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Forthcoming in The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, ed. Paula Guran. Literacy, paper airplanes, and the power of indifference.

Thanks to Yune Kyung Lee and Peter Berman for the beta.

A story about two mercenaries, the applications of knitting, and a particular igloo, forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Dedicated to Helen Keeble. Thanks to Sam Kabo Ashwell for his invaluable remarks on the mechanics of igloo-building.

Preparation for first contact gets very strange when a ship’s AI experiments with game design. Thanks to my betas: Peter Berman, Yune Kyung Lee, and Sonya Taaffe.

Fantasy flash forthcoming in Not One of Us. Dedicated to Chrysoula and Claire Alcock.

My hexarchate books, now called the Machineries of Empire, have been acquired by Solaris Books [The Bookseller]. The first volume, Ninefox Gambit, is due out in June 2016.

A work of interactive fiction (with some graphics elements): There’s more than one north by which to guide a world. Story/text by me; coding by my collaborator Peter Berman. Forthcoming in sub-Q Magazine on August 18, 2015.

My fairy tale/flash fiction collection The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales is now available in ebook format from the following places:

– Amazon.com

– Barnes & Noble

– Google Play

– Kobo

– Smashwords

If you’d like a taste, most of the stories are (and will remain) freely available in the flashfic section of this site. However, there are four all-new stories and an introduction. If you’d like to show your support, please consider purchasing a copy or spreading the word!

Cover art by the talented Mariya Olshevska.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1. The Fox’s Tower

2. Carousel Foals

3. The Third Song

4. Candles

5. The Crane Wife

6. Raven Tracks

7. Magician’s Feast

8. The Mermaid’s Teeth

9. The Dragon Festival

10. The River Soldier

11. The Fox’s Forest

12. The Melancholy Astromancer

13. Harvesting Shadows

14. The Stone-Hearted Soldier

15. The Gate of Bells

16. The Workshop

17. The School of the Empty Book

18. How the Andan Court

19. The Last Angel

20. The Virtues of Magpies

21. Two Bakeries

22. The Witch and Her Lover

23. Moonwander

24. The Palace of the Dragons

25. Hibernation

26. The Red Braid

27. Sand and Sea

28. The Birdsong Flute

29. Two Payments

30. A Single Pebble

31. The Pale Queen’s Sister

32. The Sunlit Horse

33. Tiger Wives

34. Dew-Weighted Roses

35. The Firziak Mountains

36. The Rose and the Peacock

37. The Youngest Fox

38. The Witch and the Traveler

39. Thunder

40. The Godsforge

About the Author

Flash fiction published at Daily Science Fiction. Dedicated to Sonya Taaffe.

A science-fictional retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice, involving two female soldiers, decision trees, and black hole physics. Forthcoming from Clarkesworld.

Thanks to Joseph Betzwieser and Yune Kyung Lee for the beta. In particular, I will never forget that Joe and I both managed to forget about Hawking radiation when we were working out the relevant astrophysics! Whoops.

Hexarchate science fiction forthcoming in Press Start to Play, ed. John Joseph Adams and Daniel H. Wilson, an anthology of stories about and inspired by video games.

I may also have been inspired by John Kessel’s essay on Ender’s Game, “Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender’s Game, Intention, and Morality.”