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Mac Tonnies
Mac Tonnies (20 August 1975 – 22 October 2009〔) was an American author and blogger whose work focused on futurology, transhumanism and paranormal topics. Tonnies grew up in Independence, Missouri, and attended William Chrisman High School and Ottawa University.〔Ortega, Tony. (Space Case: Attention, aliens: Please return our science-fiction writer. ). ''The Pitch''. November 25, 2004〕 He lived in Kansas City, Missouri. Tonnies had an active online presence and a "small, but devoted" readership, but supported himself by working at Starbucks and other nine-to-five jobs. In 2009 he died of cardiac arrhythmia at the age of 34.
== Books ==
His first book, a collection of science fiction short stories titled ''Illumined Black'', was published by Phantom Press Publications in 1995, when Tonnies was in college.〔〔http://books.google.com/books?id=tWdbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22illumined+black%22&dq=%22illumined+black%22〕 It carried a cover blurb by Bruce Sterling and was positively reviewed in ''Booklist''.〔 His second book, ''After the Martian Apocalypse'', was published by Simon & Schuster in 2004.〔http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Mac-Tonnies/21107599〕 His third book, ''The Cryptoterrestrials'', was published posthumously by Anomalist Books in 2010.〔http://www.anomalistbooks.com/tonnies.html〕
In November, 2012, Redstar Books published the first volume of ''Posthuman Blues'', which contains excerpts from Tonnies' long-running blog of the same name.〔http://redstarfilmtv.com/books/non-fiction/the-posthuman-blues/〕 In the introduction, historian (Aaron John Gulyas ) writes that, "''Posthuman Blues'' is of a piece with the Lost Generation of the 1920s and the Beat Generation of the 1950s. Tonnies spoke for his generation with passion, eloquence, and a rare insight."
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