Benjamin Rosenbaum (born August 23, 1969) is an American

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, fantasy, and literary fiction writer and computer programmer, whose stories have been finalists for the

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier ...

, the

Nebula Award The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of prof ...

, the

Theodore Sturgeon Award The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best short science fiction story ...

, the

BSFA award The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members. More recently, ...

, and the

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...

Career

Born in

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but raised in

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, Rosenbaum received degrees in

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and religious studies from Brown University. His past software development positions include designing software for the

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, designing software for the D.C. city government, and being one of the founders of Digital Addiction (which created the online game

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). His first professionally published story appeared in 2001. His work has been published in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Harper's'', ''

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'', and ''McSweeney's Quarterly Concern''. It has also appeared on the websites ''

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'' and '' Infinite Matrix'', and in various year's best anthologies. ''The Ant King and Other Stories'', a collection of Rosenbaum's short fiction, was published by

Small Beer Press Small Beer Press is a publisher of fantasy and literary fiction, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was founded by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link in 2000 and publishes novels, collections, and anthologies. It also publishes the zine A zi ...

. His first novel was published by

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in German under the title ''Die Auflösung'' in May 2018. It will be published in English in May 2021 by

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's Erewhon Books as ''The Unraveling''.

Personal life

Rosenbaum formerly lived in

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, with his wife Esther and children Aviva and Noah. He currently lives near Basel, Switzerland.

Selected stories

*" True Names" (2008
(online)
collaboration with

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog '' Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent o ...

, was nominated for a

. *"Anthroptic" (2007
(online)
collaboration with visual artist Ethan Ham *"A Siege of Cranes"(2006
(online)
was nominated for a

. *"Embracing-the-New" (2004
(online)
was nominated for

for Best Short Story. *"Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum" (2004
(online)
was nominated for the

for Best Novelette. *"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). It was nominated for a

. *" The House Beyond Your Sky"(2006
(online)
was nominated for a

BSFA Award The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members. More recently, ...

and a

. He released all seven stories under

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licenses, in the latter three cases allowing others to modify the work.

References

External links

Benjamin Rosenbaum's Page
the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and the texts of a number of his stories.

from the October 2005 issue of ''

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