Archive for the 'Publications' Category
New work in current Nature magazine
I love really short stories – just under 1,000 words. Nature Magazine has a great little feature at the end called “Futures from Nature.” It’s edited by Henry Gee, and they take stories up to 950 words. I have a fresh one out in this week’s version of the magazine, called “Tea with Jillian.”
Contest to Celebrate early e-release of Mayan December
I got an unexpected gift today from Prime Books. Perhaps it will cause a few of you to get gifts, too. Mayan December can now be purchased in eBook for Kindle and Nook. So here’s how this might benefit you. The first three people who review the book in either platform and contact me via [...]
Very cool patch for a new story
I have a new story coming out soon in the anthology “Defending the Future IV: No Man’s Land.” The anthology is being published by Dark Quest Books, and was edited by Mike McPhail. Each story gets a patch that illustrates the story. Here is the patch for “Cracking the Sky.” More on the anthology and [...]
Robotics, Synchronicity, and Tales for Canterbury
I’ve been writing about robots this past year or so. While I was preparing for a speech and looking deeply at robotics, story ideas fell out the air around me as I realized how much good work is happening in robotics. One of those stories is “The Robot’s Girl” which was published in Analog last [...]
Found in the Mail: Two anthologies
DAW sent me not one but two new two presents for the new year. One of them is Love and Rockets, a delightful-looking anthology edited by Kerrie Hughes: I love the cover. My story is the first up in the anthology, but I advise not stopping there – there is a pile of stories by [...]
If You Care About the Sea
You might want to pick up Book View Café’s benefit anthology for gulf relief. It’s only $4.99, available in a number of electronic formats. I have an original essay in it (almost more like an original rant) on the dangers of ignoring the ocean. There is original and reprint fiction, poetry, and other essays in [...]
Good Things in Threes
Most days, I still feel pretty invisible. I’m certainly not a famous science fiction writer, and no geek household name like Cory Doctorow or Charlie Stross that gets thrown around the interwebs regularly. But today is a very pleasant writer/futurist day from the point of being engaged in the bigger community conversation. ABCnews included quotes [...]
Coming Events
I’ve missed mentioning multiple appearences of me and/or my work: The story, “My Father’s Singularity” is up at Clarkesworld in issue #45. Note that I share this issue with delightful Nina Kiriki Hoffman and her story is excellent. Two science fiction stories written by women in one issue, and in what is becoming the premiere [...]
New Fiction Available
I have two rather long stories out and available right now, which is a lovely way to start the new year. One is “The Robot’s Girl” which is in the April issue of Analog (on sale now at newsstands and for the Kindle). I’ve received three notes from people who’ve read it so far and [...]
Linkages and Trivia
Congratulations to Cherie Priest for winning the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Award for Boneshaker. There is an article in the Seattle Times, and here is a link to my reading recommendation for the book. The linkage between man and machine is growing every day. I call it “The Tender Mashup” in this month’s installment of my [...]
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