Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side… or maybe it’s the other way around. Programming pays the bills, but his second-place story in the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest earned him lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that! His Clarkesworld story “Today I Am Paul” received the Washington Science Fiction Society’s Small Press Award, and was also nominated for a Nebula. It has been reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-third Annual Edition (edited by Gardner Dozois), The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One (edited by Neil Clarke), The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (edited by Rich Horton), and The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 (edited by Allan Kaster). It has been translated into French, Hebrew, Czech, Polish, German, Chinese, Italian, and Croatian. It is also the opening to Today I Am Carey. Others of Martin’s stories have appeared in Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, Digital Science Fiction, Forever Magazine, Writers of the Future Volume 31, The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade, and Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 4. His novella “Murder on the Aldrin Express” was reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirty-First Annual Collection and in Year’s Top Short SF Novels 4. His novelette “Racing to Mars” received the Analog Analytical Laboratory Award. You can learn more about Martin’s fiction at http://Shoemaker.Space.
