Albo, Mike
Entry updated 2 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1969- ) US comedian, playwright, journalist and author, variously active from the early 1990s. His first novel, Hornito: My Lie Life (2000), contains stabs of Satire but remains nonfantastic, as does The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life (2005) with Virginia Hefferman [neither book is listed below]. Sexotheque (performed 16 December 1999 Eno's, Austin, Texas) is a musical Satire (see Theatre) on the Near Future Media Landscape, in which consumers' souls are hyperbolically vied for.
Albo is of strongest sf interest for Another Dimension of Us (2023), a Young Adult romance with Time Opera alternations between 1985, where young Tommy is threatened by AIDS, and 2044, by which time a dreadful new Pandemic threatens the cast, and the world. [JC]
Michael Albo
born Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, Ohio: 22 May 1969
works (highly selected)
- Another Dimension of Us (New York: Penguin Workshop, 2023) [hb/]
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