Michael A. Banks

Who is Michael A. Banks?

Michael A. Banks is a writer and editor of science fiction and non-fiction. In the science fiction field he is perhaps best known for nonfiction works about the genre and collaborations with Mack Reynolds. Banks has several other novels to his credit, and has been a frequent contributor to Analog, Asimov's SF, and other publications.

A former columnist for Windows Magazine and Computer Shopper, Banks was early on the scene as an Internet journalist, documenting the growth of online services and, later, the Internet and Web from the early 1980s onward. His The Modem Reference was a standard guide to the online world throughout the 1980s, selling more than 200,000 copies.

Banks explored Internet crime and computer privacy with books such as Web Psychos, Stalkers and Pranksters and PC Confidential.

He also served as a freelance acquisitions editor for Baen Books, and associate editor for Baen's quarterly "book-a-zine," New Destinies, in the 1980s.

Banks has lately turned to the biography field, writing about noted aviators, inventors, and other figures for magazines. A recent book, CROSLEY: is the story of inventor Powel Crosley, Jr., whose low-cost radios touched off the broadacsting industry in 1921.