Robert G Pielke's Biography

ROBERT G. PlELKE

710 Purdue Drive

Claremont, CA 91711

(909) 624-2965

rpielke@ca.rr.com

http://www.bobpielke.com

EDUCATION

• Writers Workshops at UCLA: fiction; screenplays; film & book reviews; features
• National Endowment For the Humanities Seminar in Film Criticism at UCLA
• Ph.D. (Claremont) in Social Ethics
• M.Div. (Gettysburg) in Religious Studies
• BA (Maryland) in History Politics Philosophy

BOOKS

• THE MISSION - alternate history (iUniverse, 2001) [Winner of the Editors Choice Award at the San Diego State Writers Conference.]
• HITLER THE CAT GOES WEST - satirical fiction (Aegina Press, 1995; iUniverse, 2001)
• CRITIQUING MORAL ARGUMENTS - academic (University Press of America, 1992)
• YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: ROCK MUSIC IN AMERICAN CULTURE - examination and interpretation (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1986 and reprinted by Thompson Learning, 2001)

SCREENPLAYS

• BONES OF THE SHROUD: A romantic adventure with mystical overtones. An unlikely couple discovers the creator of the Shroud of Turin, who turns out to be an Arab jinn ‑ once better known as Jesus of Nazareth. (optioned once)
• DISTANT SPRING: An adventure in the far distant future, where the dying remnants of the human race are struggling to survive. To do so, they need to discover what caused their current peril in the distant past. Music becomes the medium of communication with the past, but there are some survivors more interested in not knowing.

CURRENT PROJECTS

• A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM (Alternate History/Science Fiction)
• BONES OF THE SHROUD (Grand Fantasy; novel based on screenplay)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Occasional Teaching - online & workshops
• Professor of Philosophy -- logic and ethics (George Mason Univ.; Univ. of Phoenix; El Camino College) retired!!

SHORT FICTION

• "Good Rockin' Tonight" in HARD COPIES: THE FICTION ANTHOLOGY (Spring, 1988)
• "The Interview" in PHOEBE: George Mason University Literary Magazine (vol. 11, Nos. 2&3,1982)

SOFTWARE

• EthicsWorks 2001" [multimedia, CD-ROM] (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2001)
• EthicsWorks for Today's Moral Issues" (P.D.C. and Mayfield Publishers, 1998)
• EthicsWorks (Philosophy Documentation Center, 1997)

NONFICTION ARTICLES

• "The Right Blob for the Right Job" in CINEFEX (No. 36, November, 1988)
• "Happy Hours in the Valley" in VALLEY OAK NEWS (Feb. 2, 1988)
• "Romancing with the Unlikeliest AIDS of All" in VALLEY OAK NEWS (December 29, 1987)
• Various Film Reviews for VIDEO UPDATE (1985-86)
• "Saturday Night Live" in COMEDY TECHNIQUES FOR WRITERS & PERFORMERS (Lawhead, 1984)
• "Star Wars Vs 2001" in EXTRAPOLATION (Summer, 1983)
• "The Rejection of Theism in Feminist Science Fiction" in THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION AND PHILOSOPHY (Greenwood Press, 1983)
• "Grokking the Stranger" in PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT SCIENCE FICTION (Nelson-Hall, 1982)
• "Androgyny and Sexuality" in SOCIAL ETHICS: MORALITY & SOCIAL POLICY (McGraw-Hill 1987)
• "Humans and Aliens" in MOSAIC (XIII/3-4, 1980)
• Occasional local newspaper articles (1980's)