Profile of David Bartell

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Bio

Writing SF since early 1970s, first published in 2005.  BA in Astrophysics from University of Virginia, 1982.  Masters certificate in project management from George Washington University.  Certified scuba divemaster, PADI and NAUI.  Lived in rural Zimbabwe teaching science, dabbling in archaeology, pipe-puffing, and longhand writing.  I now work at a very large high-tech company.  Wife, four kids.  More details on the bio page at http://www.davidbartell.us/

Bibliography

“Alphabet Angels” (with E. Sedia).  Short story.  Analog Science Fiction and Fact (March 2005), listed on Locus Recommended Reading for 2005.  Winner, AnLab award for favorite short story 2005.

“Smiling Vermin” (with E. Sedia). Short story.  Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May 2005), Russian translation published in ELSI Magazine (Dec 2005).

“Kamikaze Bugs” (with E. Sedia). Short story.  Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Jan/Feb 2006).

“Little Kink”. Short story.  Mind Scraps (forthcoming anthology).

“Places of Color”.  Short story.  Jigsaw Nation (anthology pub 2006).

“Pieces of Pi”.  Short story.  Gods and Monsters (anthology pub 2006).

“The Zetar Hypothesis”.  Article.  Reflection's Edge (July 2005).

"Misquoting the Moon".  Short Story.  Analog Science Fiction and Fact (March 2007).

Reviews

Tangent
on Alphabet Angels

an amusing tale well told and entertaining.

Finnish website review (poorly translated)
on Alphabet Angels

lucky homicide Very much behaving tale that laugh glorious aloud!

SF Revu
on Smiling Vermin

I hope for more stories about this couple.

SF Revu
on Kamikaze Bugs

another charming tale about Gus and Jessie and their adventures in genetic engineering. I hope they give us more of these.

Tangent
on "Misquoting the Moon"

In the modern day, it is difficult to make a big game hunter, especially one who is hunting endangered species, sympathetic, but David Bartell manages to do so in Misquoting the Moon. With the early revelation that the Earth is about to be destroyed and only a limited number of people will be able to be saved, Bartell is able to turn the readers attention away from the idea of hunting a species to extinction and instead focus on the relationship between his hunter, Ted Hathaway, and Teds friend and guide, Hendrik Izaaks. This relationship plays out well as it becomes apparent that Ted has a means of saving himself from the destruction of the Earth, but Hendrik and his family are fated for the doom so many humans will face. While the story comes to a satisfying conclusion, it also raises questions, not of ethics, but rather more practical considerations, which might be interesting for Bartell to explore in a sequel.

SFRevu
on "Misquoting the Moon"

...a nice little tale about how to save a little of a world that is about to be destroyed.

SF Revu
on Alphabet Angels

Quite entertaining

Tangent
on Smiling Vermin

poignant without being cheesy quite funny

Tangent
on Kamikaze Bugs

The short, seemingly only loosely linked events actually all flow together nicely in retrospect, just as events arent always visibly linked in the real world except in hindsight.

The Internet Review of Science Fiction
on Kamikaze Bugs

Gus and Jessie are engaging characters, and the scientific issues they deal with are intriguing.

Analog Reader
on "Misquoting the Moon"

"Misquoting the Moon" had the greatest emotional impact that I can ever remember from a short story in any genre...."wow".... I was really moved by this piece.