With John Kessel, Van Name co-founded the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop in 1985, and in 1996 he, Kessel, and Richard Butner edited an anthology of stories written there, called Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, including one of his own stories.^[1]

Van Name's first professionally published science fiction short story was "My Sister, My Self", in 1984, in the anthology Isaac Asimov's Tomorrow's Voices.^[2] His first novel, One Jump Ahead, was published by Baen Books in 2007,^[3] and won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres in 2008.^[4] It is the first book in the Jon and Lobo series, of which he published another four books until 2012.

In 2009, he premiered a stand-up comedy routine at Balticon, the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention.^[5]

Van Name has worked in the information technology field for over 30 years, at one time serving as Vice President of Product Testing for Ziff-Davis, and has written many technical articles for print and on-line publications including Computer Shopper and PC Week. He currently is CEO of a technology assessment company, Principled Technologies, in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.^[6][7][8][9]

Novels edit

Jon and Lobo Series

1. One Jump Ahead (June 2007) ISBN 978-1-4165-2085-6
2. Slanted Jack (July 2008) ISBN 978-1-4165-5549-0
3. Overthrowing Heaven (June 2009) ISBN 978-1-4391-3267-8
4. Children No More (August 2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-3365-1
5. No Going Back (May 2012) ISBN 978-1-4516-3810-3

• Jump Gate Twist (July 2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-3370-5, a trade paperback omnibus re-issue of the novels One Jump Ahead and Slanted Jack accompanied by 4 essays and the short stories My Sister, My Self and Lobo, Actually

Short stories edit

• "My Sister, My Self in Isaac Asimov’s Tomorrow’s Voices ed. Editors of Isaac Asimov’s (Dial 0-385-27998-1, Apr ’84
• "Happy Birthday" with Jack McDevitt in The Further Adventures of the Joker ed. Martin H. Greenberg (Bantam 0-553-28531-9, Mar ’90
• "TV Time" in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [v15 # 4 & 5, No.169 & 170, April 1991] ed. Gardner R. Dozois
• "Burning Up" in When the Music’s Over ed. Lewis Shiner (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28985-3, May ’91
• "The Ten Thousand Things" in Jim Baen's Universe Vol.1, No.6. Also in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe II.
• "Desert Rain" with Pat Murphy in Full Spectrum 3, ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
• "Broken Bits" in Future Weapons of War, Joe Haldeman and Martin H. Greenberg, Editors
• "Missing Connections" in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology ed. John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name & Richard Butner (Tor 0-312-86090-0, Jan ’96)
• "Basic Training" in Armageddon ed. David Drake, Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg (Baen 0-671-87876-X, May ’98)

Anthologies edit

• Transhuman (2008) (with T K F Weisskopf)
• The Wild Side (2011)

Non-fiction edit

• Windows Performance Secrets (1998) (with Richard Butner)
• 2001: The Personal Computer Article in New Destinies, Vol. IX/Fall 1990 ed. Jim Baen (Baen 0-671-2016-3, Sep ’90

• http://www.markvanname.com/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100102034004/http://baen.com/Interviews/vintMLVanName.htm
• Mark L. Van Name at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database