David D. Levine (center) with author
Jerry Pournelle and actress Julie Michaels.

         David D. Levine is a long-time science fiction reader and fan who is astonished to discover that he is suddenly a science fiction writer as well. He attended Clarion West in 2000 and made his first professional sale in March 2001.  He won second place in the Writers of the Future Contest shortly after that, and a few months later won the James White Award (a science fiction short story competition).  Since then he has continued to sell; look for his stories in anthologies such as Bones of the World, Apprentice Fantastic, Beyond the Last Star and the magazines Interzone and F&SF.

           David thinks of himself as a hard science fiction writer.  All of his stories are based on “what if” extrapolation from one or two changes to the universe as we know it, and he strives not to break any physical laws by accident.  However, from hard science fiction seeds can grow strange fruit; the resulting stories have been described as fantasy, horror, magic, realism and even fairy tales.  He seeks to emulate Cordwainer Smith, Iain M. Banks and Roger Zelazny.

           David lives with his wife, Kate Yule, in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a software engineer and user interface designer, co-edits the fanzine Bento, and serves as household system administrator and cat substitute. His Web page is at www.BentoPress.com.