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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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Aeon Flux, the Kick-Ass 90s Heroine who Takes No Punches

In the most recent Geeks Guide to the Galaxy, I join Andrea Kail, Thomas Gerencer, and host David Barr Kirtley to discuss the mid-90s sci-fi anime series Aeon Flux.

Forget the crappy live-action film, the animated series took …

Awesomely Bad 70s and 80s Science Fiction Movies

Fast on the heels of our last podcast, where I discussed awesomely bad 80s fantasy movies with Andrea Kail, Thomas Gerencer, and host David Barr Kirtley, this time around we discuss awesomely bad 70s and 80s science fiction films. …

Happy New Year, Plus a Podcast!

Hope you and yours had a happy New Year’s! We spent ours with close friends, ringing in the new year with much cheer and cheese. (And perhaps it was the cheese that prevented me from having too bad of a …

New Story in Tales to Terrify

My horror / dark-fantasy story “The Words That Maketh Murder” * has been released as a podcast over at Tales to Terrify, narrated by Maurine McLean. The podcast also includes the story “Real People” by T. R. North. …

Podcast Interview & Romanian Translation

Scott Edelman has released Episode 70 of Eating the Fantastic, in which he grills interviews me at Pittsburgh’s famous Pork & Beans restaurant. I talk with him about my journey toward writing, what the Altered Fluid writing group has …

SOLO Movie Review

In the latest episode of the venerable Geeks Guide to the Galaxy podcast, I join Rajan Khanna, Erin Lindsey, and host David Barr Kirtley to discuss Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The new Star Wars movie Solo is an enjoyable

The Alan & Jeremy vs SF Podcast Discusses “Love Engine Optimization.”

The Alan & Jeremy vs SF podcast discusses my recent near-future science fiction internet privacy story “Love Engine Optimization.” 

You can listen to it here.…

Storyological on “Demon in Aisle 6”

nightmare-nov-2015Storyological, a new podcast series, discusses my story “Demon in Aisle 6,” which was published in November in Nightmare Magazine and also Alyssa Wong‘s Nebula Award-nominated “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (also from Nightmare).

They

Speculate Podcast with Ellen Datlow

Speculate! PodcastLast week I participated in the Speculate Podcast, episode 144, hosted by Gregory A. Wilson and Bradley P. Beaulieu, and I was joined by Ellen Datlow, who I co-host Fantastic Fiction at KGB with. We speak about the origin …

Geeks Guide to the Galaxy on Jewish Science Fiction

Geeks Guide to the GalaxyThis week I had the pleasure of participating in Episode 172 of the podcast Geeks Guide to the Galaxy, hosted by David Barr Kirtley. I was joined by the award-winning writers and editors Jack Dann, and Rachel Swirsky. We …

Far Fetched Fables Interview & Excerpt

I first heard of Far Fetched Fables. the sister podcast of Tony Smith’s Star Ship Sofa through my friend and writing buddy Mercurio D. Rivera. And over on their website, you can listen to an excerpt of King of

Functional Nerds Podcast

fnLast week I had the pleasure of speaking with Patrick Hester and John Anealio of their Functional Nerds podcast and the episode has gone live today. We talk about pop culture, mythology, and my forthcoming debut novel King of Shards

“The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies” published in Clarkesworld

cw_104_700My story “The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies” is out in this month’s Clarkesworld Magazine. It’s a story about generational abuse, repression, and farmers of universes. The first commenter on the story said it would make an …

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