Note: I fear I only update this page sporadically. You might be able to find more current information on my blog.
Books:
My novel Yseult was published in German (hardcover) in January 2009 as Flamme und Harfe by the Random House Germany imprint Penhaligon. It is a retelling of the legend of Tristan and Isolde.
The Dutch translation appeared as Isolde in the middle of 2009. It was followed by two book club editions, from Bertelsmann and Weltbild.
The Italian came out almost the same time as the paperback published by the German imprint of Random House, Blanvalet.
When I got the English rights back, I brought the novel out as an ebook for Amazon Kindle, adding a subtitle: Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur. While in my version of the tale, Arthur is Dux Bellorum rather than king, I doubt if many people on the lookout for Arthurian literature are using Arthur Dux as their search term. :)
A paperback version of the novel is in planning; I'll announce it on my blog when it's available.
I recently completed a novel in the same world, Shadow of Stone, which I did my best to write as a stand-alone book. A number of the characters are the same as in Yseult / Flamme und Harfe, but seeing as the love story of Tristan and Isolde ended tragically in the first book (given the literary antecedents), the plot of Shadow of Stone takes a different direction on a number of levels.
Awards and nominations:
My short story "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" (F&SF 2008) was nominated for a Nebula in 2009. I am very happy to have lost to my friend Nina Kiriki Hofmann, who lives in my old hometown of Eugene, Oregon, and is a member of Wordos, an excellent writing workshop of which I am proud to be an honorary member.
The Italian translation of my novella "Looking Through Lace" ("Il linguaggio segreto") won the Premio Italia in 2007 for the best work translated into Italian. The following year I was Writer Guest of Honor at Deepcon in Fiuggi.
"Looking Through Lace" also made it onto the short list for the Tiptree award and was nominated for the Sturgeon Award for the best short fiction of 2003.
Short fiction:
* "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Monkey," Daily Science Fiction, Feb. 2012.
* "Faces of Nefertiti," Times of Trouble anthology (forthcoming)
* "To Act the Witch," Tales of Moreauvia, Vol. 1, No 3 (2010)
* "The Bleeding and the Bloodless," Giganotosaurus, Nov. 2010.
* "Woman in Abaya with Onion," Fantasy Magazine, June 2009.
* "In the Middle of Nowhere With Company," Abyss and Apex, April 2009.
* "On the Shadow Side of the Beast," Apex, January 2009.
* "Troy and the Aliens," Abyss and Apex, Oct. 2008.
* "Ghosts of Dead Ideas," Renard's Menagerie, Oct. 2008
* "Act of Conviction," originally published Helix #9, Summer 2008, now available at Transcriptase.
* "If Tears Were Wishes," Abyss and Apex, January 2008.
* "Mars: A Traveler's Guide," Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2008
* "Hobdale," (with Jay Lake) Fantastic Whitby, Liz Williams and Sue Thomason, eds. (2008)
* "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
* "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)
* "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.
* "Shadow Memory," Marsdust, April 2004
* "The Tiresias Project," Futurismic, July 2004
* "King Orfeigh," Realms of Fantasy, Oct. 2004
* "A Serca Tale," NFG, January 2003.
* "Looking Through Lace," novella, Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2003.
- Besides an award and some nominations, it also has the distinction of 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.
* "Wooing Ai Kyarem," Andromeda Spaceways, Dec. 2003
* "Princes and Priscilla," Strange Horizons, April 8, 2002.
* "Latency Time," Asimov's Science Fiction, July, 2001.