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Benjamin Rosenbaum
I live near Basel, Switzerland, with where I work as a computer programmer half the week and am pounded on by my children, Aviva and Noah, the other half. We bake a lot of pies while dancing to Laurie Berkner and They Might Be Giants. Often my wife Esther comes home and eats the pies with... show more

I live near Basel, Switzerland, with where I work as a computer programmer half the week and am pounded on by my children, Aviva and Noah, the other half. We bake a lot of pies while dancing to Laurie Berkner and They Might Be Giants. Often my wife Esther comes home and eats the pies with us.Then sometimes I sneak away and write things.My stories have been published in F&SF, Harper's, Asimov's, McSweeney's, Strange Horizons, and Nature; translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish; turned into conceptual art (http://www.anthroptic.org) and short films ("The Orange", which won Best Animated Short at SXSW); and nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, BSFA, Locus, and Sturgeon Awards.You can find out more (including a lot of free stories) at http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/biblio.html
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Inkspot Fancy
Inkspot Fancy rated it 10 years ago
A mixed bag of a book. First, if fanfic is a turnoff for you, be warned there are two stories in here which are basically fanfic, one with the serial numbers filed off and one which relied on the serial numbers to make its point. Maybe it's weird of me, but if I want fanfic, I'll wander the intern...
Darlene Marshall, author
Darlene Marshall, author rated it 12 years ago
Back in the '70s, Jack Dann brought out the collection Wandering Stars, the first Jewish themed SF & Fantasy collection. WS became a classic, and a popular Bar & Bat Mitzvah gift. Swirsky continues that tradition with People of the Book, a decade's worth of Jewish theme speculative fiction.I found ...
Midu Reads
Midu Reads rated it 12 years ago
Fixing Hanover by Jeff VanderMeer: ★★The Empire's Chief Engineer warns the villagers that the Empire might be coming for him but they don't believe it!The Steam Dancer (1896)by Caitlín R. Kiernan: ★★A woman who had an arm and leg amputated and her mechanic who builds her new ones.Icebreaker by E. Ca...
Barrita
Barrita rated it 12 years ago
Hay historias muy breves aquí, pero con premisas divertidas y alocadas. Presentan escenarios extraños, mucho caos y hay algunas bastante imaginativas.Algunas son bastante olvidables, pero en general me dejo una buena impresión y varias risas.
shenmi meiren
shenmi meiren rated it 13 years ago
a very powerfull short story :)
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