Greetings, Earthlings! It is December, which means we are entering a time of year with traditions and fellowship — yes, Science Fiction Award Season! So if you’ve been naughty or nice and can vote for the Hugos, Nebulas, Locus Awards, Otherwise Award, what have you — here is what I have had published this year that is eligible.
If you wish a review copy of anything that is not linked free online, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Novel
The Gods Awoke is about a powerful, telepathic space-being with no memory who thinks she’s a trickster goddess learning who and what she is.
A secondary-world exploration on belief vs. faith, with a first person omniscient viewpoint! Also there’s a pretty boy who needs rescuing, so par for my course.
Mac’s Backs | Space Cowboy Books
Or contact me for a review copy
Barnes & Noble | Amazon
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Novelette
“We Built This City” – my first Novelette! in Clarkesworld, June 2022. The city being built in my story “A Place to Stand On” (Analog, 2019) has now floated over Venus for twenty years. The hero who saved the city’s daughter now works maintaining it and struggles against oppressive management. A quiet story of labor organization and generational conflict.
Short Stories
“Forgotten Eyes” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies in December 2022 – Colonialism and lost folklore, explored through an enigmatic symbol and a conversation with a goddess. From the world of my novel The Gods Awoke.
“Bumble Bot” in the September/October 2022 Analog – complicated families and robot bees in an urban community garden!
“Subscription Life” in Dreams for a Broken World anthology – would you choose to live in an artificial world, knowing the costs to others?
“What We Have Done” in the March/April 2022 Analog – A flash piece combing the singularity with a Bruce Springsteen love story.
“Juniper’s Song” in Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue The space whale-herders need a new Whale Singer. Juniper needs to escape from the people shooting at her. If working something out also means falling in love, how much the better!
Poems
It’s hard to describe or summarize poems, so I’ll just put the first few lines next to each:
“If I Were Human” in Star*Line
If I were human my thoughts would be
Chimerical sparks / reaching meat,
“Eyeliner Boy” in Riddled With Arrows, February 2022.
The well-heeled eyeliner boy
Grips electric mesh in sweating fist
His masculinity fluttering silk
“Alternate Realities” in Illumen Winter 2022
I’m feeling around the dryer drum for a sock,
Thinking of all these chores repeating like bad poetry —
Daedelus felt the air pressure of ignorance,
So he built telepathy out of reeds and wax.
“Return to the Cities” in Future Fire, 1-30-22
At the end of the end,
We return to the cities,
