I write a little of everything: shorts and novels, spec fic and mainstream, science fiction and fantasy and horror, and uncategorizable variants of all of the above. Here’s the stuff you can (or will soon be able to) read.
Novels
Short Stories
- “The Trojan Girl.” Weird Tales, forthcoming. The wolves of cyberspace are on the move, hunting for a little girl who is more than she seems.
- “The Effluent Engine”. Untitled Lesbian Steampunk Anthology forthcoming from Torquere Press. A swashbuckling adventure-romance set in 1800s New Orleans with secret societies, derringers, and bustles.
- “Non-Zero Probabilities”. Clarkesworld, 2009. Falling air conditioners, projectile Italian Ices, derailing trains, luck gone haywire. Just another day in the big city. Nominated for a 2009 Nebula Award and 2010 Hugo Award!
- “Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters”.
Forthcoming in Postscripts, Summer 2010. In the flooded streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, a young drug dealer faces horrors both existential and magical. - “The You Train”. Strange Horizons, 2007.
Dead trains. Trains that never were. If one of them stops for you, will you get on? Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 21st collection. - “Playing Nice With God’s Bowling Ball”. Baen’s Universe, 2008.
Little Jeffy didn’t mean to get his best friend sucked into a black hole. Honest. Honorable Mention in the Year’s Best Science Fiction. - “Bittersweet”. Abyss & Apex, 2007.
On the hostile planet called Bittersweet, war is extinct but so is privacy. What is the price of freedom? - “The Narcomancer”. Helix (2007) reprinted in Transcriptase (2008).
An evil master of sleep-magic torments a small village in the land of Gujaareh. Cet, a priest of the Dream-Goddess, must overcome both the narcomancer and his own temptations to survive. Also a Podcastle episode! - “The Brides of Heaven” Helix (2007) reprinted in Transcriptase (2008).
On the planet Iliyin, a colony of women struggles without men. Is a mysterious pool of alien water a blessing from God, or a deadly curse? - “Cloud Dragon Skies” Strange Horizons, 2005.
The sky has turned red and the clouds now dance. A tale of the Earth’s final days. Also an Escape Pod episode! - “Red Riding-Hood’s Child” Fishnet, 2004.
Wolves are hunting a youth named Anrin. Some of them are human. Also a PodCastle episode! - “L’Alchimista” Scattered, Covered, Smothered anthology (2005), reprinted in Escape Pod (2006). On a snowy Milano night, a stranger walks into a restaurant with some very strange ingredients. Is Franca chef enough to cook them? You better believe she is. Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 18th collection.
- “Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows” Ideomancer (2004), reprinted in Riffing on Strings (2008).
Can love survive the end of the universe?
Awards
- The Speculative Literature Foundation’s 2004 Travel Grant, using “L’Alchimista” as writing sample.
- Recommended Reading Shortlist for the “Parallax Award”, Carl Brandon Society, for “Cloud Dragon Skies”, 2006.
Representation
My novel-length fiction is represented by Lucienne Diver of the The Knight Agency.
