David D. Levine, Science Fiction Writer

1/30/12: Late-breaking news! I will be reading this week at the SFWA Northwest Reading Series in Portland (Tuesday) and Seattle (Wednesday).

1/10/12: Just got a request from Science Fiction World in China to translate my story "Pupa"! Also, I have updated my Upcoming Appearances below. I am pleased to announce that I will be the instructor for the Potlatch 21 Writer's Workshop.

1/6/12: My stories Tides of the Heart (EPUB) and Citizen-Astronaut (EPUB) are now available for download as ebooks in EPUB format. The books are entirely free and unprotected. This is the first time I've done an ebook conversion; please email me if you have any comments on the ebook formatting.

1/5/12: You can now read my stories Tides of the Heart (HTML) and Citizen-Astronaut (HTML) for free, right on this very website. EPUB versions are coming soon.

11/17/11: I just finished the first draft of my story for Lowball, the 22nd Wild Cards book. The audiobook of Wild Cards Volume I, including my story "Powers", is now available from Brilliance Audio in audio CD, MP3 CD, and WMA download. Here's a very complimentary review. Also, Tor is running a sale on the ebooks of the first four Wild Cards books.

11/15/11: The Drabblecast podcast is now offering a 10-episode "highlight reel" or "primer" to introduce themselves to new readers, and my stories "Charlie the Purple Giraffe" and "Babel Probe" are included. You can download it here: http://www.drabblecast.org/new/

11/10/11: I have posted my OryCon programming schedule.

8/10/11: Lots of writing news to report:

My novelette "Pupa" will appear in Analog's first Kindle anthology, Into the New Millennium: Trailblazing Tales from Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2000-2010.
Anthology End of an Aeon, including my novelette "The True Story of Merganther's Run," is now available, in paper or Kindle format.
My story "Zauberschrift" has been podcast at PodCastle, with a fine reading by Wilson Fowlie.
The awesome Alpha Workshop class of 2011 has posted their official class video!
I have been added to the Liar's Panel at the Worldcon: Thursday 20:00 in A03. Jay Lake, James Patrick Kelly, Connie Willis, and me!
Issue 100 of Realms of Fantasy has been reviewed by Rich Horton in Locus: "I particularly liked... David D. Levine's 'The Tides of the Heart' -- pure urban fantasy, in which a plumber specializing in magical problems runs into a special one: an undine trapped in the pipes of an historical old house marked for demolition. The plumber's solution to the problem is personal as well as magical, and the intermixing of the two works perfectly. Recommended."
I sold short story "The Last Days of the Kelly Gang" to John Joseph Adams for his anthology Armored. It's a steampunk powered-armor story set in the Australian Outback in 1880.

8/1/11: I am pleased and proud to announce that I will be presenting the award for Best Short Story at the Hugo Awards ceremony in Reno! Also, I have posted my Worldcon program schedule.

7/7/11: My stories "Pupa" and "Teaching the Pig to Sing" were given Honorable Mentions in Gardner Dozois' 2010 "Year's Best SF."

6/29/11: I will be reading "Charlie the Purple Giraffe" at Ephemerata Speculata, a live event in Portland, on July 17.

6/28/11: My story "Tides of the Heart" was published in the June 2011 Realms of Fantasy! You can buy it in PDF or paper. My story "Pupa" came in second for Best Novelette in the 2010 Analog readers' poll! The May issue of Locus includes an interview with me! You can read some excerpts online. Reviews roundup: The Mars Diaries, "Powers", "Powers", "Citizen-Astronaut", and "Tides of the Heart". The latest Outer Alliance podcast includes an interview with me. You can preorder the long-awaited anthology End of an Aeon from Fairwood Press. Finally, my story "Zauberschrift" has been accepted at the podcast PodCastle. Whew! I'll try to update more frequently.

4/11/11: You can hear me in a panel discussion about YA science fiction in this month's Salon Futura podcast.

4/2/11: I will be presenting my Mars talk at the April 9 meeting of the Portland Science Fiction Society, free and open to the public. See this blog post for details.

4/1/11: My story "Trust" is now available for everyone to read at Daily Science Fiction. I also received my contributor's copies of the June 2011 Analog, including my novelette "Citizen-Astronaut," and the galleys of my Locus interview, which should be published in the May issue. (SQUEE!) And, last but not least, I finished the first draft of my YA SF novel The Loneliest Girl on Mars. It goes on the shelf for a few weeks before I begin revisions.

3/25/11: My story "Trust" has been sent to subscribers of Daily Science Fiction; it will appear on the website in a week.

3/17/11: You can now hear an interview with me (14MB MP3 file) on the podcast Dialogue: Between the Lines.

3/2/11: My story "A Passion for Art" has been podcast at StarShipSofa, and my novelette "Pupa" has been included on the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List for 2010 with three stars!

2/16/11: "Written on the Wind", my fourth published story, has been given a fine audio version, read by Mur Lafferty, at Escape Pod. You can also read the full text of the story at the Escape Pod website, and there's a lively discussion of the story on the podcast's message board. Also, I recently learned that the Italian translation of Wild Cards 1 is of the new edition, so it does include my story "Powers".

2/2/11: My story "Pupa" from the October 2010 Analog made the Locus Recommended Reading List!

1/28/11: I have just been invited to be an instructor for this year's Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Workshop for Young Writers!

1/6/11: I sold short story "Into the Nth Dimension" to DAW anthology Human for a Day, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Martin H. Greenberg. Also, I've added some new Upcoming Appearances.

1/4/11: I've put "Second Chance" from Alembical 2 and "Pupa" from the September 2010 Analog up for your reading pleasure.

12/16/10: Reprint sale! My story "Written on the Wind" (from sff.net anthology Beyond the Last Star) will be podcast on Escape Pod!

12/8/10: I sold "Citizen-Astronaut," the story (based on my trip to "Mars") that won Second Prize in the 2010 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest, to Analog. This is my third Analog sale, which makes me a member of the dreaded Analog Mafia. And yes, that means I sold to Realms of Fantasy and Analog in the same month.

11/23/10: Happy release day to Wild Cards I, featuring my story "Powers"!

11/18/10: Locus reviewer Rich Horton's year-end summary for Analog calls out my "Teaching the Pig to Sing" for special praise. Because this story has been catching some critical attention, I've put it online for you to read for free. Tell all your friends! Also, my story "Tides of the Heart" has been accepted by the re-revived Realms of Fantasy.

11/11/10: My story "Letter to the Editor" was accepted by John Joseph Adams for his anthology The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination; my story "Trust" was accepted by Daily Science Fiction; I have received an ARC of the revised Wild Cards I, which will be available on November 23; the website for the Cascade Writers writing workshop is now open for registration; and I'm quoted briefly in an Oregonian article about climate change in SF.

10/7/10: You can now read my story "Finding Joan" at Daily Science Fiction; You can win a copy of Wild Cards 1 from Pat's Fantasy Hotlist; and you can now buy Légendes, an anthology in French including my "L'histoire de l'Aigle Royal" (The Tale of the Golden Eagle), from Black Mamba.

10/6/10: Yay! StarShipSofa wants to podcast my story from Interzone 228. But! Gardner Dozois in Locus didn't like it. Ya win some, ya lose some.

9/28/10: While I was in Australia I didn't write a word, but when I came home I found that a lot had happened in my absence:

Horror story "Floaters" was podcast in issue 177 of The Drabblecast
Ghost story "A Little Song, A Little Dance" was published in Book View Cafe's charity e-anthology Breaking Waves
Vampire story "Family Matters" was published in anthology Fangs for the Mammaries, edited by Esther Friesner
Fantasy story "Nucleon" was reprinted in anthology Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, edited by Karen A. Romanko
An interview with me was published at AusLit.net.
I received the Sacred Chalice of Glory trophy from The Drabblecast for the podcast of my story "Babel Probe", which won the People's Choice Award for Best Drabblecast Story of the Year. Unfortunately, Kate says she doesn't want that eyeball on her mantel.
I learned that next April I will be the Stollee Lecturer at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, where my Clarion West classmate Inez teaches in the English department. I've never been an endowed lecturer before. (No, wait, that didn't sound right.)

I also received three rejections and a rewrite request. The rejected stories have all gone back out and I'll be starting on the rewrite shortly.

8/22/10: "A Little Song, A Little Dance," a ghost story co-written with Andrine de la Rocha, will appear in charity anthology Breaking Waves: An Anthology for Gulf Coast Relief from Book View Cafe. Also, take a gander at the cover for Wild Cards I, coming in November!

7/26/10: I sold SF story "Finding Joan" to new online market Daily Science Fiction, and horror story "Floaters" to podcast The Drabblecast.

7/22/10: The Mars Diaries -- the collected blogs of Mars Desert Research Station Crew 88 -- is now available from lulu.com.

7/7/10: I'll be giving my Mars talk at the Mars Society's annual convention (August 5-8 in Dayton, Ohio). I'll be presenting to the whole convention right after Robert Zubrin opens the event! My Realms of Fantasy story "Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven" was selected as an Honorable Mention by Gardner Dozois in his Year's Best SF. And the September 2010 Analog, Interzone 228, Alembical 2, and Escape Pod episode 240, all with stories by me, are now available.

5/6/10: My unpublished story "Citizen-Astronaut" won Second Prize in the 2010 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest. My story "Galactic Stress" was named one of the Notable Stories of 2009 for the storySouth Million Writers Award. Alembical 2, including my novella "Second Chance," is now available for pre-order and got a starred review from Publishers Weekly. And the sixty-minute Tech Talk about my trip to "Mars" I presented to the engineers at Google is now available on YouTube.

4/22/10: Alembical 2 from Paper Golem Press, which includes my novella "Second Chance," will be launching at Balticon at the end of May. May should also see the publication of Interzone 228, including my story "A Passion for Art;" the anthology Légendes, including the French translation of "Tale of the Golden Eagle;" and the May issue of Laptop, including a "Burning Question" section with a short essay by me about futuristic technology. Also, in the April Locus, Rich Horton gave my story "Teaching the Pig to Sing" a Recommended review.

3/31/10: I will be presenting the Keynote Speech at this year's Nebula Awards banquet!

3/30/10: I've participated in an SF Signal "Mind Meld" about The Best Aliens in SF and a Laptop Magazine "Burning Question" about Technology That Makes You Feel Like You're Living in the Future.

3/29/10: The Drabblecast podcast of my story "Babel Probe" won the People's Choice Award for Best Story of the Year! My story "Teaching the Pig to Sing" appeared in the May 2010 issue of Analog, my non-fiction essay "How the Future Predicts Science Fiction" appeared in the final issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction, and "Wind from a Dying Star" appeared on Escape Pod (available as an MP3 file or via iTunes) and got some nice comments in the Escape Pod forums. I also sold "The Last McDougal's" to Escape Pod for a future podcast. I've also added some Upcoming Appearances below, including a talk about my trip to "Mars" at Powell's Technical Books in Portland.

2/6/10: My story "horrorhouse" made the BSFA Award longlist. "horrorhouse" might also be (re)printed in a forthcoming paper version of DayBreak... I'll keep you informed of any progress. The cover and final ToC of Retro Spec, including a reprint of my story "Nucleon," have also been announced... it's scheduled for publication in October 2010. And I got a nice wooden base made for my Endeavour Award.

1/28/10: I have returned safely from Mars! See my Mars journal for stories and photos. Also, Rich Horton of Locus calls "Aggro Radius" in Gamer Fantastic one of the 8 most noteworthy stories (out of 175) in DAW's 2009 anthologies.

12/25/09: I have been selected to be a member of Crew 88 at the Mars Desert Research Station! The MDRS is a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert and I will be there January 9-23, 2010. See this blog post for more details.

12/24/09: I sold novella "Second Chance" to anthology Alembical II from Paper Golem LLC.

12/7/09: My story "horrorhouse" has been reviewed at Big Dumb Object.

11/27/09: Space Magic, my first collection of short stories, won the Endeavour Award!

11/17/09: Two sales today! "A Passion for Art" to Interzone, and "Nucleon" (reprint) to Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia! Also, I learned that Esther Friesner's "untitled suburban vampire anthology" will be titled Fangs for the Mammaries.

11/10/09: In his year-end summmary of Realms of Fantasy, Rich Horton calls my "Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven" one of the best short stories in the magazine this year.

11/5/09: You can now read my story "horrorhouse" online at DayBreak Magazine.

10/26/09: I have posted my program schedules for the World Fantasy Convention and OryCon.

10/24/09: I received an acceptance on a short story, but I won't know until next June which publication it will be appearing in! Watch this space. "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" will also be translated into French, in the anthology Légendes.

10/20/09: I sold short story "Pupa" to Analog! I also sold audio rights to "Wind from a Dying Star," my first professional sale, to Escape Pod.

10/6/09: I sold short story "horrorhouse" to DayBreak Magazine, a new online magazine dedicated to near-future, optimistic SF. It will appear on October 31. I also received payment for my Wild Cards story, though there may be one more round of editorial comments.

9/5/09: I got my program schedule for Foolscap. I'll be auctioneering and appearing on a bunch of programming.

8/29/09: My Google slaves have discovered a surprisingly thorough bio of me in Russian (Google translation). This led me to the discovery that the Dozois Year's Best SF 24, including my story "I Hold My Father's Paws," was translated into Russian in 2008.

8/27/09: I received payment from Analog for my story "Teaching the Pig to Sing." The story will probably appear in Spring or Summer of 2010. Also, a Hungarian Blogger said some nice things about "Titanium Mike." Google Translate renders the last two sentences of this review as "Literary feat: just write a few, and only the best can really cause pleasure released. The story's end as if to seize the smile in our faces, and this is no small achievement." Indeed.

8/3/09: I'm heading for Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal, tomorrow. My schedule is here. Also, in the July Locus, Gardner Dozois said my story "Aggro Radius" was one of the best stories in Gamer Fantastic.

7/16/09: Space Magic's Signed Limited Edition is now available from Wheatland Press.

7/15/09: I will be one of the pros at this year's Worldcon Writers Workshops. See the link for information about how to sign up. Deadline is July 25, which is soon! Also, Gamer Fantastic, including my story "Aggro Radius," is now available. I picked up a copy at Powell's.

6/30/09: Space Magic, my first collection of short stories, is a finalist for the Endeavour Award!

6/29/09: "Firewall" and "Sun Magic, Earth Magic" received Honorable Mentions from Gardner Dozois in his annual Year's Best SF.

6/23/09: I sold story "Teaching the Pig to Sing" to Analog, my first sale to that market. I am right chuffed. Also, the podcast of I Hold My Father's Paws from Beam Me Up has been re-posted in their archive.

6/20/09: Circlet Press's ebook anthology Up for Grabs, including my humorous SF erotica short-short story "Fair Play," is now available. Warning: explicit sexual content. (My story is sexual, but not as explicit as some of the others.)

6/9/09: I sold story "Family Matters" to Esther Friesner for her as-yet-untitled anthology about vampires in suburbia. This story is the third in a series that begins with "Midnight at the Center Court" in Witch Way to the Mall, Esther's anthology about witches in suburbia, which just hit the shelves. I also gave an interview to local journalist T. K. Gilb which should appear as one or more articles on examiner.com at some point in the future.

5/14/09: The podcast of "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" is now up at StarShipSofa (also available via iTunes).

5/9/09: "Charlie the Purple Giraffe" is now available as an audio presentation with music and sound effects at The Drabblecast (also available as an MP3 file and via iTunes).

5/3/09: I have been selected to write one of three new stories in a hardcover reissue of Wild Cards Volume One!

4/23/09: I'm now a member of the Wild Cards consortium! Also, I sold audio rights for "Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely" to The Drabblecast, who did such an excellent performance of "Babel Probe". I've also received my author copy of Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, which has a gorgeous cover and includes my Nebula nominee "Titanium Mike Saves the Day." And I've received my preliminary program schedule for Wiscon.

4/4/09: I've been invited to participate in a Science Fiction Panel on Thursday, Apr 16 from 6 to 8 at the Mt. Hood Community College Library, part of National Library Week. Free and open to the public.

4/2/09: My story "Babel Probe" is now available as an EXCELLENT audio at Drabblecast (http://www.drabblecast.org). You can hear it here or download an MP3 file or download it from iTunes. FREE!

3/29/09: My story "Galactic Stress" has been reviewed at BestScienceFictionStories.com ("it was filled with totally cool ideas that gave me gadget envy!"). I also received galley proofs for my story "Aggro Radius" in Gamer Fantastic.

3/18/09: I have a short essay in the latest "Mind Meld" at SF Signal. This one's about taboos in SF. Also, I will be giving a talk at the Library of Congress at noon on April 9, part of their "What If..." series.

3/6/09: My story "At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco's Homebrew Gravitics Club" has been posted on the Reno in 2011 Worldcon bid website.

2/26/09: My story "Galactic Stress" has been published in Diamonds in the Sky, an online anthology that is free for everyone to read; I have an essay in SF Signal's latest Mind Meld, on the topic "what books and writers have influenced you and what influences do you hope to have on future writers;" Space Magic has been reviewed in the April issue of Realms of Fantasy ("Levine is a multitalented author whose fertile, wide-ranging imagination is -- as his title implies -- equally at home in the fields of fantasy and science fiction"); my story "Firewall" has been translated into Chinese, in the magazine "SF King"; the February issue of Realms of Fantasy was reviewed in Locus, where Rich Horton called my story "Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven" "a nice humorous story;" and I received payment for my story "Fair Play" from Circlet Press and galleys of my story "Midnight at the Center Court" from Witch Way to the Mall.

12/5/08: Lots of news this week. The December Internet Review of Science Fiction includes Greg Beatty's long and thoughtful review of Space Magic ("this collection makes it clear that David D. Levine is a writer to watch"). The December Locus includes Gardner Dozois's review of Transhuman ("Best story here is by David D. Levine"). I received my contributor's copies of the February 2009 issue of Realms of Fantasy, including my story "Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven" (I love, love, love the illustration they gave it). The audio version of "Sun Magic, Earth Magic" (ably read by BCS editor Scott H. Andrews) was posted at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A five-minute video of me blabbering incoherently, recorded by Bill Johnson of Willamette Writers at OryCon, was posted on YouTube. And I learned that Aeon Magazine, the next issue of which was going to contain my story "The True Story of Merganther's Run," is suspending publication, but the story is supposed to appear in an anthology, The End of an Aeon, some time in 2009.

11/6/08: I came home from World Fantasy Con to find I'd sold humorous fantasy "Overnight Moon" to anthology Strip Mauled, edited by Esther Friesner, and erotica short-short "Fair Play" to anthology Up for Grabs, edited by Cecilia Tan.

10/10/08: My story "Sun Magic, Earth Magic" is now available for everyone to read for free as part of issue #1 of the new webzine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

10/1/08: Space Magic has received its first review, a comprehensive and generally positive review in The Fix. Money shot: "I hope that the volume does more to make this very worthwhile writer better known to the reading public."

9/30/08: I've been asked to join the faculty of the Iron Springs Writers' Retreat (next June on the Olympic Peninsula); an interview with me has been posted on the Nebula Awards website; my bio has been posted on the website for Wordstock, so I guess my participation there is official; and Danny O'Brien, blogging about my SF in SF reading, referred to me as "The Ted Chiang of Toontown," which is a mighty fine epithet if you ask me.

9/29/08: My SF in SF appearance was recorded for Rick Kleffel's "Agony Column" podcast. You can hear it in 3 parts: Nick Mamatas reading his Carver/Lovecraft mash-up, me reading "Charlie the Purple Giraffe", and the following discussion between us and Terry Bisson. It's also available from iTunes.

9/13/08: "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" has been translated into Czech, in the Summer 2008 issue of the Czech edition of F&SF. I also just learned that the same magazine translated "Tale of the Golden Eagle" back in 2006.

9/12/08: I sold short story "Galactic Stress" to online anthology Diamonds in the Sky.

8/20/08: At the Worldcon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Tor asked me to edit my blog posts about Launch Pad into an article for the tor.com website. I did so, and it's just been posted here.

8/13/08: I sold short story "Sun Magic, Earth Magic" to new webzine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

8/6/08: "Titanium Mike" will be podcast at StarShipSofa.

7/27/08: "Babel Probe," "Moonlight on the Carpet," and "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" all received Honorable Mentions in Gardner Dozois's latest Year's Best Science Fiction.

7/25/08: The signed and numbered hardcover of my collection Space Magic is now available from Wrigley-Cross Books.

6/4/08: I sold short story "Aggro Radius" to Gamer Fantastic, an anthology edited by Martin Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes. I also received my contributor's copy of the French edition of F&SF, containing "Titanium Mike à la rescousse!"

5/15/08: I sold short story "Midnight at the Center Court" to Witch Way to the Mall, an anthology edited by Esther Friesner.

5/13/08: I sold short story "Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven" to Realms of Fantasy (my third sale there).

5/12/08: The Mammoth Book Of Extreme Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley, is now available for pre-order. It includes "Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely" as well as many other fine stories by authors such as Michael Swanwick and Howard Waldrop.

5/1/08: "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" did not win the Nebula Award, but it will appear in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2009.

4/7/08: I have been accepted into the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop! This is a NASA-funded "crash course" in modern astronomy for SF writers. Other attendees include Alma Alexander, Steven Gould, Deanna Hoak, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, David Marusek, and Laura Mixon.

2/14/08: Three of my stories are now available for purchase at the Sony eBook store (for the Sony eBook Reader or free eBook Library software on your PC -- not Mac, alas).

2/2/08: My short story collection Space Magic will have a signed and numbered limited-edition hardcover edition, available exclusively from Wrigley-Cross Books.

1/24/08: I have been accepted to the Taos Toolbox Writers' Workshop! This two-week workshop (in Taos, New Mexico in June), taught by Walter Jon Williams and Kelly Link with special guest lecturer Stephen R. Donaldson, is a "graduate-level" workshop for writers who have already been to Clarion or Odyssey and/or have made some short fiction sales, and has an emphasis on the craft of the novel. It should be a lot of fun.

12/8/07: I sold novelette "The True Story of Merganther's Run" to Aeon Speculative Fiction. Issue 12 of Aeon, including my story "Moonlight on the Carpet," is available now. And "I Hold My Father's Paws" got an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, while "Primates" and "The Last McDougal's" got Honorable Mentions in Year's Best Science Fiction.

7/10/07: The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois (who is, I'm told, recovering nicely from a quintuple bypass), has its official release today and has already been reviewed at sfrevu.com. I haven't seen a copy yet. This anthology is my first Dozois Year's Best appearance, with "I Hold My Father's Paws". Coincidentally, that same story was just this weekend podcast at Beam Me Up from WRFR radio in Rockland, Maine. The reading, by Ron Huber, begins about halfway into the show. Hope you like it!

3/15/07: Illustrator Rachel Stoleru posted a cute picture inspired by "Titanium Mike"; "Tk'Tk'Tk" was translated into Hebrew in the webzine Bli-Panika; "Titanium Mike" is also being translated into Hebrew, in the print magazine The Tenth Dimension; and "Tk'Tk'Tk" will be translated into Romanian, in the fan-produced (but very slick-looking!) magazine Helion.

3/4/07: "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" has been reviewed in SFRevu ("a great little piece") and Tangent Online ("an entertaining and engaging work").

2/28/07: There's an interview with me on the Sci-Phi Show podcast (http://thesciphishow.com/). You can find it at http://www.archive.org/download/tspsoc29/tspsoc29.mp3. It sounds really good!

8/15/06: An excerpt from "Primates" has been posted at the Asimov's web site.

7/26/06: Four of my stories received Honorable Mentions in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction: "A Book is a Journey," "Circle of Compassion," "The Ecology of Faerie," and "Tk'Tk'Tk."

7/25/06: The September 2006 issue of Asimov's, including my story "Primates," has been reviewed at Tangent Online, SFRevu, IROSF, and BestSF.net.

"Cry Wolf" Science Fiction novelette	Lowball, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass (forthcoming in 2013 from Tor)
"Letter to the Editor" Science Fiction short story	The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, anthology edited by John Joseph Adams (forthcoming in 2012 from Tor)
"The White Raven's Feather" Fantasy short story	Daily Science Fiction, website edited by Jonathan Laden and Michele Barasso (March 2012) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at Daily Science Fiction.
"The Last Days of the Kelly Gang" Science Fiction short story	Armored, anthology edited by John Joseph Adams (March 2012, Baen)
"Into the Nth Dimension" Science Fiction short story	Human for a Day, anthology edited by Jennifer Brozek and Martin H. Greenberg (December 2011, DAW)
"The True Story of Merganther's Run" Science Fiction novelette	The End of an Aeon, anthology edited by Marti McKenna and Bridget McKenna (July 2011, Fairwood Press)
"The Tides of the Heart" Fantasy short story	Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy (June 2011) Read It Now: This story can be read it its entirety right here at this very website. It is also available as a free EPUB e-book and as a free MOBI (Kindle) e-book.
"Citizen-Astronaut" Science Fiction novelette	Second Place winner in the 2010 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest Analog, magazine edited by Stanley Schmidt (June 2011) Read It Now: This story can be read it its entirety right here at this very website. It is also available as a free EPUB e-book and as a free MOBI (Kindle) e-book.
"Trust" Science Fiction short story	Daily Science Fiction, website edited by Jonathan Laden and Michele Barasso (March 2011) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at Daily Science Fiction.
"Powers" Science Fiction novelette	Wild Cards I, anthology edited by George R. R. Martin (November 2010, Tor) Italian translation: Wild Cards: L'origine (2010, Rizzoli)
"Finding Joan" Science Fiction short story	Daily Science Fiction, website edited by Jonathan Laden and Michele Barasso (October 2010) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at Daily Science Fiction.
"Family Matters" Fantasy short story	Fangs for the Mammaries, anthology edited by Esther Friesner (September 2010, Baen)
"A Little Song, A Little Dance" Ghost story co-written with Andrine de la Rocha	Breaking Waves: An Anthology for Gulf Coast Relief, anthology edited by Tiffany Trent (September 2010, Book View Cafe)
"Pupa" Science Fiction novelette	Listed on the Locus Recommended Reading List and Tangent Online Recommended Reading List. Second place for Best Novelette in the Analog readers' poll. Analog, magazine edited by Stanley Schmidt (September 2010) Into the New Millennium, e-anthology edited by Stanley Schmidt (November 2011, Amazon.com) Chinese translation: Science Fiction World (forthcoming) Read It Now: This story can be read it its entirety right here at this very website.
"Floaters" Horror short story	The Drabblecast, podcast edited by Norm Sherman (Issue 177, August 2010) Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at The Drabblecast (also available via iTunes)
"A Passion for Art" Fantasy short story	Interzone 228, magazine edited by Andy Cox (May 2010) Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at StarShipSofa (also available via iTunes)
"Second Chance" Science Fiction novella	Alembical II, anthology edited by Lawrence M. Schoen and Arthur Dorrance (May 2010, Paper Golem LLC) Read It Now: This story can be read it its entirety right here at this very website.
"Teaching the Pig to Sing" Science Fiction short story	Analog, magazine edited by Stanley Schmidt (May 2010) Read It Now: This story can be read it its entirety right here at this very website.
"How the Future Predicts Science Fiction" Non-fiction essay	The Internet Review of Science Fiction, webzine edited by Stacey Janssen (February 2010) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at The Internet Review of Science Fiction.
"horrorhouse" Science Fiction short story	DayBreak, webzine edited by Jetse de Vries (October 2009) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at DayBreak Magazine.
"Overnight Moon" Fantasy short story	Strip Mauled, anthology edited by Esther Friesner (October 2009, Baen)
"Aggro Radius" Science Fiction short story	Gamer Fantastic, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes (July 2009, DAW)
"Fair Play" SF Erotica short-short	Up for Grabs, anthology edited by Lauren P. Burka (June 2009, Circlet Press)
"Midnight at the Center Court" Fantasy short story	Witch Way to the Mall, anthology edited by Esther Friesner (May 2009, Baen)
"Galactic Stress" Science Fiction short story	Diamonds in the Sky, online anthology edited by Mike Brotherton (February 2009) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at Diamonds in the Sky.
"Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven" Humorous Fantasy short story	Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy (February 2009)
"Sun Magic, Earth Magic" Fantasy short story	Beneath Ceaseless Skies, webzine edited by Scott H. Andrews (Issue #1, October 2008) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
"Falling Off the Unicorn" Fantasy short story co-written with Sara Mueller	Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press)
"Firewall" Science Fiction short story	Transhuman: On the edge of the Singularity, anthology edited by Toni Weisskopf and Mark Van Name (February 2008, Baen) Chinese translation: "SF King" (2008 issue #6) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at Baen Books' WebScription.Net
"Moonlight on the Carpet" Fantasy short story	Aeon Speculative Fiction, e-zine edited by Marti McKenna and Bridget McKenna (Issue 12, December 2007)
"Babel Probe" Science Fiction short story	Winner of the People's Choice Award for Best Drabblecast Story of the Year. Darker Matter, webzine edited by Ben Coppin (Issue 1, March 2007) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety at Darker Matter. Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at The Drabblecast (also available via iTunes)
"Titanium Mike Saves the Day" Science Fiction short story	Nominated for the Nebula Award (2007). The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, magazine edited by Gordon Van Gelder (April 2007) Hebrew translation: The Tenth Dimension (Spring 2007) French translation: Fiction (Spring 2008) Czech translation: F&SF CZ (Summer 2008) Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, anthology edited by Ellen Datlow (April 2009, Penguin Putnam) Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at StarShipSofa (also available via iTunes)
"Primates" Science Fiction short story	Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams (September 2006)
"I Hold My Father's Paws" Science Fiction short story	Shortlisted for the Aeon Award (2005). Albedo One magazine (Issue 31) The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, anthology edited by Gardner Dozois (July 2007, St. Martin's Griffin) Russian translation: Best of the Year XXIV. Science Fiction, Space Fighter, Cyberpunk (2008, ABC-Classic) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke (June 2006) Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Beam Me Up
"The Last McDougal's" Science Fiction short story	Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams (January 2006) Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Escape Pod.
"A Book is a Journey" Fantasy short story	Tales of the Unanticipated, magazine edited by Eric M. Heideman (Issue 26, November 2005)
"The Curse of Beazoel" Humorous Fantasy short story	All Hell Breaking Loose, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg (October 2005, DAW)
"The Ecology of Faerie" Fantasy short story	Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy (October 2005) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press)
"Circle of Compassion" Fantasy short story	Gateways, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg (June 2005, DAW) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press)
"Tk'tk'tk" Science Fiction short story	Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Listed on the Locus Recommended Reading list. Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams (March 2005) Spanish translation: Asimov Ciencia Ficción, magazine edited by Jesús Rodríguez Beltrán (July/August 2005) Polish translation: Nowa Fantastyka, magazine edited by Maciej Makowski (November 2006) Czech translation: Ikarie, magazine edited by Ivan Adamovic (December 2006) Italian translation: Robot, magazine edited by Silvio Sosio (Issue 50, Spring 2007) Finnish translation: Portti, magazine edited by Raimo Nikkonen (March 2007) Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth (March 2007) Romanian translation: Helion (forthcoming) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety (for a limited time) at the Asimov's website. Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Escape Pod.
"Brotherhood" Horror/Ghost short story	Haunted Holidays, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis (October 2004, DAW) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press)
"Love in the Balance" SF/Fantasy short story	All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, anthology edited by David Moles and Jay Lake (October 2004, Wheatland Press) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press)
"Where is the Line" Fantasy short story	Talebones, magazine edited by Patrick and Honna Swenson (Issue 28, Summer 2004)
"Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely" Fantasy short story	Listed on the Locus Recommended Reading list. Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy (June 2004) Year's Best Fantasy #5, anthology edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (July 2005, Harper Eos) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, anthology edited by Mike Ashley (June 2008, Robinson Books (UK) and Running Press (US)) Hear It Now: You can hear me read this story (29MB MP3 file, also available via iTunes) on Rick Kleffel's "Agony Column" podcast. Hear It Now: You can also hear this story with music and sound effects at The Drabblecast (also available as an MP3 file and via iTunes).
"At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco's Homebrew Gravitics Club" Science Fiction short story	OryCon 25 Souvenir Book, edited by John C. Bunnell (November 2003, OSFCI) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke (May 2005)
"Ukaliq and the Great Hunt" Science Fiction short story	Winner in the second annual Phobos Fiction Contest (2002) Hitting The Skids In Pixeltown, anthology edited by Orson Scott Card (September 2003, Phobos Entertainment)
"Legacy" Science Fiction short story	Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, anthology edited by Patrick Swenson and Robert Kruger (August 2003, Fairwood Press and electricstory.com)
"The Tale of the Golden Eagle" Science Fiction fairy tale	Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Fourth Place in the Locus Awards. Listed on the 2003 Preliminary Nebula Ballot, Locus Recommended Reading list, and Rich Horton's "Virtual Best of the Year" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, magazine edited by Gordon Van Gelder (June 2003) Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth (December 2003) Science Fiction: The Best of 2003, anthology edited by Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan (March 2004, Pocket Books and iBooks) Swedish translation: Nova Science Fiction, magazine edited by John-Henri Holmberg (Issue 7/8, August 2006) Czech translation: F&SF CZ (Summer 2006) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) French translation: Légendes, anthology edited by Jacques Fuentealba (October 2010, Céléphaïs) Hear It Now: This story is available in the audiobook "The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, May-June 2003" from Audible.com.
"Fear of Widths" Magic Realist short story	Land/Space, anthology edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Judy McCrosky (February 2003, Tesseract Books) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke (July 2003)
*"Zauberschrift"* Fantasy short story	Apprentice Fantastic, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis (November 2002, DAW) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at PodCastle (also available via iTunes).
"Written on the Wind" Science Fiction short story	Beyond the Last Star, anthology edited by Sherwood Smith (August 2002, SFF Net Books) Read It Now: The full text of this story is available at Escape Pod. Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Escape Pod (also available via iTunes).
"Rewind" Science Fiction short story	Second Place winner in the Writers of the Future contest for the second quarter of 2001 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XVIII (August 2002, Galaxy Press) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press)
"Nucleon" SF/Fantasy short story	Winner of the James White Award for 2001 Interzone, magazine edited by David Pringle (Issue 174, December 2001) Year's Best Fantasy #2, anthology edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (July 2002, Harper Eos) New Voices in Science Fiction, anthology edited by Mike Resnick (December 2003, DAW) Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth (May 2006) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, anthology edited by Karen A. Romanko (September 2010, Raven Electrick)
"Wind from a Dying Star" Science Fiction short story	Bones of the World, anthology edited by Bruce Holland Rogers (August 2001, SFF Net Books) Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (May 2008, Wheatland Press) Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Escape Pod.

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