Martin L. Shoemaker

Martin L. Shoemaker is an American science fiction author and, by his own description, 'a programmer who writes on the side,' based in Michigan. Active in the field since 2011, he has published widely in Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Clarkesworld. His novelette 'Racing to Mars' won the Analog Analytical Laboratory Award, and 'Today I Am Paul,' about a caretaker robot developing something like empathy for an Alzheimer's patient, won the Washington Science Fiction Society's Small Press Award and was a Nebula Award finalist; he expanded it into the novel Today I Am Carey (2019). His Near-Earth Mysteries series, including The Last Dance and The Last Campaign, blends hard science fiction with detective plotting set among the asteroid belt and near-Earth space industry.