Joseph P. Martino

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Joseph Paul Martino (born July 16, 1931 in Warren , Ohio ) is an American science fiction writer and science consultant.

He studied at Miami University and Purdue University , where he graduated with a Masters . He then received his PhD from Ohio State University . After graduating, he worked for the US Air Force at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington , most recently with the rank of Colonel . After serving in the military, he worked as a researcher at the University of Dayton Research Institute , where he studied futurology , technology assessment and research policy decision-making . His textbook on Technological Forecasting for Decision Making has been published several times, most recently in 1993.

In 1960 he published the science fiction story Pushbutton War and in the following decades a good dozen other stories that are attributed to the Hard SF . He was a member of First Fandom , temporarily editor of Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report, and was awarded the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 2010 .

bibliography

SF short stories
  • Pushbutton War (1960)
  • Delivery Tube (1966)
  • ... Not a Prison Make (1966)
  • Tunnel Warrior (1966)
  • To Change Their Ways (1967)
  • Security Measure (1967)
  • Brain Drain (1968)
  • Secret Weapon (1968)
  • Persistence (1969)
  • Zero Sum (1971)
  • The Iceworm Special (1981)
  • Pandora's Printout (1983)
  • Paper Virus (1993)
  • To Have What It Takes (2000)
  • A Bridge in Time (2007)
Non-fiction
  • Technological Forecasting for Decisionmaking. Elsevier, New York 1972, ISBN 0-444-00122-0 .
  • An Introduction to Technological Forecasting. Gordon and Breach, London 1972, ISBN 0-677-15050-4 .
  • Research and development project selection. Wiley, New York 1995, ISBN 0-471-59537-3 .
editor
  • Long Range Forecasting and Planning: A Symposium Held at Denver - Colorado, August 16-17, 1966. Office of Aerospace Research, Arlington, VA 1966.
  • Long Range Forecasting Methodology: 2nd Symposium, Alamogordo - New Mexico., October 11-12, 1967. Office of Aerospace Research, Arlington, VA 1968.

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personal data
SURNAME Martino, Joseph P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martino, Joseph Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer and science consultant
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Warren , Ohio