Michael A. Burstein

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Michael A. Burstein (* 1970 in New York City , New York ) is an American science fiction - writers .

biography

Michael A. Burstein was born in New York City and grew up in Forest Hills, Queens borough . He attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and went on to Harvard College , where he was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. He graduated from Harvard in 1991 with a degree in physics . In 1993 he earned a Masters in Physics from Boston University . In 1994 Burstein attended the Clarion workshop . In 1995 he studied comic writing with Dennis O'Neil at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Burstein has worked as a science teacher at all levels and published scientific textbooks. He has lectured at various science fiction conventions, in libraries and in front of students at MIT and Harvard. He is an active member of the science fiction fandom.

Burstein lives in Brookline , Massachusetts with his wife, Nomi . Their first two children, twins, were born in 2009. He and his wife wrote the Brookline Parent column on the Patch Media website. Burnstein is President of SP3, a society that aims to keep Pluto in its designation as a planet . The group of astronomy enthusiasts was founded in spring 2006.

Writing career

Burnstein's first published story, TeleAbsence , appeared in the July 1995 issue of Astounding . It was nominated for the Hugo Award and voted Best Short Story of 1995 by Astounding readers . Two years later he won the John W. Campbell Award for best newcomer at Worldcon 1997.

Over the next few years he was nominated for the Hugo Award several times, for example for Broken Symmetry , Cosmic Corkscrew , Kaddish for the Last Survivor , Spaceships , Paying It Forward , Decisions , Time Ablaze , Seventy-Five Years and TelePresence , in addition for the Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Award for Reality Check . His short novel Sanctuary was voted best short novel in 2005 by the readers of Astounding and was nominated for the Nebula.

Burnstein's collection I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein was published in November 2008. In February 2010, the collection's cover story was nominated for the 2009 Nebula Awards as best short story. Burstein currently contributes columns to the science fiction entertainment website SFScope.

From 1998 to 2000, Burnstein was secretary to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . He chaired the 2008 Nebula Awards Jury. On January 1, 2014, he took office as the first permanent president of the Society for Advancement of Speculative Storytelling, Inc. (SASS). After a year he resigned. Burstein has been news correspondent for the Jewish Advocate since 2014 .

Public office

Burstein is an elected councilor and curator of the Brookline, Massachusetts public library. On February 8, 2012, Burstein announced the formation of an exploratory committee in the United States House of Representatives on behalf of the Democrats in the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts, but it did not come into being.

Awards

  • 1997: John W. Campbell Award for best newcomer

bibliography

Novels

  • not published in German . (American English: The Omega Egg (Part 16 of 17): Conversation with His Future Self . 2006.).

Story collections

  • not published in German . (American English: I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein . 2008.).

Short stories

  • The Spider in the Hairdo , 1997
  • Cosmic Corkscrew , 1998
  • In Space, No One Can Hear , 1998
  • The Parallels of Penzance , 1998 (with Stanley Schmidt )
  • Hunger , 1998
  • Nor Through Inaction , 1998 (with Charles Ardai )
  • Vanishing Tears , 1999
  • The Quantum Teleporter , 2000
  • Escape Horizon , 2000
  • Debunking the Faith Healer , 2000 (with Lawrence D. Weinberg )
  • If Ben Franklin Had Gotten His Way , 2000
  • Kaddish for the Last Survivor , 2000
  • Cold Calculations , 2001
  • Spaceships , 2001
  • Bug out! , 2001 (with Shane Tourtellotte )
  • The Great Miracle , 2001
  • Reflections in Black Granite , 2002 (with Mike Resnick )
  • In Her Image , 2002
  • Paying It Forward , 2003
  • The New Breed , 2003
  • Lifeblood , 2003
  • Decisions , 2004
  • Time Ablaze , 2004
  • Seventy-Five Years , 2005
  • Pedagogy , 2005
  • Sanctuary , 2005
  • Redemption in the Quantum Foam , 2006
  • The Soldier Within , 2007
  • Things That Aren't , 2007 (with Robert Greenberger )
  • The Wizard's Legacy , 2007
  • Empty Spaces , 2008
  • I Remember the Future , 2008
  • Hope , 2010
  • Gravity's Dance , 2013
  • Sofer Pete , 2017 (with Thomas Easton )

Einstein-Rosen Bridge

  • Broken Symmetry , 1997
  • Absent Friends , 1998
  • Reality Check , 1999

Probability Zero

  • Sentimental Value , 1995
  • Heisenberg's Magazine , 1997
  • The Cure , 1997
  • Whose Millennium? , 2000
  • The Turing Testers , 2000 (with Joseph J. Lazzaro )

TeleAbsence

  • TeleAbsence , 1995
  • TelePresence , 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Michael A. Burstein. In: mabfan.com. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ SFWA ( Memento from September 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ "Footprints in the Sand" , Burstein, Michael A. Mimosa Magazin , No. 30, pp. 66-67.
  4. ↑ SFScope ( Memento from July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ 2009 Nebula Award election . SFWA. 2010. Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Via SFScope . SFScope . Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ Via the Nebula Committee . In: Nebula Awards . SFWA. 2009. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  8. ^ Society for the Advancement of Speculative Storytelling, Inc. website.
  9. ^ Burstein President of the SASS . Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  10. ^ Grahame Turner: Brookline Library Trustee Michael Burstein Exploring Congressional Run . In: Brookline Patch . Patch.com. February 8, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Burstein, Michael A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City