Mark L. Van Name (born 14 March 1955) is an American

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and technology consultant. As of 2009, Van Name lives in

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About

With John Kessel, Van Name co-founded the

Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop is an annual workshop for science fiction writers. Since its origin in 1985, it has been held in Raleigh, North Carolina; Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; and most recently in Little Switzerland, North Carolina. Currently or ...

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 The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best English language first novel of the year in the field of science fiction, fantasy, or horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at their annual science fiction convention, Baltic ...

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

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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 Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. Most of his books follow either superluminal pilot Pri ...

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 Lewis Shiner (born December 30, 1950 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer. Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, and then identified with cyberpunk. He later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and f ...

(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 Lou Aronica (born 1958) is an American editor and publisher, primarily of science fiction. He co-edited the ''Full Spectrum'' anthologies with Shawna McCarthy. As a publisher he began at Bantam Books and formed their Bantam Spectra science fiction ...

, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Doubleday Foundation, 1991 *"Broken Bits" in ''Future Weapons of War'',

Joe Haldeman Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974). That novel and other works, including ''The Hemingway Hoax'' (1991) and '' Forever Peace'' (1997), have wo ...

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 David A. Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now a writer in the military science fiction genre. Biography Drake graduated Phi ...

, 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

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