Lawrence M. Schoen

Lawrence M. Schoen, Ph.D.
Born	July 27, 1959 (1959-07-27) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Psychologist, Chief Compliance Officer, Publisher
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction, fantasy
Influences Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny
www.lawrencemschoen.com

Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, and expert in the Klingon language. The youngest of four children, Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to southern California when he was eighteen months old and he grew up in Culver City, California. In 1983 he graduated with B.S. in psycholinguistics from the California State University at Northridge, having designed his own major, and then moved on to Kansas State University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology. During his graduate study, Schoen's research focused on cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. Doctorate in hand, he spent the next ten years in academia as an assistant professor at New College in Florida, Lake Forest College in Illinois, and Chestnut Hill College in Pennsylvania. He then moved to the private sector, and currently and serves as the director of research and chief compliance officer for a medical center which provides mental health and addiction treatment service works throughout Philadelphia. Schoen lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Schoen is the founder of the Klingon Language Institute and has published Klingon translations of William Shakespeare's plays Hamlet (ISBN 978-0671035785) and Much Ado About Nothing (ISBN 978-1587155017), as well as the epic of Gilgamesh (ISBN 978-1587153389) and the Tao Te Ching (ISBN 978-0964434523). In the realm of Klingon nonfiction, Schoen edited and published The Grammarian's Desk (978-0964434530), a collection of essays reportedly written by Captain Krankor. He also served as the editor of HolQeD (ISSN 1061-2327), the quarterly journal of the KLI, for the entirety of its thirteen year run. In 2011 he produced a daily Klingon language podcast called DaHjaj Hol.[1]

In 2007, Schoen was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.. Some of his more notable works as an author include the Amazing Conroy series of science fiction stories and novels about a space-traveling stage hypnotist and his alien companion animal that can consume anything and farts oxygen; short story "The Sky's The Limit" (originally published in All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (ISBN 978-0972054775), which made the preliminary ballot for the 2005 Nebula Awards; and "The Moment", a finalist for the Hugo Award for best short story in 2010.

Schoen is also the publisher and chief editor for Paper Golem, a speculative fiction small press started in November, 2006. The first book published by Paper Golem was Prime Codex, an anthology of previously published stories by members of the Codex Writers Group, of which Schoen is a founding member. Paper Golem is Schoen's vehicle for "paying it forward," and focuses on two mains tracks: publishing single author collections by relatively new authors (e.g., Cat Rambo in 2009, Eric James Stone in 2011), and the Alembical series which produces anthologies of original novellas (J. Kathleen Cheney's novella, "Iron Shoes" from Alembical 2 received a nomination for the Nebula Award).

Bibliography

The "Conroyverse"

NOVELS:

• Buffalito Destiny (June 2009) Hadley Rille Books (ISBN 0-9819-2434-4)
• Buffalito Contingency (July 2011) Hadley Rille Books (ISBN 0-9829-4677-5)

NOVELETTES:

• "Buffalogenesis" (2006) in Buffalogenesis: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #2, SRM Publisher (ISBN 0-9776-6393-0)

SHORT STORIES:

• "Buffalo Dogs" (2001) in Absolute Magnitude and reprinted in 'Buffalogic, Inc.: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #1, SRM Publisher (ISBN 0-9722-4732-7)
• "Telepathic Intent" (2003) in Buffalogic, Inc.: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #1, SRM Publisher (ISBN 0-9722-4732-7)
• "Requiem" (2005) in Absolute Magnitude and reprinted in Buffalogistics: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #3, SRM Publisher (ISBN 0-9776-6399-X)
• "A Buffalito of Mars" (2007) in Visual Journeys: A Tribute to Space Artists, Hadley Rille Books (ISBN 0-9785-1483-1)
• "The Matter At Hand" (2008) in Buffalogistics: Tales of the Amazing Conroy #3, SRM Publisher (ISBN 0-9776-6399-X)
• "Yesterday's Taste" (2011) in Transtories, Aeon Press

In addition to the above, the following stories include characters from or are set in the same universe as the Amazing Conroy works:

• "Bidding the Walrus" (2003) in Low Port (eds. Sharon Lee and Steve Miller), Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc. (ISBN 1-5922-2012-6)
• "Texas Fold'em" (December 2006) in nanobison

Collections

• Aliens and A.I.s (2005) Eggplant Literary Productions
• Sweet Potato Pie and Other Surrealities (2010) Hadley Rille Books (0-9827-2561-2)

Anthologies and Collections edited

• Prime Codex (2007, with Michael Livingston)
• Alembical (2008, with Arthur Dorrance)
• Cucurbital (2008, with Arthur Dorrance)
• Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight: Stories by Cat Rambo (2009, with Michael Livingston)
• Alembical 2 (2010, with Arthur Dorrance)
• Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories by Eric James Stone (2011, with Arthur Dorrance)
• Cucurbital 2 (2011)

External links

• Lawrence M. Schoen's official Web site
• Paper Golem's official Web site
• Klingon Language Institute official Web site
• Lawrence M. Schoen at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Lawrence M. Schoen at the Internet Movie Database