Short Fiction

“A Stone’s Throw” (Neptune’s reach series)

forthcoming in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact.

“STriding the Blast”

forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Nov-Dec 2021.

“In a net I seek to hold the wind” (Neptune’s reach series)

published in Clarkesworld, September 2021.

“The Children of the wind” (Neptune’s reach series)

published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June-July 2021.

“Wandering rocks” (Neptune’s reach series)

published in Clarkesworld, October 2020.

“The WaLL”

published in The Enneadecameron, May 4, 2020.

“Cloud-Born” (Neptune’s reach series)

published in Clarkesworld, November 2019. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 ed. Richard Horton, Prime Books, Rockville, 2020 and in The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories ed. Allan Kaster, Infinivox, 2020.

“Sunken Gardens”

published in Mission Critical, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, New York, 2019.

“The Bridge of Dreams” (Neptune’s reach series)

published in Clarkesworld, April 2016. Reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books, Rockville, 2017.

“Awskonomuk”

published in Otherworldly Maine, ed. Noreen Doyle, DownEast (no place of pub. given), 2008.

“Fancy Bread”

published in TEL: Stories ed. Jay Lake, Wilsonville OR, Wheatland Press, 2005. Reprinted in Fantasy: the Best of the Year 2006 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books, Rockville, 2006.

“Giliad”

published in The First Heroes, ed. Noreen Doyle and Harry Turtledove, New York, Tor Books, April 2004. Reprinted in In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World, ed. Douglas Lain, Night Shade Books, New York, 2015

“Arabian Wine”

published in Asimov's Science Fiction (New York), March-April 2004. Reprinted in Best Short Novels 2005, ed. Jonathan Strahan, New York, Science Fiction Book Club, May 2005.

“False Vacuum”

published in Beyond the Last Star, ed. Sherwood Smith, Plano TX, SFF Net, September 2002.

Spirit of the Place

published in iPublish.com (New York), March 2001.

“Ladies in their Letters” (Neptune’s reach series)

published Asimov's Science Fiction (New York), June 1999.

“Animae Celestes”

published Asimov's Science Fiction (New York), April 1998.

“Scatchophily”

published in Alternate Skiffy, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Mike Resnick, Newark NJ, Wildside Press, 1978.

“The Truest Chill” (Neptune's Reach Series)

published in Science Fiction Age (Herndon, VA), Nov 1997.

“On the Ice Islands” (Neptune's Reach Series)

published in Asimov's Science Fiction (New York), Oct-Nov 1997.

“The Crab Lice”

published in Alternate Tyrants, ed. Mike Resnick, New York, Tor Books, 1997. Reprinted in Nebula Award Stories 33, ed. Connie Willis, Harcourt Brace, 1998.

“The Weighing of Ayre”

published in Starlight 1, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, New York, Tor Books, 1996. Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Vol. 14, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997.

“The Drowning Cell”

published in A Starfarer's Dozen, ed. Michael Stearns, New York, Harcourt Brace, 1995.

“How Far to th'End of the World?” (Neptune's Reach series)

published in Science Fiction Age (Herndon, VA), 1995.

“A Passion for the Souls Below”

published in Deals With the Devil, ed. Mike Resnick, New York, DAW Books, 1994.

“My Tongue in Thy Tale”

published Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, New York, Tor Books, 1994.

“Printer's Devils”

published in Alien Pregnant by Elvis, ed. Esther Friesner, New York, DAW Books, 1994.

“Aweary of the Sun”

published in Weird Tales From Shakespeare, ed. Katharine Kerr, New York,  DAW Books, 1994.  Reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Vol. 8, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1995.

“Reversals” (Neptune’s reach series)

published in Science Fiction Age (Herndon, VA),  September 1993.

“The Mind's Place” (Neptune’s reach series)

published in Full Spectrum 4, ed. Lou Aronica et al., New York,  Bantam Books, 1993.

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dinosaur”

published in Dinosaur Fantastic, ed. Mike Resnick, New York, DAW Books, 1993.

“The Boulevard of Broken Domes”

published in Interzone #53(Brighton UK), November 1991.

“A Different Drumstick”

published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (New York), November 1988.

“Neptune's Reach” (Neptune's Reach series)

published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (New York), Mid-December 1986.

“The Light at the End of the Penumbra”

published in Ascents of Wonder, ed. David Gerrold, New York, Popular Library, 1977.