Lawrence M. Schoen

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Lawrence M. Schoen
Born (1959-07-27) July 27, 1959 (age 64)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Psychologist
  • researcher
  • publisher
  • author
EducationCalifornia State University, Northridge (BS)
Kansas State University (MS, PhD)
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Website
lawrencemschoen.com

Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language.[1][2]

Biography

Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to Southern California when he was 18 months old, and he grew up in Culver City.[3]

In 1983, he graduated with B.S. in psycholinguistics from California State University, Northridge, having designed his own major, and then moved on to Kansas State University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology. In graduate school, Schoen's research focused on cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics.[3]

Doctorate in hand, he spent the next ten years in academia as an assistant professor at New College of Florida, Lake Forest College in Illinois, and Chestnut Hill College in Pennsylvania. He then moved to the private sector and served for about 17 years as the director of research and analytics for a medical center which provides mental health and addiction treatment service works throughout Philadelphia.[4]

In August 2019, Schoen was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and began treatment. The following January, he underwent an autologous bone marrow transplant and entered a new regimen of chemotherapy. As of February 2021, he was in remission.

Schoen lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.[3]

Author

Schoen attended the 1998 session of James E. Gunn's two-week Writers' Workshop in Science Fiction on the campus of the University of Kansas.[5] In 2010, he participated in Walter Jon Williams' two-week master class, the Taos Toolbox.

He has been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the Nebula Award for Best Novella three times,[6][7][8] as well as receiving nominations for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel[9] and the Cóyotl Award for Best Novel.[10]

Some of his more notable works as an author include the Amazing Conroy series of science fiction stories and novels, the first of which appeared in 2001,[11] about a space-traveling stage hypnotist and his alien companion animal (a "buffalito") that can consume anything and farts oxygen. Among these, the short story "Yesterday's Taste"[12] and the novellas Barry's Tale (2012),[13] Trial of the Century (2013),[14] and Calendrical Regression (2015)[15] have received award nominations.

Schoen appeared at Book Expo America in May 2015, where he was presented as one of four authors described by Tor Books as the next generation of science fiction and fantasy, based on his novel Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard, anthropomorphic SF that explores prophecy, intolerance, political betrayal, and a drug that lets one talk to the dead.

From 2015 to 2018, he was part of the staff at Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show as Reprint Editor, replacing Darrell Schweitzer as the magazine's interviewer.

Klingonist

Schoen founded the

ISBN 978-0964434523). In the realm of Klingon nonfiction, Schoen edited and published The Grammarian's Desk (978-0964434530), a collection of essays written by Captain Krankor (Rich Yampell). He also served as the editor of HolQeD (ISSN 1061-2327), the quarterly journal of the KLI, for the entirety of its 13-year run. He was featured in Director Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary about the Klingon Language Institute, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water (2004).[17] In 2011, he produced a daily Klingon language podcast called DaHjaj Hol.[18] (See Klingon Language Institute#Publications and translations
.)

Small press publisher

Schoen is the publisher and chief editor for Paper Golem, a speculative fiction small press started in November, 2006. The first book it published was Prime Codex, an anthology of previously published stories by members of the Codex Writers Group, of which Schoen is a founding member.[19] Paper Golem is Schoen's vehicle for "paying it forward," and focuses on two mains tracks: publishing single author collections by relatively new authors (e.g., Cat Rambo in 2009, Eric James Stone in 2011), and the Alembical series, which produces anthologies of original novellas (J. Kathleen Cheney's novella "Iron Shoes", from Alembical 2, received a nomination for the Nebula Award).[20]

Hypnotist

In 2013, Schoen took a page from one of his fictional creations and became certified as a hypnotherapist by the International Association of Professional Conversational Hypnotists (IAPCH), with the intention of developing materials to aid other writers grappling with problems common to their field (e.g., writer's block).[21]

Bibliography

The Universe of Barsk (Series)

The Conroyverse

The Amazing Conroy (series)

In chronological story order:[26]

Omnibus Editions

Freelance Courier (series)

Pizza in Space (series)

Other titles from the Conroyverse

In addition to the above, the following stories include characters from or are set in the same universe as the Amazing Conroy works:

Conroyverse Omnibus

Pirates of Sol

Collaborations with Jonathan P. Brazee

Seeds of War (series)

Collaborations with Brian Thorne

Adrenaline Rush (series)

Demon Codex (series)

Collections and other publications

Collections

Contents:
  • "Bidding The Walrus" (2003), first appeared in Low Port (2003).
  • "The Matter at Hand" (an Amazing Conroy novella), appeared in this collection.
  • "Retro-Virus" (2001), first appeared in Speculon Webzine (2001).
  • "Pun Gazing" (2005), first appeared in this collection.
  • "Smooth Maneuver" (2001), first appeared in Blue Food (2001).
  • "Euphemism Skin" (1999), first appeared in Spaceways Weekly (1999).
  • "Pidgin" (2005), first appeared in this collection.
  • "As Harmless as a Human Being" by Mark W. Tiedemann.
Contents:
Contents:
  • "Where to Find Monsters", appeared in this collection
  • "Every Janitor's A Goblin", first appeared in Spellbound (2000).
  • "Dragon Math", first appeared in Spellbound (2000).
  • "Choral Reef", first appeared in Spellbound (2000).
  • "The Gargoyle and the Bully", first appeared in Spellbound (2000)
  • "Historical Trolls", first appeared in Spellbound (2001).
  • "Snowball", first appeared in Spellbound (1999).
  • "Coyote Librarian", first appeared in Spellbound (2002).
  • "The Figurative Gryphon", first appeared in Speculon Webzine (2002).
  • "Brown Bagging", first appeared in Spellbound (1999).
  • "The Last Day Of School", first appeared in Spellbound (2002).
  • "Wishing the Bus", appeared in this collection.
Contents:
  • "A Single Shot", first appeared in M Brane SF (2010).
  • "Artificial Contrariness", first appeared in Dragonscroll, v1:n5 (1999).
  • "Beauty in Monochrome", first appeared in this collection.
  • "Bidding The Walrus" (2003), first appeared in Low Port (2003).
  • "Bugjuice", first appeared in The Age Of Wonders (2000).
  • "Case Study", first appeared in Terra Incognita (2000).
  • "Crossing the Line", first appeared in this collection.
  • "Cruel Teacher", first appeared in Speculon Webzine (2003).
  • "Euphemism Skin" (1999), first appeared in Spaceways Weekly (1999).
  • "Gift Time", first appeared in Barren Worlds (2008)
  • "Mars Needs Baby Seals", first appeared in Destination: Future (2010).
  • "Pidgin" (2005), first appeared in Aliens and A.I.s (2005) Eggplant Literary Productions.
  • "Pun Gazing" (2005), first appeared in Aliens and A.I.s (2005) Eggplant Literary Productions.
  • "Quantum Pen", first appeared in Artemis (2003).
  • "Red Shell", first appeared in Webzine (2001).
  • "Retro-Virus", first appeared in Speculon Webzine (2001).
  • "Smooth Maneuver" (2001), first appeared in Blue Food (2001).
  • "Stations of the Cheeseburger", first appeared in TEL : Stories (2005).
  • "Take Me To Your Leiderkranz", first appeared in Analog Magazine (2005).
  • "The Conservation Of Thelos", first appeared in Apex Digest (2005).
  • "The Day After The Census", first appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (2003).
  • "The Moment" (Hugo Award nominated story), first appeared in Footprints (2009) Hadley Rille Books.
  • "The Rule of Three" (2018), first appeared in Life, Preserved in Amber (in Chinese)
  • "Thinking", first appeared in Aeon magazine (2006).
  • "Three Halves Ambition", first appeared in Pangaea (2015).
  • "Thresher", first appeared in Breach the Hull (2007), Dark Quest, LLC.
  • "Whale Song", first appeared in Spaceways Weekly (2000).
  • "What Doesn't Stay in Vegas", first appeared in Desolate Places (Dec 2007) Hadley Rille Books
  • "Marcy of the Seals", first appeared in Global Warming Aftermaths (2008) Hadley Rille Books.
  • "Polar Opposites", appeared in this collection.
Contents:
  • "The Language of Clouds "
  • "Going To "
  • "Albert's Dilemma "
  • "Soul Mate "
  • "Buffalicious "
  • "City "
  • "What The Yeti Taught Me "
  • "The Gambling Gods "
  • "Fogment "
  • "Dying Words "
  • "Virtual Pancakes"
  • "Not A Cloud In The Sky "
  • "Vaults of Pluto "
  • "Moral Turpitude "
  • "Bottling The Walrus "
  • "Heuristic of Pain "
  • "Polka Dot Girl "
  • "Alphabet Death "
  • "Kraken "
  • "Holy Conversation "
  • "Buffalobotomy "
  • "Masks of Obsession "
  • "Immortal Death "
  • "FairyTale.com "
  • "Pale Pie "
  • "Pudding and Fear "
  • "Brief Escape "
  • "Sex, Lies, and Bowling Balls "
  • "Boneless Fish "
  • "Sandwiches"
  • "Unseen Voices "
  • "Bedfellows "
  • "The Clockwork Dwarf "
  • "Every Pill "
  • "Castles in the Sand "
  • "Interdimensional Donuts "
  • "Transalien "
  • "Ravage "
  • "Trippingly "
  • "Stuffed Ghosts"
Contents:
  • "Transcendent Boston", first appeared in Hellhounds.
  • "Awesome Sauce", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "Freud and the Bear", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "Xenosomnambulism", first appeared in Abyss & Apex (2008)..
  • "Coca Xocalātl", first appeared in ReDeus: Divine Tales (2012), Crazy 8 Press..
  • "Remora Immortal", first appeared in The Expanding Universe vol 6.
  • "The Promise", first appeared in Spaceways Weekly, number 55 (1998)..
  • "Singing for the Man", first appeared in ReDeus: Beyond Borders, (2013), Crazy 8 Press.
  • "The Bluie", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "Texas Fold'em", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "Hard Choices", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "Remora Prophet", first appeared in The Expanding Universe vol 6.
  • "The Fourth Person", first appeared in ReDeus: Native Lands (2013), Crazy 8 Press.
  • "Dabni Arrives", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "Tangential Myths", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "Writer's Block", first appeared in Harbinger (1999).
  • "Digger", appeared in Transcendent Boston and Other Stories (June 2022)
  • "A Lesser Necromancer" (co-authored w/ Brian Thorne), first appeared in Fantastic Realms.

Works in other anthologies and publications

Short stories:

  • "Cycles", appeared in Spaceways Weekly (2000).
  • "Experimental Design", appeared in The Martian Wave (1998).
  • "Fermentation", appeared in The Martian Wave (1998).
  • "Investments", appeared in Pangaea II: The Rise of Dominjaron.
  • "jubHa"' (in Klingon), appeared in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III (2000), Gallery Books.
  • "My Most Memorable Meal", appeared in Eating Authors: One Hundred Writers' Most Memorable Meals.
  • "Of Storm and Furry: Contemporary Past", appeared in Mythagoras (1990).
  • "Of Storm and Furry: Petals and Vents", appeared in Mythagoras (1990).
  • "Something New", appeared in Pangaea III: Redemption.

Poetry:

  • Minotaur Boys, appeared in Faerie Gold (1999).

Short story and poetry publishing history

Full Publishing Histories:

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Edited works

Awards and nominations

Interviews (text)

Interviews (video)

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