Matthew Kressel

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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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“La Dernière Plume” out in Bifrost Today

My story “The Last Novelist“, translated into French by Pierre-Paul Durastanti, is out in the French-language science fiction magazine Bifrost as “La Dernière Plume.” The issue also contains translated fiction and interviews with science fiction heavy …

October 26, 2017

Story sale: “The Marsh of Camarina”

I’m happy to announce a new short story sale: “The Marsh of Camarina” will appear in the Canadian anthology SHADES WITHIN US: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. Revenue from this anthology …

October 10, 2017

Story sale: “The Words That Maketh Murder”

My short story, “The Words That Maketh Murder”1 will appear in a future podcast of Tales to Terrify. The story is about haunted train yards, drones, the MTA, and black magic.

1 Yes, it’s named after a PJ …

September 25, 2017

New story coming soon in Nightmare magazine

I’m happy to announce that I’ve just sold a new story. “Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?” will appear in a future issue of Nightmare magazine. This will be my second story in Nightmare. 

It’s about …

September 18, 2017

Locus Review of “Love Engine Optimization”

Mercurio D. Rivera informs me that my story “Love Engine Optimization” got a nice write-up in Locus from Rich Horton: “[The story has] a timely central notion: a way of using deep data (with realtime help) to attract …

July 10, 2017

New Story in Lightspeed & Other Stuff

My near-future cyber-hacking seduction story “Love Engine Optimization” is now out at Lightspeed Magazine.

I came up with the idea of “Love Engine Optimization” after reading a blog post from Hugh Howey where he suggests that privacy …

June 29, 2017

New Story “Love Engine Optimization” out in Lightspeed

My internet privacy story “Love Engine Optimization” is out in this month’s Lightspeed. You can buy the issue now or wait until June 27th and read it for free. Looks like lots of good fiction here from Vandana Singh, …

June 1, 2017

Tangent Online reviews “The Last Novelist”

Tangent Online reviews my story “The Last Novelist” and says,

Matthew Kressel writes a hauntingly sweet and tragic story in “The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard).” Reuth, the last novelist in the

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April 7, 2017

Quick Sip Reviews on “The Last Novelist”

Quick Sip Reviews has some nice things to say about my story “The Last Novelist” now up at Tor.com.

This is a story of longing and of looking back. Of decline—in health, in life. And of finding

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April 4, 2017

Mad Hatters and March Hares

If you attended the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading back in November with John Langan and yours truly, you might remember the story I read called “In Memory of a Summer’s Day.” That story will appear in an …

March 21, 2017

“The Last Novelist” Is Out Today

Today is the release date my of science fiction short story “The Last Novelist,” which you can read right now at Tor.com. Here’s the synopsis:

“The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)” by Matthew …

March 15, 2017

Interview in Outer Places

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Mahon of Outer Places and the interview gone up live on their website. I talk about the Singularity, data privacy, technological ethics, and my long and short fiction.

You can …

February 22, 2017

“Great Game” up at Hex Publishers & “The Last Novelist” Presale


My story, “The Great Game at the End of the World” is up now at Hex Publishers. After a bizarre apocalypse that shatters Russell’s neighborhood into floating chunks of property and unleashes horrid creatures into the world, he must …

February 2, 2017

Arisia Schedule

I’ll be at the Arisia convention in Boston this weekend. It’s a great convention, and I’m looking forward to it! Here’s my schedule. Hope to see you there!

Story Architecture: How to Plot Your Story
Marina 3, Writing, Sat 5:30 …

January 13, 2017

Cover Art for “The Last Novelist”

Tor.com recently posted the cover art by Scott Bakal for my upcoming story “The Last Novelist,” and all I can say is, Wow. The colors are just so striking and stunning. I love the giant fish in …

January 9, 2017

Cyber World Release and Story Reviews

cover_cyber-worldCyber World, the anthology of cyberpunk stories edited by Jason Heller & Josh Viola is now on sale. The anthology contains my story “The Singularity is in Your Hair,” about a girl with a severe form of muscular …

November 10, 2016

World Fantasy Convention & Story Sale

I’ll be attending the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio from October 27-30. I’ll be doing a reading at Friday at 3pm in Union D, in which I plan to read a new, unpublished story. I’ve been working hard on …

October 21, 2016

Publishers Weekly Praises Cyber World

cover_cyber-worldPublishers Weekly calls Cyber World “outstanding” and they mention a few stories, including my “The Singularity is in Your Hair,” plus stories from E. Lily Yu, Paul Graham Raven, and Madeline Ashby. Happy to see the book getting …

September 30, 2016

“The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)” sold to Tor.com

Tor.com

Tor.comI’m supremely happy to announce that Ellen Datlow has bought my story “The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)” for Tor.com. I’ve been a fan of Tor.com and its regular fiction since its debut, and it’s awesome …

August 3, 2016

Launch Pad Anthology Part of Story Bundle

The Launch Pad anthology, edited by Jody Lynn Nye and Michael Brotherton, is one of fourteen great science fiction titles now available as the Adventure SF Bundle at http://storybundle.com. Name your own price, and a portion of the proceeds …

June 27, 2016
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About Matt

I am a 3x Nebula Award finalist, a World Fantasy Award finalist, and a Eugie Award Finalist. I have published more than seventy short stories, two novels, and I am the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan. I am also the creator of the Moksha submissions system, among other things.

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