Ferrett Steinmetz

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Ferrett Steinmetz
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Ferrett Steinmetz is the pen name of author William Steinmetz, [1] who writes science fiction and urban fantasy and has been active since 2004. [1]

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Biography

Steinmetz lives in Cleveland with his wife and dog. [2]

Literary career

Although he's been writing since about 1988, Steinmetz's literary career was "rebooted" by attending the 2008 Clarion Workshop, [3] which "transformed [it] into something with intense focus ... and the ability to scale previously impossible publishing walls." [4]

His work has appeared in various periodicals, webzines, podcasts and anthologies, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , Apex Magazine , Asimov's Science Fiction , Bards and Sages Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Daily Science Fiction, The Drabblecast, Dragons, Droids & Dooms: Year One, The Edge of Propinquity, Electric Spec, Escape Pod , Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Giganotosaurus, GUD , Kaleidotrope, Leading Edge, Lullaby Hearse, Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 , Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show , PodCastle , Pseudopod , Redstone Science Fiction, Rocket Dragons Ignite, Shimmer , Soundproff Digest, Space and Time, Three-lobed Burning Eye , Three-lobed Burning Eye Annual, Uncanny Magazine , Unidentified Funny Objects, Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, What Fates Impose, and Whispers From the Abyss Vol. 2. [1] [3]

His recent novel Sol Majestic was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal as an example of the sub-genre "hopepunk". [5]

Awards

Steinmetz's story “Sauerkraut Station” (Giganotosaurus, Nov. 2011 [6] ) was nominated for the 2011 Nebula Award for best novelette. [7] [1] [4]

2008 Penguicon controversy

During the Penguicon convention in 2008, Steinmetz and a small group of other attendees partook in The Open Source Boob Project, where they would touch the breasts of consenting female convention attendees. [8] According to Steinmetz, this was not sanctioned by the convention, largely went unnoticed by the majority of attendees, and was a positive experience for those participating. After the convention, controversy about the project developed online [8] [9] [10] after Steinmetz posted about it [8] and initially encouraged other people to repeat the project at other conventions, before later issuing an apology and retraction in light of the controversy.

Bibliography

'Mancer trilogy

Other novels

Short fiction

  • "More Than Human" (2004)
  • "Listen" (2006) (as William Steinmetz)
  • "The Sound of Gears" (2009)
  • "Camera Obscured" (2009)
  • "At the Unicorn Factory" (2009)
  • "Suicide Notes, Written by an Alien Mind" (2009)
  • "In the Land of the Deaf" (2009)
  • "The Elderly Cyborg" (2009)
  • "The Backdated Romance" (2010)
  • "Home Despot" (2010)
  • "In the Garden of Rust and Salt" (2010)
  • "Under the Thumb of the Brain Patrol" (2010)
  • "As Below, So Above" (2010)
  • "Dead Prophecies" (2011)
  • "A Window, Clear as a Mirror" (2011)
  • "My Father's Wounds" (2011)
  • "iTime" (2011)
  • "Sauerkraut Station" (2011)
  • "'Run,' Bakri Says" (2011)
  • "Devour" (2012)
  • "In the Unlikely Event" (2012)
  • "Dead Merchandise" (2012)
  • "Riding Atlas" (2012)
  • "One-Hand Tantra" (2012)
  • "Shoebox Heaven" (2013)
  • "Shadow Transit" (2013)
  • "Hollow as the World" (2013)
  • "Black Swan Oracle" (2013)
  • "The Sturdy Bookshelves of Pawel Oliszewski" (2013)
  • "In Extremis" (2014)
  • "The Bliss Machine" (2014)
  • "The Cultist's Son" (2014)
  • "Four Scenes from Wieczniak's Whisk-U-Away, and One Not" (2014)
  • "Flex" (excerpt) (2015)
  • "The Flux" (excerpt) (2015)
  • "Rooms Formed of Neurons and Sex" (2016)
  • "The Tangled Web" (2016)
  • "Madness Is a Skill" (2019)

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Ferrett Steinmetz at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ↑ "About Ferrett Steinmetz" on Amazon.com.
  3. 1 2 Steinmetz, Ferrett. "Ferrrett Steinmetz's Stories."
  4. 1 2 Slater, Maggie. "Interview with Ferrett Steinmetz." In Apex Magazine, April 2014.
  5. ↑ Gamerman, Ellen. "‘Hopepunk’ and ‘Up Lit’ Help Readers Shake Off the Dystopian Blues", The Wall Street Journal March 13, 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  6. ↑ Steinmetz, Ferrett . “Sauerkraut Station”, Giganotosaurus, Nov. 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  7. ↑ Science Fiction Writers of America, "2011 Nebula Awards Announced", May 19, 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  8. 1 2 3 Steinmetz, Ferrett (2008-04-21). "The Open-Source Boob Project". Archived from the original on 2015-11-05. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  9. ↑ Moe (2008-04-23). "Open Source Boob Project: The True Story Of One Epic Day Nerds Groped Free". Jezebel. Gizmodo Media. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  10. ↑ Ann (2008-04-23). "Women's Bodies: Just Like Open-Source Software!". Feministing. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
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