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New recipe: couscous

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…A classic Maghrebin dish served with semolina. Don’t expect authenticity, I did a mix and match because I didn’t have harissa or ras el hanout in my pantry… Recipe here, let me know what you think!…

Ship’s Brother

…A Xuya universe story. You never liked your sister. I know you tried your best; that you would stay awake at night thinking on filial piety and family duty; praying to your ancestors and the bodhisattva Quan Am to find strength; but that it would always come back to that core of dark thoughts within you, that fundamental fright you carried with you like a yin shadow in your heart….

The Princess of the Perfume River

…. Except that Thien was the princess, the captive one–if the city of Hue could be a tower, and guiding tourists through the ruins of the Citadel be compared to reading books and embroidering silk cloth for ceremonies….

Scattered Along the River of Heaven

…eaven So tell me Is it fitting that I spend my days here A guest in those dark, forlorn halls? # This is the first poem Xu Anshi gave to us; the first memory she shared with us for safekeeping. It is the first one that she composed in High Mheng—which had been and remains a debased language, a blend between that of the San-Tay foreigners, and that of the Mheng, Anshi’s own people. Shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, 2012….

The Heartless Light of Stars

Part of The Numbers Quartet, co-written with Nancy Fulda, Stephen Gaskell, and Benjamin Rosenbaum, Daily Science Fiction, 2012. speed of light: a physical constant denoting the speed of light in a vacuum, important in many areas of physics, and valued at 299,792,458 meters per second. It is the maximum speed at which all energy, matter, and information in the universe can travel–symbol c, postulated in Einstein’s special theory of relativity in 1…

Immersion

…too wide, skin that feels too pale, an odd, distant smell wafting from the compartment’s ambient system that is neither incense nor garlic, but something else, something elusive that you once knew. You’re dressed, already—not on your skin, but outside, where it matters, your avatar sporting blue and black and gold, the stylish clothes of a well-traveled, well-connected woman. For a moment, as you turn away from the mirror, the glass shimmers out o…

Sale: “The Dust Queen” to Reach for Infinity

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Pleased to announce I’ve sold “The Dust Queen” to Jonathan Strahan’s upcoming anthology Reach for Infinity. The full table of contents is here; quite pleased to be sharing with Al Reynolds, Hannu Rajaniemi, and Pat Cadigan, among other luminaries of the genre. Many thanks for this are due to a sharp-eyed team of critters: Mary Robinette Kowal, D Franklin, Max Edwards, and Joe Iriarte; and also to Ken Liu and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, who took a look a…