make yet more movies. It's as thoughStar Trek,Pretty Woman,andThere's Something About Mary had been sublimated in an unlikely fusion that is both comforting and hilarious."-Harry Mathews
Michael Friedmanis a practicing attorney, author of six poetry collections, and founding editor of the literary journal Shiny. His poems from Specieswere included in Great AmericanProse Poems: From Poe to the Present,published by Scribner.
Review
"Reading Martian Dawn is like watching an ultracool comedy of the future where familiar movie types develop into idyllic interplanetary characters in order to make yet more movies. It's as though Star Trek, Pretty Woman, and There's Something About Mary had been sublimated in an unlikely fusion that is both comforting and hilarious." Harry Mathews
Synopsis
This spare, funny fiction debut offers a playful imagining of the lives of a fictional movie-star couple, Richard and Julia, who are reminiscent of the millionaire and prostitute played on-screen by Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in the Pygmalion update Pretty Woman. While they are involved in shooting the science-fiction movie Martian Dawn, their lives intersect with those of an unlikely assortment of other characters, including a would-be sea captain, a film producer and his therapist, a cosmonaut and her astronaut boyfriend, two members of the Biosphere team, and a Tibetan Buddhist rinpoche.
Synopsis
Playful, sly, deadpan imagining of the lives of a fictional movie star couple Richard and Julia.
About the Author
Michael Friedman is a practicing attorney, author of six poetry collections, and founding editor of the literary journal Shiny. His poems from Species were included in Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, published by Scribner. He was educated at Columbia, Yale and Duke. Former Chairman of St. Mark's Poetry Project he now practices law in Denver and teaches in Naropa's MFA program.