Marshall Ryan Maresca Collection

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TxAM-CRS C000486

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Marshall Ryan Maresca Collection

Date(s)

  • 2005 - 2020 (Creation)

Extent

4 boxes

Name of creator

(1973-)

Biographical history

Marshall Ryan Maresca was born and raised in upstate New York, and attended Penn State, where he studied film production. He is a longtime resident of Austin, TX, where he has been writing science fiction and fantasy for a number of years. His first published work was the SF story "Jump the Black", which appeared in the 2013 Rick Klaw-edited anthology Rayguns Over Texas. In 2015 he published the first of his ongoing Maradaine series: The Thorn of Dentonhill, an urban fantasy of thieves and dashing rogues set in the lively city of Maradaine. Thorn was nominated for the 2016 Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel.

Since then, Maresca has continued to write a number of different series all set within the Maradaine universe: Maradaine, starring magic university student/Robin Hood-like vigilante Veranix Calbert; The Maradaine Constabulary, featuring detectives Satrine Rainey and Minox Welling, who solve crimes on Maradaine's mean streets; The Streets of Maradaine, about the Holver Alley Crew, a gang of misfit street criminals out to protect their homes and territory; and Maradaine Elite, featuring Dayne Heldrin and Jerinne Fendall, two members of an elite order of Maradaine soldiery enmeshed in crime and conspiracy. A new series, Maradaine Saga, was launched in 2022 with the release of the novella "The Mystical Murders of Yin Mara". A standalone Maradaine novel, An Unintended Voyage, was released in late 2021.

In early 2021, Maresca published a new standalone work, a 'dieselpunk' fantasy titled The Velocity of Revolution, set in the ravaged magical city of Ziaparr.

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Scope and content

This collection consists of manuscripts and working files from Texas fantasy and science fiction writer Marshall Ryan Maresca, most well-known for his ongoing Maradaine series, which contains several sub-series of novels, all set in and around the fantastical city of Maradaine. Materials in the collections include drafts in various stages of many of his works, as well as proofs and working notes.

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Series I: Manuscripts. Arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Series II: Working Files.
Series III: Other Materials.

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No restrictions.

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These materials are stored offsite and require additional time for retrieval.

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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  • English

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Processed by Jeremy Brett. Finding aid created by Jeremy Brett.

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