David Marusek (born January 21, 1951, in Buffalo, New York)[citation needed] is an American author.
He became serious about a writing career around 1986; success began soon after he attended Clarion West Workshop in 1992.
[1][2] His first novel, Counting Heads (a much bigger expansion of "...Joy"), was published by Tor Books in 2005, and was the subject of Dave Itzkoff's debut "Across the Universe" column in the March 5, 2006 The New York Times.
[3] A second novel titled Mind Over Ship (a sequel to Counting Heads) was released by Tor Books on January 20, 2009.
A short story collection, Getting to Know You, was published by Subterranean Press in 2007 and was reprinted by Del Rey Books in 2008.