Benjamin Rosenbaum

In a far-future society where biotechnology has revolutionized gender, young Fift must decide whether to conform or carve a new path. In the distant future somewhere in the galaxy, a society has emerged where everyone has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success within the rigid social system is reliant upon instantaneous social approbation. Young Fift is an only child of the staid gender, struggling to maintain their position in the system while developing an intriguing friendship with the poorly-publicized bioengineer Shria–somewhat controversial, since Shria is bail-gendered. In time, Fift and Shria unintentionally wind up at the center of a scandalous art spectacle which turns into the early stages of a multi-layered revolution against their strict societal system. Suddenly they become celebrities and involuntary standard-bearers for the upheaval. Fift is torn between the survival of Shria and the success of their family cohort; staying true to their feelings and caving under societal pressure. Whatever Fift decides will make a disproportionately huge impact on the future of the world. What’s a young staid to do when the whole world is watching?

The Unraveling

"Rosenbaum's The Ant King and Other Stories contains invisible cities and playful deconstructions of the form. In "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum"—yes, his name is part of the title—the author imagines a world whose technologies and philosophies differ wildly from ours. The result is a commentary on the state of the art that is itself the state of the art." —Los Angeles Times Favorite Books of 2008 * "Give him some prizes, like, perhaps, "best first collection" for this book." —Booklist (Starred review, Top 10 SF Books of the Year) "Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout—a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world—this collection is a surrealistic wonderland." —Publishers Weekly "Rosenbaum proves he’s capable of sustained fantasy with "Biographical Notes," a steampunkish alternate history of aerial piracy, and "A Siege of Cranes," a fantasy about a battle between a human insurgent and the White Witch that carries decidedly modern undercurrents.... Perhaps none of the tales is odder than "Orphans," in which girl-meets-elephant, girl-loses-elephant." —Kirkus Reviews "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."—Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Lively, bizarre, and funny as well as dark, sinister, and sensual." —Boston Phoenix A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron’s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children’s collective goes house hunting. Benjamin Rosenbaum’s stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction and McSweeney’s, been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum’s work has been reprinted in Harper’s and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. He lives in Switzerland with his family.

and Other Stories

The Ant King

Adam-Troy Castro

André Ourednik

David Calvo

Le collectif Angle Mort est composé d’éditeurs, d’écrivains, de traducteurs et de scientifiques partageant une même conception de la science-fiction ; celle d’une méthode d’exploration de soi et de notre environnement. La revue numérique Angle Mort publie des nouvelles contemporaines, françaises ou traduites de l’anglais, qui font la science-fiction d’aujourd’hui, offrent un nouveau regard sur le monde et – c'est notre conviction – nous permet de mieux préparer demain. Pour ce numéro 2, retrouvez 4 récits de science-fiction inédits écrits par des auteurs contemporains ainsi que les interviews des contributeurs.

Angle Mort numéro 2

Critically acclaimed and Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated author Benjamin Rosenbaum makes his first appearance on Tor.com with an epistolary storyof a sort. Rosenbaum is a software developer by trade, which gives him precisely the right background to think through the implications of how fantastical tropes might alter a familiar technology that many of us use every day. Not to mention the fact that he and his family play a ton of Pandemic, and that all of his friends had already written zombie stories, and he was feeling a bit left out . Whatever the genesis, the result is a delightful and cheeky look into an all-too-plausible future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.Com Original

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In ferner Zukunft leben die Menschen in einer Gesellschaft, die von Biotechnologie und IT geprägt ist. In einer Zeit, in der sich die Geschlechtergrenzen aufgelöst haben und jeder mehrere Körper besitzt, muss die junge Fift ihre Stellung im System behaupten. Doch als sie sich mit dem schlecht beleumundeten Biotechniker Shria anfreundet, gerät alles außer Kontrolle. Ungewollt geraten Fift und Shria in ein skandalöses Kunstspektakel, das in Wirklichkeit der Auftakt einer Revolte gegen das starre System ist. Plötzlich werden sie zu Prominenten und unfreiwilligen Trägern von Umbrüchen ...

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Die Auflösung

The Ant King and Other Stories

Cory Doctorow

The tale of duelling galactic colony-organisms that are competing to recruit all the matter in the universe for raw computation.

Benjamin Rosenbaum

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