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PRAISE FOR MY FICTION


Beautiful Singer:

  • Winner of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest (second place, fourth quarter).
  • “Steve Bein’s story of a haunted sword is elegant in its way of presenting feudal Japanese culture and characters. Every word of this story echoes with the culture of the samurai” (Amazon).

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Datacide:

  • A “gripping story about the nature of murder” (Sheila Williams, Asimov’s)
  • Translated into Russian and selected to appear in Esli, Russia’s premiere sci-fi magazine.
  • Used in college courses on science fiction at the State University of New York–Geneseo (not my courses!), alongside the work of H.G. Wells, Larry Niven, Orson Scott Card, Robert Heinlein, and others among whom I’m terribly humbled to be included.

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Odin’s Spear:

  • “An interesting and unusual story… packed full of detail” (Suite101).
  • Selected by Esli for publication in Russian translation.

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