Science Fiction and Fantasy

Novel:

Yseult (working title). Forthcoming in German, Winter 2008-09.
My Big Fat Arthurian Fantasy, based on the medieval tale of Tristan and Isolde, is to be published by the German imprint of Random House, Blanvalet. It is scheduled to appear in hardcover, with trade and paperback to follow.

Short fiction:

* "Latency Time," Asimov's Science Fiction, July, 2001.

* "Princes and Priscilla," Strange Horizons, April 8, 2002.

* "A Serca Tale," NFG, January 2003.

* "Looking Through Lace," novella, Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2003.
- Shortlisted for the Tiptree award and included in the first annual Tiptree award anthology.

- Nominated for the Sturgeon Award for the best short fiction of 2003.
- The Italian translation, "Il linguaggio segreto," won the Premio Italia for best work translated into Italian in 2006.
- It also has the distinction of being being taught in a college course. Talk about a reversal -- some of the stories being treated with my novella are things I used to teach in my college courses back when I was still in academia.
- I have uploaded the story in honor of the first International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, along with a follow-up novella, "Beyond the Waters of the World." Enjoy!

Interestingly enough, the reviews of "Looking Through Lace" weren't as positive as those of "Latency Time," but read for yourself.  

* "Wooing Ai Kyarem," Andromeda Spaceways, Dec. 2003

* "Shadow Memory," Marsdust, April 2004

* "The Tiresias Project," Futurismic, July 2004

* "King Orfeigh," Realms of Fantasy, Oct. 2004

* "Rainmakers," Asimov's, June 2005.
- Included in the anthology Prime Codex.

* "Happily Ever Awhile," Strange Horizons, June 20, 2005.

* "Dragon Time," Fantastic Companions Julie Czerneda, ed., 2005

* "Rivers of Eden," (with Jay Lake) Futurismic, July 2005.

* "Revenge in the Funhouse," TEL : Stories, Jay Lake, ed. 2005.

* "A Debt to Collect," Northwest Passages, 2005.

* "Visiting Bad Town," (with Jay Lake) Ion Trails, August 3005.

* "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars," (with Jay Lake) Scifiction, Sept. 29, 2005.
- Included in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction for 2005.

* "Scraps of Eutopia," Nine Muses, Deb Layne and Forrest Aguirre, eds., 2005.

* "The Other Side of Silence," Futurismic Jan. 2006.

* "Return to Nowhere," (with Jay Lake) Jigsaw Nation

* "The Old Man and the Sneakers," Farthing April 2006

* "Sailing to Utopia," Flytrap, May 2006

* "Schwarze Madonna and the Sandalwood Knight," (with Jay Lake) Realms of Fantasy, June 2006

* "Triple Helix," Ideomancer, June 2006

* "A Handful of Dust," Forgotten Worlds, Issue Two

* "Feather and Ring," Asimov's August 2006

* "Exit Without Saving," Futurismic, August 2006 -- Included in Rich Horton's Science Fiction 2007: The Best of the Year

* "The Big Ice" (with Jay Lake) Jim Baen's Universe, Dec. 2006
-- Included in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction for 2006

* "Blink," Albedo One 32 (2006)

* "Incipit" (with Jay Lake) The New Book of Masks, Forrest Aguirre, ed. (2007)

* "Far Side of the Moon," Ideomancer, June 2007

* "The Leaving Sweater," Strange Horizons, June 25, 2007

* "Roger Lambelin," (with Jay Lake) Realms of Fantasy, Oct. 2007

* "Mars: A Traveler's Guide," Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2008

* "Hobdale," (with Jay Lake) Fantastic Whitby, Liz Williams and Sue Thomason, eds. (forthcoming)

Hyperfiction

* Cutting Edges: Or, A Web of Women
This one too has seen a certain amount of attention.  

* Joe's Heartbeat in Budapest  

* "Triple Helix," Ideomancer, June 2006  

In the works

    Chameleon in a Mirror is a time travel novel based on the life of Aphra Behn, the first professional woman writer in English. My fascination with Behn goes back almost twenty years, and I also maintain the Aphra Behn Page.

    Competed novels in rought draft include:

* In the Shadow of Helios, a kind of alternate history / fantasy, the premise being that Greece was never swallowed by the Roman empire and remained the dominant culture for several hundred more years. In a world in which the Colossus of Rhodes never fell and the Roman Empire never existed, Kalandra, a Mage of Prophecy and wife of the Archon of Rodos, learns of a personal betrayal that will plumet her world into war. It's set on Rhodes, where I spent a wonderful vacation last year, starts out with a ton of sex, and ends up with magic.

* The Alchemist's Apprentice. London, 1672: The scientific revolution has not yet occurred, chemistry is a hobby for hacks, and alchemists such as Sir Darian Childe are the magicians of the age. In this alternate Restoration, however, Darian discovers the principle of transmutation, the recipe for gold -- and unwittingly creates a world in which magic has been set free. His discovery puts both him and his apprectice Jana Trevelyan in mortal danger, and they must uncover the identity of their enemies before those same enemies can murder them and steal the secret which has changed the world -- and perhaps even change it back.

    The most recent novel project is another tale in the world of Yseult.

    I'm also working on multi-level novel loosely based on the Nibelungenlied, but I have put it aside temporarily to return to Arthuriana, as requested by my publisher.
 

Free stories:

"Looking Through Lace"

"Beyond the Waters of the World"

"The Thirteenth Year."
    As a result of some of the recent political developments here in Europe (France and Holland, in particular), I decided to stop trying to market this story and just put it on the Web. Besides, it was so near future when I wrote it, time is catching up with me now. Next time I do near future, I'm going to at least give myself a couple of decades.
    The inspiration for this story was the swing to the right in Austria and Italy, as well as some regional elections in Germany, where I live, in which the polls were way off; people apparently don't want to admit voting for right-wing parties.