Michael Shaara

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1958-08-29

Active to

2009-06-25

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Listeners

102

Total plays

2,122

Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced the same way) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division prior to the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s,

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 88,512x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,837x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,835x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,586x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,551x

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Quotes

• “And if it all has no meaning, if there really is Nobody Above who really gives a damn, if there are really no rules, still, a man can make his own rules and with luck he can get by.”
• “They are volunteers: last of the great volunteer armies, for the draft is beginning that summer in the North. They have lost faith in their leaders but not in themselves.”
• “"General Meade has his son as adjutant." "That's different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield."”
• “But he was fighting for the dignity of man and in that way he was fighting for himself. If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and lacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as a foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.”
• “Some of us volunteered to fight for Union. Some came mainly because we were bored at home and this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came... because it was the right thing to do.”
• “"Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here's a place to build a home. It isn't the land-there's always more land. it's the idea that we all have value, you and me, we're worth something more than the dirt. I never saw dirt I'd die for, but I'm not asking you to come join us and fight for dirt. What we're all fighting for, in the end, is each other."”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Michael

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Jersey City

Place of death

Tallahassee

Occupation

science fiction writer

Educated at

Rutgers University

Employer

Florida State University

Languages spoken

American English

Official website

www.jeffshaara.com

Image

Michael Shaara.jpg

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