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“Sword of the Silent”
Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence
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“Now We Paint Worlds”
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2021 Edition
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“Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air”
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six
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“Now We Paint Worlds”
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“Your Future is Pending”
Science Fiction World
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“Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air”
Lightspeed Magazine
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“The Marsh of Camarina”
Lightspeed Magazine - Issue 121
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“Very Surely Do I Not Dream”
Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena
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“Your Future is Pending”
Clarkesworld Magazine #158
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Queen of Static
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“Truth is Like the Sun”
Lightspeed Magazine 108
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“The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard)”
2019 Nebula Awards Showcase
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“White Roses in Their Eyes”
Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People
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“Love Engine Optimization”
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition
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“The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard)”
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3
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“The Walk to Distant Suns”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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“The Marsh of Camarina”
Shades Within Us
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“Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?”
Nightmare Magazine 63
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“In Memory of a Summer’s Day”
Mad Hatters and March Hares
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“The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard)”
Tor.com
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“Love Engine Optimization”
Lightspeed Magazine 85
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“The Singularity is in Your Hair”
Cyber World
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“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye”
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016
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“Demon in Aisle 6”
Nightmare Magazine 38
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“Saving Diego”
Interzone #221
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“The History Within Us”
Clarkesworld Magazine #42
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“The History Within Us”
The People of the Book
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“The Bricks of Gelecek”
Naked City
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“The Great Game at the End of the World”
After
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“The Sounds of Old Earth”
Lightspeed Magazine and io9.com
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“The History Within Us”
Clarkesworld Year Four
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“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye”
Clarkesworld Magazine #92
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“Cameron Rhyder’s Legs”
Clarkesworld Magazine #98
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“The Sounds of Old Earth”
Nebula Awards Showcase 2015
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“The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies”
Clarkesworld Magazine
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Author Matthew Kressel

New Art: Afternoon Arrival

This one took me about a week to make. I’m experimenting with paintovers in Photoshop. That’s where you first render in 3D, and then use Photoshop to add layered effects. The idea is to make the image look painted rather …

William Gibson & Cat Rambo

Last night for the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series Ellen Datlow and I had the pleasure of hosting science fiction legend William Gibson and former-SFWA president and speculative fiction extraordinaire Cat Rambo, live on YouTube. If you didn’t get …

New Art: Departing Earth

This is a deep space vessel, meant for traveling to the Moon and/or Mars, (very) loosely based off of the NASA Lunar Gateway project.…

Why TIME BANDITS Scarred Me For Life

On the latest Geeks Guide to the Galaxy podcast, I join Chandler Klang Smith, Thomas Gerencer, and host David Barr Kirtley to discuss the works of Terry Gilliam. I remember being haunted by Time Bandits, even though I

New Art: Starship Printer

New art! In the future, starships aren’t built, they’re *printed*. Here, the company Coen Construction Megaprinters prints a CCM 2304 Photon Megahauler while several observer ships look on. CCM ships feature extensively in my “Space Trucker Jess” story. To read

Encounter on Venus

New art!  Inspired by the recent detection of phosphine on Venus, a possible sign of life, I created this new render. A NASA probe, bobbing in the atmosphere of Venus, comes upon an unexpected visitor in the clouds.…

Fantastic Fiction at KGB with Joe Hill & Laird Barron

Last night, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, I had the pleasure of hosting (with my co-conspirator Ellen Datlow) authors Joe Hill (FULL THROTTLE) and Laird Barron (WORSE ANGELS). Joe read part of “Faun,” a short story in

New Art! “The Great Pumpkin”

New 3D art! “The Great Pumpkin”
 
While Linus’s hopes of seeing the Great Pumpkin were dashed, the same was not true for others who ventured out into the pumpkin fields late one October night. But what they saw rising in

New Art: Blowing Off Some Steam

I was recently walking around my neighborhood of Queens, NY and became inspired by all the old, rusted-out elevated train tracks. This scene above just kind of came together unconsciously. Guess I miss my old days of walking through the …

David Lynch’s and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s DUNE

On the latest Geeks Guide to the Galaxy show, I join Andrea Kail, Rajan Khanna, and host David Barr Kirtley to discuss two of the Dune adaptations, the David Lynch film and the documentary on Jodorowsky’s epic but ultimately failed …

Filthy Hobbitzes

When I was very young, I was visiting Washington D.C. with my parents and found the Hobbit Read-Along book in a gift shop and recognized the artwork from a cartoon I half-remembered from when I was even younger. I decided …

“Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air” up at LIGHTSPEED

My story “Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air” is up at Lightspeed Magazine today. Gil, a religious ascetic on the far-off planet of Gilder Nefan, receives a new student, Tim, not long after his last student …

A Nice Review of “Still You Linger…”

Woke up this morning to a nice review of my short story “Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air,” which is out in this month’s Lightspeed Magazine (read now with a subscription, read free on 8/13). Quick Sip Reviews

Fast Forward Interview

On the latest Fast Forward episode, Ellen Datlow and are are interviewed by host Mike Zipser, where we talk about running the Fantastic Fiction reading series during the pandemic, editing, writing, and more.
 

Queen of Static Chapters on my Patreon

I’ve been releasing bi-weekly chapters of Queen of Static, the sequel to King of Shards, on my Patreon page, and we’re up to Chapter Fourteen so far. For just $2 a month, you get two chapters every month, plus …

Gas Miners – Part 3

I’ve been fascinated with these clouds for some reason and so I’ve created another 3D render of the argon gas miners, in this case skimming the upper atmosphere right before they dive into the gas giant’s depths.

My friend Angus …

Saving Diego – A Short Story for my Patrons

 

Back in 2009 I published a short story called “Saving Diego” in Interzone magazine. It received some nice reviews, honorable mentions in various year’s best anthologies, and placed 5th in the annual Interzone readers’ poll. 

The story, …

Gilder Nefan Sunset

New art! This one is called “Gilder Nefan Sunset.”

On the distant planet of Gilder Nefan, the devout Nefanesh people smoke the psychotropic plant known as jisthmus in order to reach transcendant states of consciousness and commune with the numens, …

The Marsh of Camarina up at Lightspeed

My story “The Marsh of Camarina” is up at Lightspeed. The story takes place in the near future, when climate change has baked the world and AI has taken over most jobs. When Sita graduates from university with a …

Home Early

New 3D art! I call this one “Home Early.” I’ve left a few easter eggs in this one. This is my favorite render so far. It was done in Blender, Daz, and just a little bit of Photoshop touchups on …

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