Tiedemann, Mark W
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1954- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Spacer Walks" in Space and Time for December 1983 as M William Tiedemann; The Gravity Box and Other Spaces (coll 2014) is a good selection of his shorter work, which ranges from Hard SF to Steampunk and fantasy. His contributions to the Isaac Asimov's Robot Mysteries Shared World sequence of Ties based on the Robot stories of Isaac Asimov, beginning with Asimov's Mirage (2000), are competent. In his own right, the Secantis Sequence beginning with Compass Reach (2001) is structured around an ideological division not uncommon in Space Opera, though well deployed here: a rigid hierarchical domain, here called the Pan Humana, where Genetic Engineering is not allowed, and Aliens are barred; and a more free-flowing adversary domain, here called the Commonwealth Republic, where aliens are welcome, and Homo sapiens increasingly diversifies in ways that are anathema to Pan Humana, where a stark Religion holds sway. In contrast to this wide-screen arena, a singleton like the Near Future Remains (2005), with much of its action restricted to a single Space Station, focuses on more personal issues – love and betrayal and death – in Tiedemann's colourful universe. [JC]
Mark William Tiedemann
born St Louis, Missouri: 12 October 1954
works
series
Isaac Asimov's Robot Mysteries
- Asimov's Mirage (New York: iBooks, 2000) [tie to the Shared World series: Isaac Asimov's Robot Mysteries: pb/Bruce Jensen]
- Asimov's Chimera (New York: iBooks, 2001) [tie to the Shared World series: Isaac Asimov's Robot Mysteries: pb/Bruce Jensen]
- Asimov's Aurora (New York: iBooks, 2002) [tie to the Shared World series: Isaac Asimov's Robot Mysteries: pb/Bruce Jensen]
The Secantis Sequence
- Compass Reach (Decatur, Georgia: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2001) [Secantis Sequence: pb/H Ed Cox]
- Metal of Night (Decatur, Georgia: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2002) [Secantis Sequence: pb/Ed Cox]
- Peace and Memory (Decatur, Georgia: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2003) [Secantis Sequence: pb/O B Solinsky]
- Other Ways: Three Tales of the Secanti (Waterville, Maine: SRM Publisher, 2004) [coll: Secantis Sequence: pb/]
individual titles
- Realtime (New York: iBooks, 2001) [pb/]
- Terminator 2: Hour of the Wolf (New York: iBooks, 2004) [tie to the series universe: The Terminator and sequels: pb/Grimando]
- Remains (Dallas, Texas: BenBella Books, 2005) [pb/Jean Pierre Targete]
collections and stories
- Extensions (Alma, Arkansas: Yard Dog Press, 2000) [novella: chap: pb/]
- Diva (Alma, Arkansas: Yard Dog Press, 2005) [novelette: chap: pb/]
- The Logic of Departure (Alma, Arkansas: Yard Dog Press, 2014) [omni of the above two plus an additional story: pb/]
- The Gravity Box and Other Spaces (St Louis, Missouri: Walrus Publishing, 2014) [coll: pb/John Kaufmann]
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