Mark L. Van Name

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Mark L. Van Name
Born (1955-03-14) March 14, 1955 (age 70)
Florida, US
OccupationAuthor, technology consultant
EducationBS Applied Mathematics-Computer Science, MS Computer Science
Genre Science fiction
Notable worksOne Jump Ahead
Notable awards Compton Crook Award
Website
markvanname.com

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.

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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. [1]

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. [2] His first novel, One Jump Ahead, was published by Baen Books in 2007, [3] and won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres in 2008. [4] 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. [5]

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. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Bibliography

Novels

Jon and Lobo Series

  1. One Jump Ahead (June 2007) ISBN   978-1-4165-2085-6
  2. Slanted Jack (July 2008) ISBN   978-1-4165-5549-0
  3. Overthrowing Heaven (June 2009) ISBN   978-1-4391-3267-8
  4. Children No More (August 2010) ISBN   978-1-4391-3365-1
  5. No Going Back (May 2012) ISBN   978-1-4516-3810-3

Short stories

Anthologies

Non-fiction

References

  1. ↑ "Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology". Archived from the original on 2011-01-30. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  2. ↑ "Stories, Listed by Author".
  3. ↑ "Mark's Journal".
  4. ↑ "Compton Crook Award Winners". Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Balticon Podcast » Promo 1 for Balticon 43 – Mark van Name Event". Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  6. ↑ "Object | Encyclopedia.com".
  7. ↑ Duggal, Sudesh M.; Popovich, Paul R. (1990). "An example of management training in expert systems: SBA loan evaluation system". Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGBDP conference on Trends and directions in expert systems - SIGBDP '90. pp. 588–618. doi:10.1145/97709.97754. ISBN   0897914163. S2CID   17297793.
  8. ↑ "Authors | Mark L. Van Name | Jim Baen's Universe". Archived from the original on 2009-10-24. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  9. ↑ http://pl745.pairlitesite.com/programming/bios11.php [ permanent dead link ]
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