Epiphany 2.0

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

The Earth and the Sky

• THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS
  Forthcoming from Orbit in late 2009. Millennia ago, a war between the gods left the heavens and earth dangerously imbalanced. An angry young woman might be the key to restoring the balance of the universe — or annihilating it forever.

• THE BRIGHT GOD’S BANE
  Forthcoming from Orbit. Ten years after The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, a street artist takes in a vagrant found half-dead in her trash heap. This simple act of kindness drags her deep into the half-forgotten secrets of mortals and gods alike.

• THE BROKEN GOD’S GET
  Forthcoming from Orbit. Long ago, the world was united under the Three Gods — before betrayal tore it all apart. Now a revolt among the demigod children of the Three threatens any hope of reconciliation.

Short Stories (published and forthcoming)

• “The You Train”.
  Dead trains. Trains that never were. If one of them stops for you, will you get on?
• “Playing Nice With God’s Bowling Ball”.
  Little Jeffy didn’t mean to get his best friend sucked into a black hole. Honest.
• “Bittersweet”.
  On the hostile planet called Bittersweet, war is extinct but so is privacy. What is the price of freedom?
• “The Narcomancer”.
  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.
• “The Brides of Heaven”
  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?

• “Dragon Cloud Skies”
  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”
  Wolves are hunting a youth named Anrin. Some of them are human.

• “L’Alchimista”
  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. First published in Scattered Covered Smothered (not available online), 2004. Winner of an Honorable Mention from The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 18th collection. Reprinted (audio) as an Escape Pod episode!

• “Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows”
  Can love survive the end of the universe?

Awards

• The Speculative Literature Foundation’s 2004 Travel Grant
• Honorable Mention, the 2005 (for 2004 stories) The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Datlow Link and Grant, eds., for “L’Alchimista”
• Recommended Reading Shortlist for the “Parallax Award”, Carl Brandon Society, for “Cloud Dragon Skies”.

Representation

My novel-length fiction is represented by Lucienne Diver of the The Knight Agency.