Edward M. Lerner is a US

United States

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 author of science fiction

Science fiction

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 and techno-thriller

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s.

As of 2010 he has published eight books. Three solo novels, one short story collection, and four novels co-authored with Larry Niven

Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...

 in the Known Space

Known Space

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven. It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars spin-off anthologies sub-series....

 universe. A majority of his work before 2006 was originally published in Analog, while now he publishes most short fiction in Jim Baen's Universe

Jim Baen's Universe

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His 2001 short story "Grandpa?" was made into a short film, The Grandfather Paradox, and shown at the 2006 Balticon Science Fiction convention

Balticon

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 where it won the Best Film Award. It was also a semifinalist at the 2006 Science Fiction Short Film Festival.

Biography

For over thirty years Edward M. Lerner worked in the aerospace and information technology industries while writing science fiction part time. He held positions at numerous companies such as Bell Labs

Bell Labs

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, Hughes Aircraft

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, Honeywell

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, and Northrop Grumman

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. In February 2004, after receiving a book deal for Moonstruck, he decided to write science fiction full time. (Source: Creative Destruction 2006.)

Novels

• Probe, 1991.
• Moonstruck, 2005.
• Fleet of Worlds
  Fleet of Worlds
  Fleet of Worlds are both a location and a book in Larry Niven's Known Space series.The series consisting of this book and its sequels is referred to by the same title.-Novel:The novel, co-written by Niven and Edward M. Lerner, was released in 2007...
  
  (with Larry Niven
  Larry Niven
  Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
  
  ), 2007.
• Juggler of Worlds
  Juggler of Worlds
  Juggler of Worlds is the sequel novel to Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner.It is set in the Known Space universe. Most of the book revisits earlier stories...
  
  (with Larry Niven), 2008.
• Fools' Experiments, 2008.
• Destroyer of Worlds
  Destroyer of Worlds (novel)
  Destroyer of Worlds is a novel set in the Known Space series, by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner. It is a sequel to their previous novels, Fleet of Worlds and Juggler of Worlds...
  
  (with Larry Niven), 2009.
• Small Miracles, 2009.
• Betrayer of Worlds
  Betrayer of Worlds
  Betrayer of Worlds is a novel set in the Known Space series, by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner. It is a sequel to their previous novels, Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, and Destroyer of Worlds., and is set 70 years before Ringworld....
  
  (with Larry Niven), 2010.

Short fiction

• "Settlement", Analog, January 2001.
• "Presence of Mind", Analog, February 2002.
• "Iniquitous Computing", Analog, July/August 2002. Also contained in the collection Creative Destruction.
• "Survival Instinct", Analog, October/November 2002. Also contained in the collection Creative Destruction. This story is a sequel to Presence of Mind
• "Moonstruck", Analog, September - December 2003. Published in book form in 2005.

InterstellarNet Series

• "The Science Behind the Story: InterstellarNet", non-fiction piece, http://www.sfwa.org/members/lerner/interstellar.html.
• "Dangling Conversations", Analog, November 2000.
• "Creative Destruction", Analog, March 2001. Also contained in the collection Creative Destruction.
• "Hostile Takeover", Analog, May 2001.
• "Strange Bedfellows", Artemis, Science and Fiction for a Space-Faring Age, Winter 2001.
• "A New Order of Things", Analog, May-September 2006.

Collections

• Creative Destruction, published 2006, Wildside Press.
  • The Day of the RFIDs
  • Survival Instinct
  • What a Piece of Work Is Man
  • By the Rules
  • Iniquitous Computing
  • Catch a Falling Star
  • Settlement
  • Creative Destruction

External links

• Edward M. Lerner's page at Macmillan.com
• Bibliography at SciFan
  SciFan
  SciFan is an online database for fans of science fiction and fantasy books.The site provides detailed bibliographies, linking books together into series' where appropriate and, in turn, grouping series by universe...
  
  
• Edward M. Lerner's website
• SF and Nonsense Edward M. Lerner's weblog