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to see tons
of pictures
taken
during our
Spring, 2000
visit to
Stavanger,
Norway.

More pics...
this time of
our Summer,
2000 Tour:
New Orleans,
and friends
galore visit
(the old)
Chez Nims.

JACK NIMERSHEIM

Author, Futurist, Computer Consultant

Cover Gallery

A sampling of covers from
various books I've written or
to which I've contributed stories.

Click on a cover's thumbnail
to see a larger image.

The Best Book of Desqview
This was my first published book. Released in March, 1990, it started a run of twenty-seven non-fiction books I wrote for various publishers over the next six years.

The First Book of Windows 3.1 (Korean)
It's a very strange experience, seeing one of your books translated into a foreign language. This cover is from the Korean translation of another Sams book, The First Book of Windows 3.1 (1992).

The First Book of Windows 3.1 (Spanish)
The same book, The First Book of Windows 3.1, this time translated into Spanish and published by Anaya Multimedia. To date, seven of my books have been translated into eight different foreign languages, including Greek, Korean, Portugese, and Bulgarian.

Alternate Presidents
My first published science-fiction story, "A Fireside Chat," appeared in Alternate Presidents (Tor Books, 1992), edited by award-winning SF author Mike Resnick. Following this initial success, I've managed to convice various editors that over thirty of my short stories warranted publication. Not too shabby for an old guy with a bad attitude. *g*

Sherlock Holmes in Orbit
This anthology (Daw Books, 1995) contained "Moriarty by Modem," a Holmesian pastiche that was extremely fun to write and was nominated in 1996 for a HOMer Award. (It also missed making that year's Hugo ballot by one vote. Who says writing isn't frustrating? *g*)

Diagnosis Terminal
Edited by award-winning horror and mystery writer F. Paul Wilson, this book (Forge, 1996) contained "Petit Mal," my first attempt at a medical thriller -- with a science-fiction twist.

Alternate Tyrants
Another Resnick-edited anthology (Tor Books, 1997). This one is special because the cover is based on my story, "The Rising Sun at Dusk", which was nominated in 1998 for a Sideways Award.

Graffiti from the Subways of My Mind
The first collection of my short stories (Farthest Star, 1997). It contains nine previously published stories from various anthologies, along with two new stories I wrote exclusively for this book.

And there you have it, a brief sampling of
my relatively minor literary success.

Click here if you're really interested
and would like to see a complete bibliography
of my published books and short stories,
along with a listing of some of the award
nominations I've been lucky enough to receive
over the past decade.

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Jack Nimersheim
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