Benjamin Rosenbaum
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Benjamin Rosenbaum is a computer programmer and science fiction writer, born in New York but raised in Arlington, Virginia. He attended Brown University and later received degrees in computer science and religious studies. He lived in Switzerland for a time and married a Swiss woman named Esther. They have a daughter named Aviva and a son named Noah. He later returned to Virginia, where the family lives now, and where he designed software for the National Science Foundation and the D.C. city government.
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 Magazine, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. It has also appeared on the websites Strange Horizons and Infinite Matrix, and in various year's best anthologies.
His story "Embracing-the-New" (2004) (online) was nominated for Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and "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. His story "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). He released the story under a Creative Commons license which allows others to modify the work.
[edit] External links
- Benjamin Rosenbaum's Page, the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and the texts of a number of his stories.
- Interview excerpt from the October 2005 issue of Locus magazine.
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