Ferrett Steinmetz | |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | speculative fiction |
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Ferrett Steinmetz is thepen name of author William Steinmetz,[1] who writesscience fiction andurban fantasy and has been active since 2004.[1]
Steinmetz lives inCleveland with his wife and dog.[2]
Although he's been writing since about 1988, Steinmetz's literary career was "rebooted" by attending the 2008Clarion Workshop,[3] which "transformed [it] into something with intense focus ... and the ability to scale previously impossible publishing walls."[4]
His work has appeared in various periodicals, webzines, podcasts and anthologies, includingAndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine,Apex Magazine,Asimov's Science Fiction,Bards and Sages Quarterly,Beneath Ceaseless Skies,Daily Science Fiction,The Drabblecast,Dragons, Droids & Dooms: Year One,The Edge of Propinquity,Electric Spec,Escape Pod,Fantasy Scroll Magazine,Giganotosaurus,GUD,Kaleidotrope,Leading Edge,Lullaby Hearse,Nebula Awards Showcase 2013,Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show,PodCastle,Pseudopod,Redstone Science Fiction,Rocket Dragons Ignite,Shimmer,Soundproff Digest,Space and Time,Three-lobed Burning Eye,Three-lobed Burning Eye Annual,Uncanny Magazine,Unidentified Funny Objects,Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling,What Fates Impose, andWhispers From the Abyss Vol. 2.[1][3]
His recent novelSol Majestic was reviewed inThe Wall Street Journal as an example of the sub-genre "hopepunk".[5]
Steinmetz's story “Sauerkraut Station” (Giganotosaurus, Nov. 2011[6]) was nominated for the 2011Nebula Award for best novelette.[7][1][4]
During thePenguicon convention in 2008, Steinmetz and a small group of other attendees partook in The Open Source Boob Project, where they would touch the breasts of consenting female convention attendees.[8] According to Steinmetz, this was not sanctioned by the convention, largely went unnoticed by the majority of attendees, and was a positive experience for those participating. After the convention, controversy about the project developed online[8][9][10] after Steinmetz posted about it[8] and initially encouraged other people to repeat the project at other conventions, before later issuing an apology and retraction in light of the controversy.
