Mark L. Van name

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Mark L. Van Name (* 14. March 1955 in Florida ) is an American science fiction - writer and technology consultant. He has lived in North Carolina since 2009 .

biography

Van Name co-founded the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop with John Kessel in 1985 . In 1996, John Kessel, Richard Butner and Van Name published an anthology of novels written in the workshop. The title is Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology and also received a story from Van Name.

His first professional work was the short story My Sister, My Self in the anthology Isaac Asimov's Tomorrow's Voices in 1984 . His first novel, One Jump Ahead , was published by Baen Books in 2007 and won the Compton Crook Award for best novel in 2008 . It was the first novel in the Jon and Lobo series, followed by four more by 2012.

Van Name has been in the information technology field for over 30 years, previously serving as Vice President Product Testing at Ziff-Davis , writing a large number of IT articles for print and online media such as Computer Shopper and PC Week . He is currently CEO of the technology valuation company Principled Technologies in the Research Triangle in North Carolina.

Awards

  • 2008: Compton Crook Award for Best Novel for One Jump Ahead

bibliography

Novels

Jon and Lobo series

  • not published in German . (American English: One Jump Ahead . 2007.).
  • not published in German . (American English: Slanted Jack . 2008.).
  • not published in German . (American English: Overthrowing Heaven . 2009.).
  • not published in German . (American English: Children No More . 2010.).
  • not published in German . (American English: No Going Back . 2012.).

Short stories

  • My Sister, My Self , 1984
  • Happy Birthday , 1990 (with Jack McDevitt )
  • TV Time , 1991
  • Burning Up , 1991
  • Desert Rain , 1991 with Pat Murphy
  • Missing Connections , 1996
  • Basic training , 1998
  • Boar Lake , 2004
  • Broken Bits , 2007
  • The Ten Thousand Things , 2007 (with Pat Murphy)
  • Reunion , 2008
  • The Long Dark Night of Diego Chan , 2011
  • All That's Left , 2015
  • Another Solution , 2018

Published anthologies

  • not published in German . (American English: Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology . 1996.).
  • not published in German . (American English: Transhuman . 2008.).
  • not published in German . (American English: The Wild Side . 2011.).
  • not published in German . (American English: Onward, Drake! 2015.).

Non-fiction

  • Windows Performance Secrets , 1998 (with Richard Butner)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology . Archived from the original on January 30, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ Van Name zu "How I sold One Jump Ahead" (English)
  3. ^ Compton Crook Award winner . Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Van Name at Baens Universe . Archived from the original on October 24, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  5. ↑ http://pl745.pairlitesite.com/programming/bios11.phpTemplate: dead link /! ... nourl  ( page no longer available )
personal data
SURNAME Van Name, Mark L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Florida