The Official Web Site of Brad R. Torgersen

Brad R. Torgersen is a healthcare computer geek by day, a United States Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer on the weekend, and a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer by night.  He has contributed stories to multiple professional publications, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Russia's ESLI magazine, Poland's Nowa Fantastyka magazine, as well as several anthology collaborations with Hugo and Nebula award winner Mike Resnick.  Brad's novelette "Exanastasis" placed in the 26th volume of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.  Brad's novelette "Outbound" then won the Analog magazine 'AnLab' Readers' Choice Award for its category, for the publishing year 2010.  "Outbound" was also included in the Dell Magazines ten-year Analog retrospective anthology, Into the New Millennium: Trailblazing Tales From Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2000 - 2010. Brad's novelette "Ray of Light," also published in Analog magazine, is currently nominated for both the World Science Fiction Society Hugo Award, and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Award, for its category, for the publishing year 2011.  As of spring 2012 Brad is also nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in professional Science Fiction and Fantasy, with stories pending in Analog magazine, Phil Athans's collaborative project Tales From the Fathomless Abyss, Ian Watson's The Mammoth Book of SF Wars, as well as the Flying Pen Press military SF anthology, Space Battles.  Married 18 years, Brad now lives in northern Utah with his wife and daughter. 

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