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@SciAm alumnus and author of science thrillers: Final Theory, The Six, The Coming Storm, Saint Joan of New York. My latest: The Doomsday Show

New York City
Joined November 2012
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It was a truly mesmerizing and moving performance, and the composer did an amazing job capturing the essence of the stories in music. The reality check afterward grounded us in the real, interesting science behind the fiction!
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New Dorp Beach, 2011. Digging into my archives for a new @nyc_h2o walk, exploring the layers of demolished history on Staten Island's waterfront. Remnants from an abandoned hospital, bulldozed bungalows, and de-mapped streets can still be found today. eventbrite.com/e/cedar-grove…
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#BookTalk The Doomsday Show @AlpertMark In this action-packed environmental thriller from the internationally bestselling author of #FinalTheory, a good-hearted climate activist must stop terrorists from assassinating the worst fossil-fuel tycoons. amzn.to/3STct6Y
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Talked about that trajectory for in-your-face climate activism Friday with @AlpertMark @WanderingGaia & longtime anti-corporate prankster Igor Vamos of @theyesmen! nitter.gq/Revkin/status/15863307…
Every time you see excited Silicon Valley or hedge fund types pushing self-preservation strategies facing the #climateemergency, reply with this amazing 2006 Survivaball tech from @Halliburton - oops, I mean @theyesmen. Full vid is in this post: revkin.substack.com/p/amid-p…
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Hope security let him stay glued for 13 hours. What's next from climate extremists? Join me Friday 1pm US ET with @AlpertMark, whose book "The Doomsday Show" charts where climate extremism is bound: earth.columbia.edu/videos/vi… Also Igor Vamos of @theyesmen, author @WanderingGaia!
BREEK - Meisje met de parel van Johannes Vermeer besmeurd in #Mauritshuis.
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Talking about where edge-pushing climate activism may go next on Friday 10/28 1pm ET with @theyesmen co-founder Igor Vamos, Doomsday Show author @AlpertMark and Nomad Century author @WanderingGaia! earth.columbia.edu/videos/vi…
It's a long way from roadblocks & museum food fights to kidnapping fossil tycoons - or is it? As the line between #climatecrisis reactions & fiction erodes, join me Fri. 10/28 1pm ET with @AlpertMark, who's gone from #scicomm to #clifi. Details shortly: revkin.substack.com 1/
Dodging the Apocalypse Episode 99: “How I Saved the World” “Imagine 5,000 mirrors in deep space, each reflecting light from the Sun onto a disk of PV panels, 2 km wide. It’s always on—what we need to get rid of gas and coal plants...” @AlpertMark (Anthro) anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
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Dodging the Apocalypse Episode 99: “How I Saved the World” “Imagine 5,000 mirrors in deep space, each reflecting light from the Sun onto a disk of PV panels, 2 km wide. It’s always on—what we need to get rid of gas and coal plants...” @AlpertMark (Anthro) anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
Join us tonight @ 6:00pm at @TheMysterious to celebrate the recent publication of @AlpertMark’s THE DOOMSDAY SHOW! Get more info & order a signed copy here: mysteriousbookshop.com/produ… – at Manhattan, NY
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Panel Master Sam Octavius and panelists Mark Alpert, J.D. Barker, David Holtzman, Camille Minichino, Drew Murray, and Kira Peikoff discuss Technology in Thrillers in this #thrillerfest2022 panel! – at Manhattan, NY
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"Dodging the Apocalypse." Funny/dark story from Mark Albert. anthropocenemagazine.org/202… via @AnthropoceneMag
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Creative writing prof. @princetonarts Yiyun Li talks with #PrincetonAlumni authors and primetime producers Lisa Gornick ’77, @AlpertMark ’82, Janice Johnston ’92, @rakeshsatyal ’02 and E. Lily Yu ’12. 🔗 bit.ly/39gJl8I
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Check out @AlpertMark's short story DODGING THE APOCALYPSE in @AnthropoceneMag, part of their #ClimateParable series. Mark's environmental thriller, THE DOOMSDAY SHOW, will be out in October 2022. Available for preorder now! anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
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Escape reality in a #book ! DARK MATTER - #scifi anthology Check out the book #trailer iwsganthologies.blogspot.com… @forestjournaler @CDGallantKing @StephWolmarans @CharlesKowalski @KimMannix @OlgaGodim @AlpertMark @DenizBevan @ElizbethMueller @TheIWSG
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“Silverberg’s stories transform alien planets and parallel universes into concrete realities that readers can inhabit and enjoy.” Thanks to @NYJournalofBook & reviewer/author @AlpertMark for a great review of Voyagers: Twelve Journeys through Space & Time shar.es/aoLbc8
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