Short Fiction
- Published
- The Numbers Quartet, co-written with Nancy Fulda, Stephen Gaskell, and Benjamin Rosenbaum, Daily Science Fiction, 2012
- “Scattered Along the River of Heaven”, Clarkesworld, January 2012
- Read it online here
- Recommended by Lois Tilton (Locus Online)
- “Blessing the Earth”, Tales of Moreauvia, 2011
- “Exodus Tides”, IGMS, issue 22, April 2011
- “Shipbirth”, Asimov’s, February 2011
- Shortlisted for the Nebula Awards, 2012, Best Short Story
- Read it online here
- “The Shipmaker”, Interzone, issue 231, September 2010
- Part of the Xuya universe
- Winner of a British Science Fiction Association Award, 2010
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Read it online here
- “Age of Miracles, Age of Wonders”, Interzone, issue 230, September 2010
- “As the Wheel Turns”, GUD magazine, issue 6, September 2010
- “Father’s Last Ride”, The Immersion Book of Science Fiction, September 2010
- “Father’s Flesh, Mother’s Blood”, Dark Futures, September 2010
- “Silenced Songs”, Music for Another World, August 2010
- “Fleeing Tezcatlipoca”, Space and Time, issue 111, Spring 2010
- Part of the Xuya universe
- “Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood”, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 45, June 2010
- “The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, Asimov’s, July 2010
- “Desaparecidos”, Realms of Fantasy, June 2010 issue
- “Eye of the Destroyer”, Blood and Devotion, Spring 2010
- “The Church of Accelerated Redemption” (with Gareth L. Powell), Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF, Spring 2010
- “By Bargain and by Blood”, Hub Magazine, issue 108, January 2010
- Read it online here
- “The Wind-Blown Man”, Asimov’s, February 2010
- “Melanie”, Realms of Fantasy, February 2010
- “In the Age of Iron and Ashes”, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 33, December 2009
- “Safe, Child, Safe”, Talebones, issue 39, Winter 2009
- To be reprinted in The Best of Talebones
- “After the Fire”, Apex Magazine, November 2009
- Notable story of 2009, Million Writers Award
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Read it online here
- Listen to the podcast on StarShipSofa
- “On Horizon’s Shores”, Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue 14, September 2009
- “Golden Lilies”, Fantasy Magazine, August 2009
- Longlisted for a British Fantasy Society Award
- Voted among the top five stories in the Fantasy Magazine Readers’ Poll for 2009
- Read it online here
- Listen to the podcast here
- Blighted Heart”, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 22, July 2009
- “Healing Hands”, Fantastical Visions IV, July 2009
- “Ys”, Interzone, issue 222, May 2009
- Nominated for a BSFA award, 2009
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- “Memories of my Sister”, Expanded Horizons, issue 7, May 2009
- Read it online here
- “Dancing for the Monsoon”, Abyss & Apex, issue 30, April 2009
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Read it online here
- “City of the Gods”, Alternative Coordinates, issue 1, Spring 2009
- “Murder in Laochan”, New Ceres Nights, Spring 2009
- “The Lonely Heart”, Black Static, issue 9, February 2009
- Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year (edited by Ellen Datlow)
- Reprinted in Eight Against Reality (Panverse Publishing)
- “Beneath the Mask”, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 8, January 2009
- “Butterfly, Falling at Dawn, Interzone, issue 219, November 2008
- “The Dragon’s Tears”, Electric Velocipede, issues 15/16, Autumn 2008.
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Read it online here
- “Dragon Feasts”, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, issue 35, June 2008
- “The Dancer’s Gift”, Fictitious Force, issue 5, Spring 2008
- Honorable Mention, longlist of The Best of Horror of the Year Vol. 1, ed. Ellen Datlow
- Read it online here
- “Horus Ascending”, Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue 8, April 2008
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Notable story of 2008, Million Writers Award
- “Within the City of the Swan”, Shimmer, Art Issue, February 2008
- Recommended Reading List, Best American Fantasy 3
- “At the Gates of White Marble”, Leading Edge Magazine, issue 54, December 2007
- “The Lost Xuyan Bride”, Interzone 213, November 2007
- Part of the Xuya universe
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Reprinted in the Apex Book of World SF, ed. Lavie Tidhar, 2009
- Placed 6th in Interzone‘s Reader Poll, 2007
- Nominated for a BSFA award, 2007
- Read it online here
- “Sea Child”, Coyote Wild Magazine, Autumn 2007
- Notable story of 2007, Million Writers Award
- “Obsidian Shards”, Writers of the Future XXIII
- Second Place Winner, Writers of the Future, 2nd Quarter 2006
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Nominated for a Nebula award for 2008, category “Best Novelette”
- Read it online here
- “Autumn’s Country”, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, issue 30, August 2007
- Honorable Mention, Twenty-First Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant).
- Read it online here
- “Deer Flight”, Interzone, issue 211, Summer 2007
- Placed 7th in Interzone‘s Reader Poll, 2007
- “The Naming at the Pool, Reflection’s Edge, May 2007
- “Weepers and Ragers”, Abyss and Apex, 2nd Quarter 2007
- “Calling the Unicorn”, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, issue 27
- “Through the Obsidian Gates”, Shimmer, Autumn 2006 issue
- Honorable Mention, Twentieth Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
- Read it online here
- “A Warrior’s Death”, Shimmer, Spring 2006 issue
- “For a Daughter”, Haruah, May 2006 issue
- “Citadel of Cobras”, The Sword Review, May 2006 issue
- “Kindred Spirits”, Deep Magic, May 2006 issue
- “The Triad’s Gift”, Deep Magic, February 2006 issue
- Nominated for a Nebula award for 2007, category “Best Novelette”
- “The Shipmaker”, Interzone, issue 231, September 2010
- Part of the Xuya universe
- Winner of a British Science Fiction Association Award, 2010
- Forthcoming in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Read it online here
- “Fleeing Tezcatlipoca”, Space and Time, Summer 2010
- “The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, Asimov’s, July 2010
- “Butterfly, Falling at Dawn, Interzone, issue 219, November 2008
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Placed 10th in Interzone’s Readers’ Poll, 2008
- Nominated for a BSFA award, 2008
- “The Lost Xuyan Bride”, Interzone 213, November 2007
- Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
- Reprinted in the Apex Book of World SF, ed. Lavie Tidhar, 2009
- Placed 6th in Interzone‘s Reader Poll, 2007
- Nominated for a BSFA award, 2007
- Read it online here
- “Starsong”, Asimov’s, forthcoming
- The Numbers Quartet (with Nancy Fulda, Benjamin Rosenbaum and Stephen Gaskell), Daily Science Fiction, January-March 2012
- “Worlds like a Hundred Thousand Pearls”, forthcoming Feb 1st
- “The Princess of the Perfume River”, forthcoming Feb 29th
- “The Heartless Light of Stars”, forthcoming March 2012
- “The Tamarind House”, Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel, forthcoming 2010
- “They Come Bearing Gifts”, Interzone, forthcoming
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