Mark W. Tiedemann

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Mark W. Tiedemann
Tiedemann in 2022
Tiedemann in 2022
Born1954 (age 69–70)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
EducationClarion Workshop
Genres
Website
www.marktiedemann.com

Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954 in

Robot universe, and within his own original universe, known as the Secantis Sequence.[1]

In spring 2005 he was named president of the Missouri Center for the Book,[2] which is the Missouri state adjunct program to the Library of Congress Center for the Book.[3]

Biography

Born to Henry and Donna Tiedemann,

Worlds of If, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, though none were accepted for publication.[5]

Upon entering high school, he discovered photography, which became his primary career.

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
. Several more quickly followed.

His next novel, Compass Reach, was shortlisted for the

hobos who stow away on translight ships and maintain a loose but widespread community. The novel deals with questions of class, material wealth, identity boundaries, and control, in the face of an expanding human presence that must deal with truly alien species. The novel ends with the principle polity, the Pan Humana, descending into civil war. The next novel in the series, Metal of Night, deals with that civil war, but from the standpoint of the victims and deals with issues of costs and consequence. The third Secantis novel, Peace and Memory, takes place some 80 years after the civil war and considers questions of self-determination
, identity, and the parameters of appropriate political growth.

These three novels, plus a number of short stories, are constructed in such a way as to offer multiple possibilities for future stories, none of which share common characters, only a common background. Meisha Merlin Publishing published the novels.

Another novel, Remains, from BenBella Publishing, is separate from his Secantis universe. Remains is more of a "planetary romance", the action taking place within the confines of the Solar System. The novel was shortlisted for the

James Tiptree Jr. Award
in 2006.

Bibliography

Novels

The Secantis Sequence:

  • Compass Reach (2001)
  • Metal of Night (2002)
  • Peace & Memory (2003)
  • Other Ways:Three Tales From The Secant (chapbook) (2005)

Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery series:[7]

  1. Asimov's Mirage (2000)
  2. Asimov's Chimera (2001)
  3. Asimov's Aurora (2002)

Terminator series:

  • Terminator 2: Hour of the Wolf (2004)[8]

Stand-alones:

  • Extensions (chapbook) (1999)
  • Realtime (2001)
  • Of Stars And Shadows (2004)
  • Remains (2005)
  • Diva (chapbook) (2005)

Short fiction

Collections
  • Tiedemann, Mark. Gravity box and other stories. Walrus Publishing.[9]

References

  1. ^ Tiedemann, Mark W. (October 19, 2008). "Ordinary world and underworld collide". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  2. ^ "Board Members". Missouri Center for the Book. Retrieved 2009-01-24.
  3. St. Louis Post Dispatch
    . p. F9.
  4. ^ Tiedemann, Chimera
  5. ^ a b Gifford, Russell (2004). "Interview: Time, Space and Mark Tiedemann". Vision: A Resource for Writers. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  6. ^ The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop
  7. ^ This trilogy is set in the chronology of Isaac Asimov's Robot series, between the novels The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.
  8. ^ A sequel to the New John Connor Chronicles trilogy by Russell Blackford. It is unrelated to the trilogy by S. M. Stirling or novels by Aaron Allston.
  9. ^ Briefly reviewed in the July 2015 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, pp.107–111

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