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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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Category Art

New Art: “Weeping Rose”

An ephemeral ghost wanders a dark cemetery full of headstones and crypts, lit by phosphorescent mist, while a person in the foreground watches from a hiding place.

I finished a new 3d render for Halloween: “Weeping Rose.”

On moonless autumn nights, the ghost of young Rose wanders the old cemetery on the hill, weeping for her lost love. And upon encountering any living person, Rose will take …

New Art: “Ringlit Pier”

Worked on another render this weekend. It’s inspired by a painting in my parent’s house. This one is called “Ringlit Pier.”…

New Art: “On a Clear Day”

New art! This one is called “On a Clear Day.”

On a clear day, you can see forever.

Playing some more with sense of scale and distance! This render was partly inspired from a dream I had in which I …

New Art: “Offshore Space Elevator”

I’m experimenting with scale and distance.…

New Art: Desert Temple

New 3d art by me. This one is called “Desert Temple.”…

New Art: “Old CO2 Scrubber Tower”

I’ve finished a new 3d artwork today: “Old CO2 Scrubber Tower”. Back in the 21st century, in a desperate attempt to reduce atmospheric CO2, humanity built enormous CO2 scrubber towers across the globe to suck excess carbon dioxide from the …

New Art: “Saturn Spa”

New Art! Soak in the Sun’s ray’s with Saturn’s stunning spectacle! Get away from the hustle of the Earth-Luna system and be pampered in our exclusive Saturn Spa! Now accepting reservations. Call starcom link #SaturnSpa to book your trip now! …

New Art: Saturn Sky (after John Harris)

‘ve finished a new 3D artwork today, “Saturn Sky.” I’ve been inspired by John Harris’s work, particularly his painting of snow covered plains on one of Saturn’s moons (or a lookalike planet). I used original models and some free greeble …

New Art: “Desert Wreck (after Wayne Haag)”

Desert Wreck (after Wayne Haag)

I have been super inspired by Wayne Haag’s “Ankaris” series, so I decided to try my hand at making a 3d version of his painting, “Desert Wreck.” I think it turned out well!…

New Art: “Orbital Shrine”

Been playing around with my new M1 Mac, which is so much faster than my old computer, and makes rendering 3D scenes so much more fun. This one’s called “Orbital Shrine.” Not sure if this is Earth or some distant …

New Art: “Morning by the Stream”

New 3d art! “Morning by the Stream.” Inspired by a recent stay at an AirBnb in Woodstock, NY.

New Art: Desert Road

Desert Road

New Art: “Desert Road.” Playing around with some basic scenes and some new plugins. Obviously inspired by some of Simon Stålenhag’s work.…

New Art: Silhouette City

Just playing around with light and shadow.…

New Art: Late Night Terminal

I completed a new 3d art today: “Late Night Terminal.” Coming or going? Arriving or departing? I wanted to capture the feel of an empty spaceport, late at night, far from anywhere.…

New Art: Anomaly

Repair tech Leurie Mu floats outside the science station as it orbits a newly discovered gas giant in Outer Deep Region 59/1009.d that is being surveyed for gas mining, when a very strange depression in the planet’s surface swings into …

New Art: “Secret Passage”

New 3d art! This one is called “Secret Passage” and is loosely based off of a D&D character I’m presently playing, a sorceress thrown 120 years into the future and seeking a way home. Here she is seen escaping through …

New Art: Sunday Morning in the City

I finally had time to finish this render weekend. I call this one “Sunday Morning in the City,” and it’s my vision of what New York City might look like in a future where solar power and a green philosophy …

Art in Optopia Magazine

You may remember my artwork “The Old Space Elevator” from a previous post. Well, the editors of Optopia, a solarpunk zine, liked it so much they asked to use it in their issue. This was really cool, …

New Art: Moonlight Arrival

I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate, with your family!

I’d been working on this one for a while and basically gave up, because I couldn’t find the right lighting or camera view (The original work was …

New Art: Abandoned Megaprinter

I finished a new 3d artwork! This one’s called “Abandoned Megaprinter”: A group of explorers come upon an old abandoned megaprinter, where the walls have begun to collapse, and nature has already begun taking over… …

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