Benjamin Rosenbaum

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Benjamin Rosenbaum
Born (1969-08-23) August 23, 1969 (age 54)
New York City, US

Benjamin Rosenbaum (born August 23, 1969) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction writer, game designer, and computer programmer. His stories and novels have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the BSFA award, the World Fantasy Award, [1] and the Otherwise Award. [2] His tabletop role-playing game Dream Apart, together with Avery Alder's Dream Askew, was a finalist for the 2019 ENNIE Awards for Best Game, Best Setting, and Product of the Year. [3]

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Career

Born in New York City but raised in Arlington, Virginia, Rosenbaum received degrees in computer science and religious studies from Brown University.

His past software development positions include designing software for the National Science Foundation, designing software for the D.C. city government, and being one of the founders of Digital Addiction (which created the online game Sanctum).

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

His first novel was published by Piper Verlag in German under the title Die Auflösung in May 2018. [4] The English version, edited by Liz Gorinsky, was released June 8, 2021 by Erewhon Books as The Unraveling. [5] [6] It was Honor Listed for the 2021 Otherwise Award. [7]

His 2018 Jewish historical fantasy game [8] Dream Apart, inspired by and eventually published alongside Avery Alder's Dream Askew, co-created the Belonging Outside Belonging system, inspiring games such as Wanderhome [9] and Balikbayan. [10]

Personal life

Rosenbaum formerly lived in Washington, DC, with his wife Esther and children Aviva and Noah. [11] He currently lives near Basel, Switzerland. [12]

Selected stories

He released all seven stories under Creative Commons licenses, in the latter three cases allowing others to modify the work.

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  1. ↑ "God's really weird", Locus, October 2005.
  2. ↑ "Ryka Aoki and Rivers Solomon win 2021 Otherwise Award! Honor List announced" . Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  3. ↑ "2019 Nominees and Winners - ENNIE Awards" . Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  4. ↑ "Die Auflösung (in German)" . Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  5. ↑ "The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum" . Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  6. ↑ "The Unraveling (Amazon page, containing release date)" . Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  7. ↑ "Ryka Aoki and Rivers Solomon win 2021 Otherwise Award! Honor List announced" . Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  8. ↑ "Dream Apart Is the Jewish RPG You've Been Waiting For". tabletmag.com. Tablet. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  9. ↑ "Wanderhome is a Redwall-inspired RPG that arms players with dialogue, not daggers". Polygon . 16 April 2021.
  10. ↑ Carter, Chase (9 December 2020). "Cyberpunk by Asian Creators game jam spotlights neon-and-chrome tabletop RPGS without the racism". Dicebreaker.
  11. ↑ "Learning Objects - Our Staff". Archived from the original on 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
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