Author Biography and Bibliography

Author Biography

The year Mark Tiedemann was born, the Dow Jones finally broke its previous high from 1929 by closing at 404, The Day The Earth Stood Still premiered, and Isaac Asimov published his Caves of Steel, all of which bode weird for a strange life. After that, events took several turns for the unexpected.

Mark has been publishing science fiction and fantasy stories since 1990, a couple years after attending Clarion, where his instructors included Tim Powers and Samuel R. Delany. His short story "Psyche" was included in the twelfth annual Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and in the last couple of years he has published a few novels—Mirage and Chimera in the Asimov's Robot Mystery series, Compass Reach, volume one of the Secantis Sequence, and stand-alone Realtime.

He has several more novels forthcoming, notably Metal of Night, volume two of the Secantis Sequence, from MeishaMerlin.

Quite unexpectedly (as if any of the foregoing had been "expected") his novel Compass Reach has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback published in 2001.

All of this has made Mark a very happy writer, which is a "Good Thing."





Photograph by Drea Stein.