writing samples: pdfs  TECHNICAL An article on the statistical analysis of ultrasonic backscatter from heart muscle.   SCIENCE FOR GENERAL AUDIENCE An article for readers at the high school or introductory college level explaining the basic principles of information theory and error-correction coding.   FICTION This story won the Mark Twain Prize for Short Fiction from Red Rock Review in 1998.    ESSAYS This short essay on reading aloud in a changing world appeared in Orion magazine in 2007. This longer essay on the religiosity of the space-colonization movement appeared in Turnrow in 2008.

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