I have a new story out in Daily Science Fiction today, Michigan Seems Like a Dream to Me Now.
Some of you will recognize the title as coming from Simon & Garfunkel’s “America,” but the story takes place pretty far from America, and getting farther every minute….
It’s apparently a Double Dell Month, the second I’ve ever had! That is to say, I have stories in both Asimov’s and Analog. I told you about the Asimov’s story when the author copies arrived, but now I have the ones for Analog as well–my story is Out of the Red Lands, and it is available in Analog now!
And if that’s not enough for you, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 is out too! It features my BCS story “The Past, Like a River In Flood” but also dozens of stories from friends and colleagues. An embarrassment of riches. Go, read, enjoy!
I’ve now got the author copies for the current (Sept/Oct 2022) issue of Asimov’s, in which you can find my story “Bonus Footage!” (Available here in print or digital versions.) It’s a travel show in space! It’s a story about sensible Girl Scouts and the adults around them! It’s got a quite happy ending in which no one is eaten by the native flora, you hope!
Watch this space for more about this story….
I make no pretense of getting to everything–please include recommendations in the comments if you like!
“The Voice of a Thousand Years,” Fawaz Al-Matrouk (F&SF May/June)
This Is I, KT Bryski (The Deadlands)
“Breathless in the Green,” Octavia Cade (F&SF May/June)
“The Book of Unwritten Poems,” Curtis Chen (Sunday Morning Transport)
“Whose Spaceship Is It Anyway?”, John Chu (Bridge to Elsewhere)
My Great-Grandmother’s House, Madalena Daleziou (The Deadlands)
Embroidery of a Bird’s Heart, Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas (Strange Horizons)
Hello, this is Automatic Antigrief: what problem can I solve for you today?, Jenna Hanchey (Nature)
“Give Me English,” Ai Jiang (F&SF May/June)
Advice from the Civil Temporal Defense League, Sandra McDonald (Lightspeed)
A Partial Record of Enchanted Cheeses I’ve Fed My Wife, Devin Miller (PodCastle)
Carcinisation, Ellie Milne-Brown (Reckoning)
“Cumulative Ethical Guidelines for Midrange Interstellar Storytellers,” Malka Older (Bridge to Elsewhere)
Sword and Spore, Domenica Phetteplace (Tor.com)
The Cheesemaker and the Undying King, Lina Rather (Lightspeed)
Arbitrium, Anjali Sachdeva (Tor.com)
“My Family and Other Evolving Animals,” Shuang Chimu (New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction)
“Team Building Exercise,” Valerie Valdes (Bridge to Elsewhere)
Onions, Grace Wagner (Reckoning)
The Coward Who Stole God’s Name, John Wiswell (Uncanny)
“The True Meaning of Father’s Day,” John Wiswell (F&SF May/June)
Too Little, Too Little, Too Much, John Wiswell (Cossmass Infinities)
New story out today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: The Splinters of Our Bond!
I have feelings about wood witches. And also I have feelings about vigilantes in fiction. And it all got wrapped up with a sibling relationship and the complications of “we only have each other” and…this is the result, and I hope you enjoy it.
Today’s new story is in Nature Futures, Family Network.
This one was inspired by my grandmother, though it isn’t the sort of story she’ll ever probably read or enjoy. When old farm families and artificial intelligence collide…or proliferate….
I’m very pleased to tell you that one of my stories from 2020 (“The Past, Like a River in Flood”) has been chosen by Rich Horton for inclusion in his Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition. The table of contents can be seen on Rich’s blog, here.
When I wrote that story, I was thinking about natural disasters I had witnessed, some quite close up, and some institutional failures they’d left in their wake. I didn’t really want a story about institutional failure and its human cost to be quite as timely as it turned out to be, but…I’m glad the story resonated, all the same, and I’m still very proud of it. And so happy to be in a volume with so many other stories I enjoyed, and some that are new to me, some I’ll be glad to discover.
Lily, the Immortal, Kylie Lee Baker (Uncanny)
Surprise, Tom Barlow (Reckoning)
Thirteen Goes to the Festival, L Chan (The Deadlands)
“How to Make a Spell Jar,” EA Crawley (Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth)
A Record Of Our Meeting With the Grand Faerie Lord of Vast Space and Its Great Mysteries, Revised, A. T. Greenblatt (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
If We Make It Through This Alive, A. T. Greenblatt (Slate)
Merry in Time, Kathleen Jennings (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Clay, Isabel J. Kim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
The Dragon Project, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld)
This Tree Is a Eulogy, Jordan Kurella (Strange Horizons)
“Maker of Chains,” Sarah A. Macklin (F&SF Mar/Apr)
The Goldfish Man, Maureen McHugh (Uncanny)
Move, Mountain, Move, Russell Nichols (Reckoning)
“Now Is the Time for Expansion and Growth,” Sarah Pinsker (The Sunday Morning Transport, 3/20)
“Delivery,” C.L. Polk (Fiyah No. 21)
Babang Luksa, Nicasio Andres Reed (Reckoning)
Sheri, at This Very Moment, Bianca Sayan (Apex)
To Embody a Wildfire Starting, Iona Datt Sharma (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Water-logged Roots, Cislyn Smith (Reckoning)
“The Aloe’s Bargain,” Julian Stuart (Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth)
The Direction of Escape, Sonya Taaffe (Not One of Us)
The House Snakes, Sonya Taaffe (Uncanny)
Weaver Girl Dream, Lisabelle Tay (Uncanny)
Kids! Surely they can make themselves useful around the house! But how? Today I’ve got a new science fiction story in Daily SF that has a guide for you: An Age-Based Guide to Children’s Chores.
(THIS IS SCIENCE FICTION, THIS IS NOT A PARENTING COLUMN.) (I mean, unless it helps, in which case, knock yourself out.)
New story from me today in Clarkesworld! The Plasticity of Youth is in their February issue.
This is one where babies come out differently than planned but so does the world receiving them. So…barely speculative, that’s how the world actually is? Anyway it’s near-future science fiction.