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Michael A. Burstein is an American writer of science fiction. He was born in
New York City, and grew up in the neighborhood of
Forest Hills in the
borough of
Queens. He attended
Hunter College High School in
Manhattan. In
1991 he graduated from
Harvard College with a degree in
Physics, and in 1993 he earned a Master's in Physics from
Boston University. In 1994 he attended the
Clarion Workshop.
Burstein's first published story, "TeleAbsence," which appeared in the July 1995 issue of
Analog, was nominated for the
Hugo Award and was chosen by the readers of Analog as the best short story published by the magazine in 1995. Two years later, Burstein won the
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 1997
World Science Fiction Convention, LoneStarCon2. Burstein subsequently received Hugo nominations for "Broken Symmetry," "Cosmic Corkscrew," "Kaddish for the Last Survivor," (also a
Nebula Award nominee) "Spaceships," "Paying It Forward," "Decisions," "Time Ablaze," "Seventy-Five Years," and "TelePresence," and a Nebula and
Sturgeon Award nomination for "Reality Check." His novella "Sanctuary" was chosen by the readers of Analog as the best novella published by the magazine in 2005 and was a nominee for the
Nebula Award. From 1998 to 2000, Burstein served as Secretary of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Burstein lives with his wife Nomi in the town of
Brookline, Massachusetts, where he's an elected
Town Meeting Member and Library Trustee. He has also worked as a science teacher at all levels, and he edits science textbooks. He has given lectures and spoken at various science fiction conferences and libraries, and to groups at
MIT and Harvard.
Burstein is president of the Society for the Preservation of Pluto as a Planet, which goes by the acronym SP3. The group of astronomy buffs formed in the spring of 2006.
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