Mitchell J. Rycus, emeritus professor of urban planning has published eleven novels and four novellas. His first novel, "Rub up: Musings of a Navy Corpsman," was an Ann Arbor best seller in October, 2007. In January, 2010 his second novel, "The Noble Profession of Leaf Chasing," was released. His third novel, "The Soil Is Dead," a saga about some mysterious slugs that could destroy the world, was released in 2012. Rycus' fourth novel, "T" was released in January, 2013. A favorable Kirkus Review for "T" can be found at; https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mitchell-j-rycus/t/. His fifth novel, "The Artist," came out in Jan. 2015, his sixth, "Max's Fools," came out in Oct. 2015, his seventh, "The Crooked Silk Road," came out in March 2017, "...and, Her Name Will be Called Hagit," came out in May 2018. "The Transmogrification of Esmeralda Bonnie Watkins," his first venture into Sci-fi was released in April 2019, and "The Sad Saga of Angus MacTavish," a tale of foreign intrigue and murder was published in November 2019. In 2020 he published, "Nostalgious," another Sci-fi book about Artificial Intelligence.
In May 2021, "A Death in Detroit," a novella about a Jewish family in 1946 Detroit, caught up in a murder investigation, was published. His second novella "Not With a Whimper," an end of world, and a start of a new world story, was published in April of 2022. "Paperback Writer," was published in October of 2022; a novella about deception among writers. All three novellas were published in one book in October of 2022. "The Rapacious Elegiac," about the owner of a unique business in San Francisco, was released in June 2023.
Rycus' career has run the gamut from aerospace engineering to academia. Before starting his writing career Rycus served as Chairman of the University of Michigan's Urban Planning Program in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning from 1986 till 1992. Prior to his emeritus status in June of 2000, he was the Co-director of the Studies in Urban Security Group, which for almost twenty years did consulting for a number of municipal agencies throughout the United States. Since 1986 Rycus has traveled around the world studying crime reduction methods for planners. He has carried out crime reduction research at the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Central England, Birmingham, UK, and the United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs in Vienna, Austria, as well as a number of other organizations throughout the world. Professor Rycus has authored, co-authored, or presented over 100 technical reports, articles, book-chapters, and scholarly papers.
For more information about Mitchell Rycus visit his home site:
https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/mitchell-j-rycus/
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