Benjamin Rosenbaum

Benjamin Rosenbaum

Benjamin Rosenbaum is an American science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction writer and computer programmer, whose stories have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the BSFA award, and the World Fantasy Award.

Born in New York but raised in Arlington, Virginia, he received degrees in computer science and religious studies from Brown University. He currently lives in Basel, Switzerland with his wife Esther and children Aviva and Noah.

His past software development positions include designing software for the National Science Foundation, designing software for the D.C. city government, and being one of the founders of Digital Addiction (which created the online game Sanctum).

His first professionally published story appeared in 2001. His work has been published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", "Asimov's Science Fiction", "Harper's", "Nature", and "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern". It has also appeared on the websites "Strange Horizons" and "Infinite Matrix", and in various year's best anthologies. Rosenbaum's short stories have most recently been published together in the collection "The Ant King and Other Stories", published by Small Beer Press.

elected Stories

*"Anthroptic" (2007) [http://www.anthroptic.org (online)] collaboration with visual artist Ethan Ham
* "A Siege of Cranes"(2006) [http://www.allstarstories.com/rosenbaum-siege.html (online)] was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
*"Embracing-the-New" (2004) [http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/stories/embracing.the.new.html (online)] was nominated for Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
*"Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum" (2004) [http://www.allstarstories.com/rosenbaum-notes.html (online)] was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
*"Start the Clock" (2004) [http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/stories/start.the.clock.html (online)] , was written for the book project "Exquisite Corpuscle", where each contributor produced something inspired by the previous contributor's piece (they weren't shown the preceding pieces). It was nominated for a Theodore Sturgeon Award.
*"The House Beyond Your Sky"(2006) [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060904/house-f.shtml (online)] was nominated for a BSFA Award and a Hugo Award.

He released all six stories under Creative Commons licenses, in the latter three cases allowing others to modify the work.

External links

* [http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com Benjamin Rosenbaum's Page] , the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and the texts of a number of his stories.
* [http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/10Rosenbaum.html Interview excerpt] from the October 2005 issue of "Locus" magazine.


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