About Steve Bellinger: Steve was born and raised on the West Side of
Chicago by a single mom who worked nights for a printing company. She
would bring home books and magazines to encourage him and his siblings
to read. This is how he discovered Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein,
Arthur C. Clarke and the other masters of classic science fiction. It
didn’t take long for him to get the itch to write. Over the years
he's written everything from newspaper articles, comic strips and
radio drama to short stories and fan fiction.One of the original
Trekkies, he and his wife Donna plan to renew their wedding vows with
a full Star Trek-themed ceremony; he'll wear an admiral’s dress
uniform, and she will be decked out in a custom-made leather-and-lace
Klingon wedding dress. It will be the only time he has ever outranked
her. About The Chronocar: Imagine being born the son of a slave with
the mind of a genius. That was Simmie Johnson in the years following
the Civil War.After a perilous escape from lynch mobs in Mississippi,
he manages to earn a PhD in physics at Tuskegee, and in his research,
discovers the secret of time travel. He develops a design for a time
machine, called a Chronocar, but the technology required to make it
work does not yet exist.Fast forward a hundred and twenty-five years.
A young African American Illinois Tech student in Chicago finds Dr.
Johnson’s plans and builds a Chronocar. He goes back to the year
1919 to meet the doctor and his beautiful daughter, Ollie, who live in
Chicago’s Black Belt, now known as Bronzeville.But, he has chosen an
unfortunate time in the past and becomes involved in the bloodiest
race riot in Chicago’s history. About Joe Rulli: Joseph Anthony
Rulli is a transplanted Hoosier, living in Chicago since the fall of
2006. A 1987 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a 1992
graduate of St. Meinrad School of Theology he taught Social Studies,
Religion, Philosophy and History at the high school level. He began
writing as a career upon his arrival to his second city and has had
two short stories published, a stage play performed, an electronic
tour book published online and The Chicago Haymarket Affair his first
print book, followed by Chicago Socialism: The People’s History.
About Chicago Socialism: In the United States, Chicago provided
Socialism with a soapbox for firebrand speechmaking, a home for
political exiles and a springboard for activism. When Josephine
Conger-Kaneko began printing The Socialist Woman in 1909 and then ran
for alderwoman in 1914, she could appeal to an audience and an
electorate sympathetic to the Socialist Party in unprecedented
numbers. Because Chicago was also a stronghold of the mercantile and
political interests most dramatically opposed to the Socialist Party,
the city frequently served as a pressure cooker for the nation's
economic and ideological tension. That tension boiled over in
incidents like the 1886 Haymarket Riot, the 1894 Pullman Strike and
the 1919 Race Riots and continues to dictate the terms of engagement
for contemporary protest movements and labor disputes. In this first
comprehensive history of Socialism in the Windy City, author Joseph
Rulli examines these major events through the largely unchronicled
lives of the Chicago citizens who experienced them, from centennial
garment workers to millennials with megaphones.
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