Short-story writer? Editor/publisher of the science-fiction website The Infinite Matrix? Clarion West board member? Something like that.
My stories “Stable Strategies for Middle Management” and “Computer Friendly,” included in the collection Stable Strategies and Others, were nominated for the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Association in 1989 and 1990.
My work has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Hayakawa’s Sf Magazine, and The Norton Book of Science Fiction, a collection of the significant stories of the last thirty years, and has been reprinted in best-of-the-year collections in the United States and Europe.
I also have an extensive background in high-tech advertising, and I know more about the last forty years of computer marketing than is considered polite or reasonable. In the mid-1980s, I was Director of Advertising and Sales Promotion at Microsoft Corporation. More recently, I was Director of Marketing at Global Automation in Mountain View. I'm a former managing editor of Gorp, the pioneering outdoor recreation website, and my personal website, The Difference Dictionary, was declared a Cool Site of the Day — the coolest spot on the Internet for January 22, 1997. My stories, of course, draw on my familiarity with the Byzantine dynamics of the corporate workplace: how could they not?
Since 1988, I've been on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, which numbers among its graduates a significant number of the SF/fantasy field’s writers and editors. I'm a 1976 graduate of its sister workshop, Clarion.
Originally from the Boston area, I've lived recently in New York and San Francisco, and am a long-time resident of Seattle. I am at work on a biography of Avram Davidson, one of the great American fantastists of the twentieth century.
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