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Name
  
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Education
  
Brown University

Role
  
Fiction writer

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Born
  
August 23, 1969 (age 54) (
1969-08-23
)
New York, USA

Books
  
Ant King, The House Beyond Your Sky, A Siege of Cranes, Feature Development for Social Networking: A Tor.Com Original

Nominations
  
Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Wiscon 2011, Imaginary Book Club Panel #1


Benjamin Rosenbaum (born August 23, 1969) 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.

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Career

Born in New York but raised in Arlington, Virginia, Rosenbaum received degrees in computer science and religious studies from Brown University.

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. The Ant King and Other Stories, a collection of Rosenbaum's short fiction, was published by Small Beer Press.

Personal life

Rosenbaum currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Esther and children Aviva and Noah.

Selected stories

  • "True Names" (2008) (online), collaboration with Cory Doctorow, was nominated for a Hugo Award.
  • "Anthroptic" (2007) (online) collaboration with visual artist Ethan Ham
  • "A Siege of Cranes"(2006) (online) was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
  • "Embracing-the-New" (2004) (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) (online) was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
  • "Start the Clock" (2004) (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) (online) was nominated for a BSFA Award and a Hugo Award.

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

    References

    Benjamin Rosenbaum Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA