New story today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Three Drops in the River! A lion, a bridge, a tinsmith’s daughter, a magician…and some missing naiads….
(There’s also a podcast version by the always-delightful Tina Connolly, if you prefer to get your stories that way.)
New story out today! Transits of Other Lands appears in Kaleidotrope. I wrote this story because writing “I MISS THE MONTREAL METRO” a hundred times during lockdown seemed like a less interesting way to express this. But also: I still do miss the Montreal Metro, gosh I miss the Montreal Metro, and also I miss the T-Bana and the T and BART. Other people’s public transit is a magical thing.
In this story, literally so.
Sometimes the story you want is not the story you get. The Wrong Time Travel Story is out today in Uncanny! Go, read, Enjoy!
New story out today in Nature Futures! Denebian Glamour’s What’s Hot and What’s Not for the Next Millennium! Get all your fashion tips here and find out what heavenly bodies you’ll be able to vaporize with impunity and how many airlocks your space station should have! Are YOU living in the fashionable part of the galaxy? The answer may surprise you!
New essay out today in Uncanny: Book Clubs with My Imaginary Friends! The joy of reading, now refracted in fictional form! Go, read, enjoy!
New story out today! Conjured from the Rubble is in Haven Spec magazine. Natural disaster, class mobility, and…wizards! I hope you enjoy it.
I’m walking a weird path with my natural disaster stories these days. The nearest inspiration for them, the thing my heart is still processing, is the tornado that hit my college in 1998. It can take some time for art to come to the surface, and it’s only in the last few years that I’ve really been dealing with that one. On the other hand natural disasters in general are on the rise, and the more time goes on, the more I’m looking at what’s coming rather than what’s come before, on this topic. So the balance gets interesting. I hope you like this one.
I have a new poem out in the Jul/Aug issue of Analog magazine, “Panthalassa.” I’ve read a lot of people’s takes on Pangaea, the primal continent, but when there was only one land, there was also only one sea, and it was Panthalassa, and that is where we really come from. Thence my poem. You can get a copy here.
Reprint out today! “Exiled to Gravity” appears in Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8. It originally appeared in Sunday Morning Transport, and now it has gone to make new friends with other hard science fiction from last year. Enjoy!
New story out today in Lightspeed! And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream is available for your reading or listening pleasure. I wanted to write a story about finding your place and finding your magic…only some of which is new. Yes, the title is an Oz reference, but actually it’s the Oz books that inspire me, not the movie. This one goes out to all of you who remember Ozma’s whole story and are newly delighted by it as adults. I wrote it for my friend J. R. Dawson and for all of the members of the Silent Queer Migration. Welcome home to Minnesota. We’re delighted to have your magic. I made you a story to say welcome.
I have a new story out today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places is available for your reading pleasure. (It’s also available for your listening pleasure if that’s how you roll.) This one draws on some disability experiences in its attempts to travel down into the depths and come back up again. Hope you enjoy.