Mark L. Van Name

Mark L. Van Name (born March 14, 1955) is an American science fiction writer and technology consultant. As of 2009, Van Name lives in North Carolina.

About

With John Kessel, Van Name co-founded the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop in 1985, and in 1996 he, Kessel, and Richard Butner edited an anthology of stories written there, called ''Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology'', including one of his own stories.

Van Name's first professionally published science fiction short story was "My Sister, My Self", in 1984, in the anthology ''Isaac Asimov's Tomorrow's Voices''. His first novel, ''One Jump Ahead'', was published by Baen Books in 2007, and won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres in 2008. It is the first book in the Jon and Lobo series, of which he published another four books until 2012.

In 2009, he premiered a stand-up comedy routine at Balticon, the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention.

Van Name has worked in the information technology field for over 30 years, at one time serving as Vice President of Product Testing for Ziff-Davis, and has written many technical articles for print and on-line publications including Computer Shopper and PC Week. He currently is CEO of a technology assessment company, Principled Technologies, in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.http://pl745.pairlitesite.com/programming/bios11.php

Bibliography

Novels

Jon and Lobo Series
# ''One Jump Ahead'' (June 2007)
# ''Slanted Jack'' (July 2008)
# ''Overthrowing Heaven'' (June 2009)
# ''Children No More'' (August 2010)
# ''No Going Back'' (May 2012)

* ''Jump Gate Twist'' (July 2010) , a trade paperback omnibus re-issue of the novels ''One Jump Ahead'' and ''Slanted Jack'' accompanied by 4 essays and the short stories ''My Sister, My Self'' and ''Lobo, Actually''

Short stories

*''My Sister, My Self'' in ''Isaac Asimov's Tomorrow's Voices'' ed. Editors of Isaac Asimov's (Dial 0-385-27998-1, Apr '84
*"Happy Birthday" with Jack McDevitt in ''The Further Adventures of the Joker'' ed. Martin H. Greenberg (Bantam 0-553-28531-9, Mar '90
*"TV Time" in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' 15 # 4 & 5, No.169 & 170, April 1991ed. Gardner R. Dozois
*"Burning Up" in ''When the Music's Over'' ed. Lewis Shiner (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28985-3, May '91
*"The Ten Thousand Things" in ''Jim Baen's Universe'' Vol.1, No.6. Also in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe II.
*"Desert Rain" with Pat Murphy in ''Full Spectrum 3'', ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
*"Broken Bits" in ''Future Weapons of War'', Joe Haldeman and Martin H. Greenberg, Editors
*"Missing Connections" in ''Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology'' ed. John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name & Richard Butner (Tor 0-312-86090-0, Jan '96)
*"Basic Training" in ''Armageddon'' ed. David Drake, Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg (Baen 0-671-87876-X, May '98)

Anthologies

* ''Transhuman'' (2008) (with T K F Weisskopf)
* The Wild Side (2011)

Non-fiction

*''Windows Performance Secrets'' (1998) (with Richard Butner)
*''2001: The Personal Computer'' Article in ''New Destinies'', Vol. IX/Fall 1990 ed. Jim Baen (Baen 0-671-2016-3, Sep '90

References

External links

*http://www.markvanname.com/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20100102034004/http://baen.com/Interviews/vintMLVanName.htm
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American science fiction writers
American technology writers
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1955 births
American male short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers