Featuring Mike's short story, "There's Still Hope While One Tree Grows," a sci-fi murder mystery that he describes as "Soylent Green meets Silent Running."
Edited by bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and award-winning editor Allyson Longueira.
Book launch and signing for anthology Into the Deep, Dark Woods, featuring my short story "There's Still Hope While One Tree Grows." Edited by bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and award-winning editor Allyson Longueira.
6-7:30 PM Rady Engineering Building, Room 109 Western Colorado University Gunnison, Colorado
I'll appear as a panelist at TBRCon 2026, an online sci-fi/fantasy/horror conference, speaking on the topic of "The Politics of Utopia vs. Dystopia" with panelists Wole Talabi, Brian Penn, Krystle Matar, Moses Ose Utomi, and moderator Taran Hunt.
The panel will take place LIVE online, from 8:30-10:00 PM MT, with a recording available afterward.
Mike Strickland has made a career out of writing everything from marketing copy and finance articles to technical documentation and mobile app messages—and even twenty thousand science fiction-themed trivia questions. Other jobs he's been paid to do include scuba diver, navigator, call center representative, user experience designer, and science fiction author. His love of words began with fantasy and sci-fi, where it has now brought him full circle. After a long hiatus from fiction, Mike reignited his writing career by earning a master’s degree in creative writing from Western Colorado University’s Genre Fiction program and winning the Writers of the Future Contest.
His award-winning speculative fiction has appeared in the bestselling anthology Writers of the Future Volume 42, WordFire Press anthologies Into the Deep, Dark Woods and Requiem: Anthology of the Undead, Cast of Wonders, Amazing Stories, and elsewhere. He’s published hundreds of nonfiction articles in the Los Angeles Times, Disney.com, the Travel Channel, AOL, and many others.
Mike currently lives and writes in a Denver, Colorado suburb, but other places he’s called home include San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, DC, Japan, Honduras, an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, and even a 1973 Volkswagen Squareback. He's not sure if this itinerant lifestyle emerged from his love of travel or vice versa, but his wanderings have undeniably inspired his writing.
Mike Strickland has made a career out of writing everything from marketing copy and finance articles to technical documentation and mobile app messages—and even twenty thousand science fiction-themed trivia questions. Other jobs he's been paid to do include scuba diver, navigator, call center representative, user experience designer, and science fiction author. His love of words began with fantasy and sci-fi, where it has now brought him full...
