Lawrence M. Schoen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lawrence M. Schoen

Lawrence Michael Schoen (born July 27, 1959 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American writer, Klingonist, and psychologist. As an author, he is best known for his science fiction cycle around the space- traveling stage hypnotist Amazing Conroy .

Life

Schoen grew up in California , where he attended high school in Culver City . He studied psychology , linguistics and psycholinguistics at California State University in Northridge , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1983. In 1985 he obtained his master’s degree and received his doctorate in cognitive psychology in 1987 . After receiving his doctorate, he taught psychology at colleges in Sarasota , Florida ( New College of Florida , 1987–1989), Lake Forest , Illinois (1989–1992) and in Chestnut Hill near Philadelphia (1993–1996).

Schoen is a globally recognized Klingonist, so an expert on the constructed language Klingon , resulting from the Star Trek - the universe has evolved, and one of the few people who speak fluent Klingon. Since 1991 he has been director of the Klingon Language Institute, which he founded . In this capacity, he attended meetings, held language courses, edited the translations of several works by Shakespeare ( Hamlet and What You Want ), the Epic of Gilgamesh and Laozi's Daodejing , and organized an annual conference of Klingon speakers.

Schoen's first science fiction story Past Waves appeared in Strange Plasma magazine in 1990 . By 2018 he had published around 50 short stories, including The Moment , which was nominated for the Hugo Award in 2010 . Four other stories by Schoen were nominated for the Nebula Award . Schoen is best known for his cycle about Amazing Conroy , a stage hypnotist who, together with the alien Reggie, an omnivorous and oxygen-farting Buffalito. By 2018, two novels in the Buffalito sub-series and four volumes of short stories had been published in the Conroy cycle . In 2007 Schoen was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer .

In 2015 Schoen started a new cycle with Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard . Barsk takes place in a distant future when humanity has disappeared and various races that have evolved from highly bred, intelligent animals have succeeded them and spread across the galaxy. One of these breeds is the Fant, an anthropomorphic elephant breed that was relegated to the ghetto planet Barsk a long time ago. There they developed a number of coveted drugs, including Koph, with which it is possible to communicate with the recently deceased and learn their secrets. At the center of the story is Fant Jorl, who can talk to the dead and learns an explosive secret from his deceased best friend. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2016 and won the Cóyotl Award , a prize for furry literature. In 2018, The Moons of Barsk was the second volume in the series.

From 2002 to 2018, Schoen was Head of Research and Analytics at Wedge Medical Center in Philadelphia. Since 2013 he has offered treatment of creative disorders in authors (writer's block ) through hypnosis .

In 2006 Schoen founded the small publisher Paper Golem , which is dedicated to the task of publishing new and promising authors in the SF genre on the one hand and providing a platform for the otherwise neglected short novel (20,000–40,000 words) on the other. In Paper Golem the anthology series published Alembicl and Cucurbital . Schoen's weekly blog Eating Authors has been running since 2011 , in which he asks authors about their work, their (eating) habits and their most memorable meal while eating (“tell me about your most memorable meal”).

Schoen has been working on a voluntary basis for the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) since 2008 , until 2016 as the Elections Officer responsible for elections, and since then as Director at Large . In 2016 he received the Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award for his services to SFWA .

Schoen lives with his wife in Blue Bell , near Philadelphia.

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Conroyverse
  • Buffalogic, Inc .: Tales of the Amazing Conroy # 1 (2003, collection)
  • Buffalogenesis: Tales of the Amazing Conroy, # 2 (2006, collection)
  • Buffalogistics: Tales of the Amazing Conroy # 3 (2008, collection)
  • Buffalito Destiny (2009)
  • Buffalito Contingency (2011)
  • Buffalito Buffet (2012, collection)
  • Trial of the Century (2013)
ReDeus (short stories)
  • Coca Xocolatl (2012)
  • Singing for the Man (2013)
Barsk
  • 1 Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015)
  • 2 The Moons of Barsk (2018)
Vegetable Wars (with Jonathan P. Brazee)
  • 1 Seeds of War: Invasion (2018)
  • 2 Seeds of War: Scorched Earth (2018)
  • 3 Seeds of War: Bitter Harvest (2018)
  • The Seeds of War Trilogy (2018, collective issue from 1–3)
collection
  • Aliens and AIs (2005)
Short stories
  • Past Waves (1990)
  • Euphemism Skin (1999)
  • Thirst for Knowledge (1999)
  • Writer's Block (1999)
  • Brown Bagging (1999)
  • Case Study (2000)
  • jubHa ' (2000)
  • Bugjuice (2000)
  • Buffalo Dogs (2001)
  • Retro virus (2001)
  • Smooth Maneuver (2001)
  • Solitaire (2001)
  • Quantum Pen (2003)
  • Telepathic Intent (2003)
  • The Day After the Census (2003)
  • Bidding the Walrus (2003)
  • The Sky's the Limit (2004)
  • Pidgin (2005)
  • Pun Gazing (2005)
  • Requiem (2005)
  • The Conservation of Thelos (2005)
  • The Matter at Hand (2005)
  • Sweet Potato Pie (2005)
  • The Game of Leaf and Smile (2005)
  • Stations of the Cheeseburger (2005)
  • Take Me to Your Liederkranz (2005)
  • Thinking (2006)
  • A Fool's Death (2006)
  • Cat Futures (2006)
  • Thresher (2007)
  • Fitzwell's Oracle (2007)
  • What Doesn't Stay in Vegas (2007)
  • Gift Time (2008)
  • The Amulet of Winter (2008)
  • Xenosomal Ambulism (2008)
  • The Moment (2009)
  • A Single Shot (2010)
  • The Wrestler and the Spear Fisher (2010)
  • Mars Needs Baby Seals (2010)
  • A Buffalito of Mars (2012)
  • Barry's Tale (2012)
  • Buffalogenesis (2012)
  • Yesterday's Taste (2012)
  • Trial of the Century (2013)
  • Calendrical Regression (2014)
  • Barry's Deal (2017)
Anthologies (as editor)
  • Prime Codex: The Hungry Edge of Speculative Fiction (2007, with Michael Livingston)

Alembical (with Arthur Dorrance)

  • Alembical (2008)
  • Alembical 2 (2010)
  • Alembical 3: A Distillation of Three Novellas (2014)
  • Alembical 4 (2018)

Cucurbital

  • Cucurbital 2 (2011)
  • Cucurbital 3 (2012)

Web links

Wikiquote: Lawrence M. Schoen  - Quotations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lawrence M. Schoen , LinkedIn profile, accessed November 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Lawrence M. Schoen - Press Kit , accessed November 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ Paper Golem LLC , LinkeIn-Profil, accessed November 30, 2018.
  4. ^ Paper Golem , publisher's website, accessed November 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Eating Authors - The Master List , accessed November 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schoen, Lawrence M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoen, Lawrence Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, Klingonist and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois