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Benjamin Rosenbaum

Rosenbaum, Benjamin

August 23, 1969 (age 56)

Birth place: Long Island, New York, USA

63 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
April 2001 Poem A Gardener Betrayed by Roses Strange Horizons, 16 April 2001
July 2001 56 Short Fiction The Ant King: A California Fairy Tale The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2001
September 2001 Short Fiction Bellur Strange Horizons, 17 September 2001
October 2001 Short Fiction Ponge Strange Horizons, 15 October 2001
November 2001 Short Fiction Ahavah Strange Horizons, 19 November 2001
December 2001 Short Fiction Amea Amaau Strange Horizons, 17 December 2001
2002 65 Short Fiction The Orange Quarterly West, No. 54, Spring-Summer 2002
January 2002 Short Fiction Ylla's Choice Strange Horizons, 21 January 2002
February 2002 Short Fiction Zvlotsk Strange Horizons, 18 February 2002
March 2002 Short Fiction New(n) Pernch Strange Horizons, 18 March 2002
April 2002 Short Fiction Other Cities #8 of 12: Maxis Strange Horizons, 15 April 2002
May 2002 Short Fiction Jouiselle-Aux-Chantes Strange Horizons, 20 May 2002
June 2002 Short Fiction Penelar of the Reefs Strange Horizons, 17 June 2002
July 2002 35 Short Fiction Droplet The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2002
July 2002 Short Fiction The Cities of Myrkhyr Strange Horizons, 15 July 2002
August 2002 Short Fiction Stin Strange Horizons, 19 August 2002
November 2002 42 Short Fiction Fig Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2002
March 2003 Essay A Conversation Between Writers: Benjamin Rosenbaum and Aimee Bender Strange Horizons, 3 March 2003
March 2003 Short Fiction The Book of Jashar Strange Horizons, 17 March 2003
August 2003 86 Short Fiction Red Leather Tassels The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2003
January 2004 40 Short Fiction Embracing-the-New Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2004
January 2004 127 Short Fiction The Valley of Giants Argosy Magazine, January-February 2004
August 2004 106 Short Fiction Start the Clock The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2004
October 2004 233 Review Other Cities Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2004
November 2004 Short Fiction Night Waking Flytrap, November 2004
2005 29 Essay On "Embracing-the-New" The SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2005
January 2005 18 Short Fiction Collaborations by Well-Known Twentieth-Century Authors Which Were Rejected by Their Publishers and Are Now Collected by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Paul Melko Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, January 2005
September 2005 594 Short Fiction Falling Nature, September 22, 2005
October 2005 78 Interview Benjamin Rosenbaum: God's Really Weird Locus, #537 October 2005
October 2005 Short Fiction The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario Escape Pod, EP024
September 2006 Short Fiction The House Beyond Your Sky Strange Horizons, 4 September 2006
March 2007 |1.03 Short Fiction Confusion Ideomancer, March 2007
March 2007 |1.06 Short Fiction Down Ideomancer, March 2007
March 2007 |1.01 Short Fiction Halloween Ideomancer, March 2007
March 2007 |1.05 Short Fiction Newsboy Ideomancer, March 2007
March 2007 |1.02 Short Fiction Nothing Ideomancer, March 2007
March 2007 |1.04 Short Fiction Pale Ideomancer, March 2007
March 2007 |1 Short Fiction Twenty-Three Small Disasters Ideomancer, March 2007
December 2007 16 Short Fiction Molly and the Red Hat Interzone, December 2007
December 2007 36 Short Fiction Stray The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2007
February 2008 52 Short Fiction The King of the Djinn Realms of Fantasy, February 2008
August 2008 50 Review The Ant King and Other Stories Locus, #571 August 2008
August 2008 23 Review The Ant King and Other Stories Locus, #571 August 2008
December 2008 Review The Ant King and Other Stories Strange Horizons, 8 December 2008
March 2009 208 Review The Ant King and Other Stories Black Gate, Spring 2009
February 2010 Short Fiction Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum PodCastle, #90
March 2010 161 Short Fiction The Frog Comrade The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2010
April 2010 Review Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum StarShipSofa, No 132
January 2012 11 Short Fiction Things Exist by Imitation of Numbers Daily Science Fiction, January 2012
February 2012 8 Short Fiction Angry Child Daily Science Fiction, February 2012
February 2012 22 Short Fiction Nilly Daily Science Fiction, February 2012
June 2012 Short Fiction Elsewhere Strange Horizons, 18 June 2012
November 2013 Short Fiction Feature Development for Social Networking Tor.com, November 13, 2013
July 2014 |2 Review Feature Development for Social Networking StarShipSofa, No 346
March 2019 10 Short Fiction Network Protocols of Reef Six Sci Phi Journal, 2019Q1
November 2019 37 Short Fiction Rejoice My Brothers and Sisters The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2019
July 2020 |7 Short Fiction A Siege of Cranes Lightspeed, July 2020
July 2020 132 Short Fiction Bereft, I Come to a Nameless World Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2020
August 2020 |6 Short Fiction All These Guardians of Order and Clarity, None of Them Can Abide a Free Witch Lightspeed, August 2020
August 2020 |13 Interview Author Spotlight: Benjamin Rosenbaum Lightspeed, August 2020
November 2022 202 Review The Unraveling Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2022
December 2022 34 Short Fiction Three Excerpts from a Manuscript Entitled "Advice to a Young Person", in the Hand of Ishtiris of Sudden Hailstorm House Sci Phi Journal, 2022Q4
November 2025 Short Fiction Regarding the Childhood of Morrigan, Who Was Chosen to Open the Way Reactor, November 19, 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2003 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Droplet Nominee
2005 Hugo Award Best Novelette Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum Finalist
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum Nominee
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Start the Clock Nominee
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Embracing-the-New Nominee
2005 Nebula Award Short Story Embracing-the-New Nominee
2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Start the Clock Nominee
2006 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction The House Beyond Your Sky Nominee
2007 Hugo Award Best Short Story The House Beyond Your Sky Finalist
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette A Siege of Cranes Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The House Beyond Your Sky Nominee
2007 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction The House Beyond Your Sky Nominee
2007 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction A Siege of Cranes Nominee
2008 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction Sense and Sensibility Nominee
2008 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Molly and the Red Hat Nominee
2009 Hugo Award Best Novella True Names Finalist
2009 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Ant King and Other Stories Nominee
2009 Locus Poll Award Best Novella True Names Finalist
2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction True Names Nominee
2021 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF The Unraveling Nominee
2022 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel The Unraveling Nominee

Raised in Arlington, Virginia, USA and lived in Washington, DC, USA, with his wife Esther and children Aviva and Noah. Per 2020 he lives near Basel, Switzerland.
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