In Everlasting Wisdom
…Propaganda, aliens, and the unlikely friendship between a harmoniser who enforces compliance to the state, and a down-on-her-luck woman. Where to Buy Indiebound Amazon Buy Now…
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The House, in Winter
…ttered Wings | Book 2. The House of Binding Thorns | Book 3. The House of Sundering Flames | Book 3.5. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders | Book 3.6. Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances The Dominion of the Fallen Reading Order (Complete) 0.2. “Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship” | 0.5. “In Morningstar’s Shadow” | 0.6. “Against the Encroaching Darkness” | 0.7. “The Death of Aiguillon” | 0.8 “Court of Birth, Court of Strength” | 0.9. “The House, in Winter”…
In the Lands of the Spill
…A story of feral AIs, flooded Vietnam, and the lands of the Spill… Locus Award finalist, 2020, Best Short Story It was a quiet stretch of the Red River: glistening waters that parted under my legs, and the damaged karst pillars rising on either side of me like fallen fortresses, and the remnants of the pre-Spill factories: the sharp fragments of faceted domes, the corroded walls, the forlorn ruins of the era of unbridled excesses….
Back
…Came back from Brittany, slowly digging my way out of emails and various stuff. The novel is now at 68K words; I’m taking a brief break to research a city my main character has to visit, and hopefully I’ll swing back into the spirit of things. (I think I’ve figured out why Brittany works out so well for me: nothing to do but write, since there’s no Internet. New Year’s resolution for 2010: cut down on the WWW addiction…)…
The Angel at the Heart of the Rain
…t be on another planet. On the phone, your aunt’s voice is breezy, telling you not to worry–that she’ll find a visa and a plane ticket, that she knows someone who knows someone who can give her a hand with the formalities of the High Commission for Refugees. Behind her, you hear the dull thud of bombs falling like rain on a tin roof–the same sound that swells and roars within your dreams until you wake up in a room that feels deathly silent. Where…
Heaven Under Earth
…es of mandarin ducks and kingfishers—the symbols of a happy marriage. First Spouse Liang Pao has gathered the whole household by the high gate, from the stewards to the cooks, from the lower spouses to their valets. He’s standing slightly behind Husband, with his head held high, with pins of platinum holding his immaculate topknot in place—in spite of the fact that he’s been unable to sleep all night. The baby wouldn’t stop kicking within his womb…
Prayers of Forges and Furnaces
…dded sword. Xochipil, who had been scavenging for tech at the mouth of Mictlan’s Well, caught that glint in her eyes–and stopped, watching the stranger approach, a growing hollow in her stomach. Beneath her were the vibrations of the Well, like a calm, steady heartbeat running through the ground: the voice of the rails that coiled around the shaft of the Well, bearing their burden of copper and bronze ever downwards. Er. An Aztec steampunk story,…
The Breath of War
…for reading me in record time and convincing me it wasn’t totally broken (I was actually all set to bin the story and start afresh). Finalist for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story (2014)….
First Presentation
…A Xuya universe story, forthcoming in David Brin’s and Stephen W Potts’s Chasing Shadows. Domestic drama, children, and the price of the future… Where to Buy Indiebound Buy Now…
A Slow Unfurling of Truth
…e was sometimes hard to read. But, new body or not, he still should have known better. “Thoi, you’re not meant to come here,” Huong Giang said. “I made it clear–” “I know,” Thoi said. “But you need to come, elder sister. Now.” And, after a pause that was rife with implications– “There’s a man that has come here to Celestial Spires–a Galactic.” Where to Buy Amazon US Buy Now…
