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Biography Page for John G. McDaid

[right sidebar} Insert photo of author Born: John G. McDaid Brooklyn, NY Date of Birth? Residence: Portsmouth, Rhode Island Alma Mater: New School University, New York University Children: Jack Married to: Karen Marlow Website: http://harddeadlines.com/node/23, https://www.reverbnation.com/jmcdaid (music performances and recordings), https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmcdaid

John McDaid is a science fiction writer and citizen journalist. One of the first hypertext novels, Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse, published by Eastgate Systems, was a New Media Invision Award finalist in 1993. He contributes to RIFutures.org, a progressive political blog and is the editor and webmaster of harddeadlines.com, a local news and politics blog covering Portsmouth, RI.He retired in 2016 to focus on writing and performing music. Early Life: Born in Brooklyn during the year NASA was created, John McDaid grew up reading science fiction. He writes that "Robert Heinlein and Andrea Norton were his other parents. (source: Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse: A Hypermedia Novel. [installation pamphlet included in the chocolate box http://www.eastgate.com/people/McDaid.html) and, as he grew up, they morphed into James Tiptree, Jr., Thomas Pynchon, and Ursula LeGuin (http://harddeadlines.com/about/me).

Education: McDaid attended Syracuse University for five years, taking courses on theatre, mass communication and existential philosophy. He earned a liberal arts degree and did graduate work at the New School University and an ABD in Media Ecology at New York University. McDaid served as Coordinator of Computer Composition at NYU. During his seven years in academia, McDaid taught writing and communication courses at NYU, Adelphi University, and the New York Institute of Technology. With Michael Joyce, Nancy Kaplan, and Stuart Moulthrop, he co-founded TINAC, a group of writers and theorists of hypertext. He has spoken on digital narrative at dozens of colleges and conferences.

Selected Works:

Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse. Cambridge, MA: Eastgate Systems, Inc, 1992. Computer file.

"The Planes: a Decoupled Monomeric Hypernarrative." Writing on the Edge. 2.2 (1991): 139-49. Print. Offers a monomeric narrative intended as a side-chain narrative to "WOE," a hypertext read-only narrative computer file included on disk with this journal. The story is also available on-line in a compilation of early hyperfictions http://www.newmediareader.com/cd_samples/WOE/McDaid.html

"Luddism, SF, and the Aesthetics of Electronic Fiction." The New York Review of Science Fiction, vol. 69, May 1994, p. 1.

Keyboard Practice, consisting of an Aria with diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with two Manuals, a novelette, Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2005 audiobook link to download http://harddeadlines.com/fiction

(Nothing But) Flowers, 13 April 2009. http://harddeadlines.com/node/984

"Umbrella Man." http://harddeadlines.com/fiction/umbrellamen This story appeared in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

The Ashbazu Effect (short story) appeared in ReVisions, August, 2004. Edited by Julie Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel. Also available at http://harddeadlines.com/node/23

Jigoku no mokushiroku, http://harddeadlines.com/node/22

Narrative in the Information Society, Published Spring, 2000 http://harddeadlines.com/papers?q=node/8

The Virtue of Modelessness: From Object Oriented Text to Quantum Indeterminacy, Publshed on ArtCom Digest, December, 1992

Reanimating the Logos: Computers and Electronic Orality, Conference on College Composition and Communications, March 1987 http://harddeadlines.com/papers?q=node/12

Moulthrop, Stuart, and John McDaid. ""not yet Blindingly One": gravity's Rainbow and the Hypertextualists." Pynchon Notes. (2016): 132. Print.

References:

http://www.eastgate.com/people/McDaid.html

Edwards, Gavin. "Uncle John's Text." The Village Voice: 46. Feb 01 1994.

http://harddeadlines.com/about/me

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmcdaid

Work Page for Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse Eastgate Systems, retailed for $39.95

Description: "Art 'Buddy' Newkirk has disappeared and left you his literary estate. By the looks of it, he and his friends were a very odd bunch. You might have enjoyed knowing them. But you don't - why does 'Uncle' Buddy think you do? Where is he, anyway? And what does this have to do with Meister Eckhart and the New York City subway?"--Eastgate Systems, Inc (http://dtc-wsuv.org/ell-catalog/site2/elit.php?p=900

Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse was John McDaid's first novel.

In 1985, a friend of McDaid's challenged him to write a book that a 20th century novelist could not write (Village Voice)

Buddy Newkirk, Science Fiction Writer

Candy Box Contents: Two cassette tapes of McDaid (in the guise of Buddy) performing concept rock albums; Buddy Newkirk, Retribution and Art Newkirk, The Story of Emily and the Time Machine 52 page analysis of Jerome Brentano, a fictional rock critic letter addressed to Buddy Newkirk from Chris, dated October 18, 1988 Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse disk Installation instructions Registration card

Photos of Buddy are of McDaid

References:

Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse. Cambridge, MA: Eastgate Systems, Inc, 1992. Computer file.

"Coelacanth History: Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse and the Cybertext of Things by Stuart Moulthrop in Moulthrop, Stuart, Dene Grigar, and Joseph Tabbi. Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: The MIT Press, 2017. Print.

Critical writing that reference the work: https://elmcip.net/creative-work/uncle-buddys-phantom-funhouse