Miriam Seidel

Miriam Seidel’s novel, The Speed of Clouds, is a genre-spanning story in the world of science-fiction fandom. Her new book, written as Mir Seidel, is Tesla’s Opera: The real, stranger-than-fiction Nikola Tesla. It tells about the opera inspired by the visionary inventor that she wrote the libretto for, performed in Belgrade, New York, and Philadelphia, and it aims to reveal the mythic Tesla hidden behind the electric car that’s named for him. Her SFF stories and essays have appeared in Bourbon Penn, NY Review of Science Fiction, Calyx, and elsewhere, and she’s written about the arts for Art in America, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dance magazine, and other publications. More at miriamseidel dot com.