Dr. Matthew Marullo holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Music Theory and Composition from Boston University and has taught professionally for 27 years. He is the author of four published novels: The Octave Displacement (2006), Gludman's Proof (2013), Till Times Are Done (2019), and Welcome To Opine (2022).

Reviewers such as Foreword, Blueink, and Kirkus call his novels "unique," "clever," "intriguing," as well as "expertly" and "masterfully" written. Welcome To Opine won first place for science fiction in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards and a Silver Award for Reader Views. The novel was awarded a "Golden Quill Read" in Book Viral Reviews, and featured in their article about science fiction satire.

Dr. Marullo also runs an educational podcast about great classical and film music, Dr. Music. Visit his website at matthewmarullo.com.

Nine billion years into the future, the rogue planet Earth is captured by a blue dwarf star in another galaxy, eventually culminating in the rise of Homo Sapiens 2.0. Imagine a member of the ancient humans had buried deep in the earth a quantum computer containing a vast, digitized compendium of humankind's history and achievements, all preserved within petabytes of quantum memory.

This new human civilization, calling their planet Opine and themselves the Opinions, the first "I" pronounced with a long vowel, were granted the valuable benefit of hindsight. After spending decades studying "Ancient" history, the Opinions endeavored to expunge selfishness from the human genome through a genetic therapy called the Self Suppressor.

But what happens when one person develops a natural resistance to the therapy? Would he then represent a threat to the gene pool? Will the Opinions be able to correct this genetic anomaly, or perhaps adapt it, in the interest of regaining a sacrificed part of their humanity?

One voice may know the answer. The voice of the man who originally buried the quantum computer billions of years ago…

Published 2022 by Marullo Publications.

When solitary, introspective Angus Wendell wakes up in his Merrick, Long Island apartment, he doesn't expect to find a strange, young, beautiful woman named Sylvia asleep on his old worn out sofa.

She didn't know where she was. She didn't know how she got there. And never before in her life has she ever seen Angus. As Angus will eventually discover, Sylvia knows shocking details that connect to his past. It is a past Angus never knew existed.

A past with a rare, lost historical treasure locked away for decades in a safe. A past with a sabotaged bequest in a will, a thread of enigmatic riddles within. A past with a museum that never should have fallen into the corrupt hands now running its auction house.

And when these two lives meet, it is a past where ripples in time become gigantic waves that collide with anyone in their path.A unique tapestry of humor, mystery, fantasy, and compelling drama, Till Times Are Done is a heartwarming, suspenseful tale about how true friendship conquers all barriers&emdash;including time.

Published 2019 by Marullo Publications.

Freelance investigative reporter Colin Traiger receives a cryptic four-line poem from the great mathematician, Frederick Gludman. Colin doesn't know it yet, but these four lines contain all the clues to unraveling the greatest news story he will ever write.

A story about two rival biotech companies, one of them conspiring to murder the project leader of the most revolutionary advance in preventive medicine ever conceived. A story about a malevolent priest in Colin's hometown working with a scientist to infect parishioners with a bacterium dating back to the 13th century. A story about how four geniuses collaborate to solve one of the oldest mysteries known to mankind&emdash;a proof that, if solved, would change the world forever. A story about how all of these strands become intertwined when Colin learns the shocking truth about how his own past is connected to it all.

Now nobody is safe, including Colin. Because people will die, and kill, for Gludman's Proof.

Published 2013 by Marullo Publications.

Mike Chessel is a musical genius who has discovered the Cosmic Notes, a musical composition whose notes vibrate sympathetically with microscopic structures called "strings," opening up a passage to Antiearth, Earth's cosmic twin.

Now humans from forty-two thousand years into the future want those Cosmic Notes. They know the Notes can be used to detonate a weapon far more terrible than ever conceived. To make matters worse, Mike Chessel had played one wrong note making the trip to Antiearth. The physical world around him is now beginning to twist and warp.

Anything could happen. Anything. The Octave Displacement reaches beyond the fringes of imagination in a tale interweaving suspense, science fiction, humor, romance, mystery and a chilling surprise ending.

Published 2006 by iUniverse.