Mark L. Van Name
Mark L. Van Name | |
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| Born | March 14, 1955 Florida, US |
| Occupation | Author, technology consultant |
| Education | BS Applied Mathematics-Computer Science, MS Computer Science |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Notable works | One Jump Ahead |
| Notable awards | Compton Crook Award |
| Website | |
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Mark L. Van Name (born March 14, 1955) is an American science fiction writer and technology consultant. As of 2009, Van Name lives in North Carolina.
About
[edit]With John Kessel, Van Name co-founded the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop in 1985, and in 1996 he, Kessel, and Richard Butner edited an anthology of stories written there, called Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, including one of his own stories.[1]
Van Name's first professionally published science fiction short story was "My Sister, My Self", in 1984, in the anthology Isaac Asimov's Tomorrow's Voices.[2] His first novel, One Jump Ahead, was published by Baen Books in 2007,[3] and won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres in 2008.[4] It is the first book in the Jon and Lobo series, of which he published another four books until 2012.
In 2009, he premiered a stand-up comedy routine at Balticon, the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention.[5]
Van Name has worked in the information technology field for over 30 years, at one time serving as Vice President of Product Testing for Ziff-Davis, and has written many technical articles for print and on-line publications including Computer Shopper and PC Week. He currently is CEO of a technology assessment company, Principled Technologies, in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.[6][7][8][9]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]Jon and Lobo Series
- One Jump Ahead (June 2007) ISBN 978-1-4165-2085-6
- Slanted Jack (July 2008) ISBN 978-1-4165-5549-0
- Overthrowing Heaven (June 2009) ISBN 978-1-4391-3267-8
- Children No More (August 2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-3365-1
- No Going Back (May 2012) ISBN 978-1-4516-3810-3
- Jump Gate Twist (July 2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-3370-5, a trade paperback omnibus re-issue of the novels One Jump Ahead and Slanted Jack accompanied by 4 essays and the short stories My Sister, My Self and Lobo, Actually
Short stories
[edit]- "My Sister, My Self in Isaac Asimov’s Tomorrow’s Voices ed. Editors of Isaac Asimov’s (Dial 0-385-27998-1, Apr ’84
- "Happy Birthday" with Jack McDevitt in The Further Adventures of the Joker ed. Martin H. Greenberg (Bantam 0-553-28531-9, Mar ’90
- "TV Time" in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v15 # 4 & 5, No.169 & 170, April 1991] ed. Gardner R. Dozois
- "Burning Up" in When the Music’s Over ed. Lewis Shiner (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28985-3, May ’91
- "The Ten Thousand Things" in Jim Baen's Universe Vol.1, No.6. Also in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe II.
- "Desert Rain" with Pat Murphy in Full Spectrum 3, ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
- "Broken Bits" in Future Weapons of War, Joe Haldeman and Martin H. Greenberg, Editors
- "Missing Connections" in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology ed. John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name & Richard Butner (Tor 0-312-86090-0, Jan ’96)
- "Basic Training" in Armageddon ed. David Drake, Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg (Baen 0-671-87876-X, May ’98)
Anthologies
[edit]- Transhuman (2008) (with T K F Weisskopf)
- The Wild Side (2011)
Non-fiction
[edit]- Windows Performance Secrets (1998) (with Richard Butner)
- 2001: The Personal Computer Article in New Destinies, Vol. IX/Fall 1990 ed. Jim Baen (Baen 0-671-2016-3, Sep ’90
References
[edit]- ^ "Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology". Archived from the original on 2011-01-30. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ "Stories, Listed by Author".
- ^ "Mark's Journal".
- ^ "Compton Crook Award Winners". Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- ^ "Balticon Podcast » Promo 1 for Balticon 43 – Mark van Name Event". Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ "Object | Encyclopedia.com".
- ^ Duggal, Sudesh M.; Popovich, Paul R. (1990). "An example of management training in expert systems: SBA loan evaluation system". Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGBDP conference on Trends and directions in expert systems - SIGBDP '90. pp. 588–618. doi:10.1145/97709.97754. ISBN 0897914163. S2CID 17297793.
- ^ "Authors | Mark L. Van Name | Jim Baen's Universe". Archived from the original on 2009-10-24. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ http://pl745.pairlitesite.com/programming/bios11.php [permanent dead link]
External links
[edit]- http://www.markvanname.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100102034004/http://baen.com/Interviews/vintMLVanName.htm
- Mark L. Van Name at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
| International | |
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| National | |
| Other | |
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American science fiction writers
- American technology writers
- Living people
- 1955 births
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers