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Other worlds from award-winning author Martin L. Shoemaker

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Blue Collar Space
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Today I Am Carey
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Shoemaker.Space

Other worlds from award-winning author Martin L. Shoemaker

About Martin
Martin’s Awards and Nominations
Read Martin’s Fiction Here

Martin’s Schedule
Martin’s Newsletter
Contact Martin

Martin’s Ties
Martin Tells Stories
What I’ve Learned

Martin on Facebook
The Instant Story Show
Ulterior Motive Lounge
Making Story Models

Martin’s Schedule

Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side… or maybe it’s the other way around. Programming pays the bills, but a second place story in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest earned him lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that!

Other Fiction by Martin L. Shoemaker

Martin's work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Galaxy’s Edge, Digital Science Fiction, Forever Magazine, Humanity 2.0, The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 4, Writers of the Future Volume 31, Time Travel Tales, Trajectories, Little Green Men: Attack!, The Glass Parachute, and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection.

Today I Am Paul

Martin’s Clarkesworld short story "Today I Am Paul" was nominated for a Nebula award by the Science Fiction Writers of America and received the Small Press Award from the Washington Science Fiction Association. “Today I Am Paul” has also appeared in The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 1, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 Edition, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, and The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8, as well as seven international translations.

Blue Collar Space

Blue Collar Space is the name for Martin's series of near-space, near-future hard science fiction stories. These stories are set on Luna, on Mars, in Jupiter orbit, and everywhere in between. It includes the award-winning stories "Scramble" (second place, Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, 2012), "Unrefined" (third place, Writers of the Future, 2014), and "Racing to Mars" (first place, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Analytical Laboratory award, 2016), as well as numerous other short stories, novelettes, and novellas. His novella "Murder on the Aldrin Express" was reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection.

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Martin in the Media

Omni Interview with Martin L. Shoemaker

Winner of the 2016 WSFA Small Press Award announcement

Between the Lines: Racing to Mars

Local author is top contender in sci-fi competition

Story by local author named ‘Best of 2015’

Jen Haeger asks three “simple” questions

Let’s Just Talk! with Kathryn Raaker interviews Martin