Category: Writing
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“Chisel and Chime” in F&SF, Jan/Feb 2020
Not gonna lie. I will never get tired of seeing my name on the cover of F&SF. I love this magazine. If you read my earlier F&SF stories “Wizard’s Six” or “Dragon’s Teeth” — or the PS novella Mare Ultima, which is an expansion of both — you’ll recognize the milieu of “Chisel and Chime,”…
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Where Stories Come From: Sarge
There’s a scene in Anthropocene Rag where one of the characters is invited to play chess by a ragged wanderer in Kansas. The wanderer is unnamed, but he was based on a homeless guy I used to play chess with in Denver in the late 90s, at the outdoor tables on the 16th Street Mall.…
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Pre-Order Links for Anthropocene Rag
We’re about four months out from Anthropocene Rag appearing in the world on March 31, but you can save yourself the worry and hassle of having to remember that date. How, you ask? I’ll tell you: by pre-ordering now! IndieBound will route you to your closest independent bookstore. Macmillan lists a variety of ebook sources and…
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“Peter Skilling” on DUST: Horizons
The new podcast series DUST: Horizons is live! Check out my contribution, “Peter Skilling” — and give the rest a listen, too. (“Peter Skilling” was originally published on Salon.com in 2004, and reprinted in F&SF shortly after that. This version is slightly revised.)
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Forthcoming: DUST Horizons, Chisel and Chime, Anthropocene Rag
Next week the podcast series DUST Horizons debuts, including an audio adaptation of my story “Peter Skilling.” If you didn’t catch it on Salon.com or F&SF when it was originally published, here’s your chance to hear what happens when an ordinary person is resurrected in a totalitarian future and finds out that new laws have…
Crooked House Fictions 