Big news: I have made the long list for the British Science Fiction Association Awards – for both Novel and Short Story.
Because hey, it wouldn’t hurt if people who vote for awards could actually read things, I have made some uploads!
First, in consideration for the BSFA Short Story Award, “The Plus One” appeared in the May/June 2021 F&SF and is about US Marshall in Space Blaine investigating an accidental death that might be the first case of homelessness on Mars. You can read my submission copy here. (This is the version I initially submitted to the magazine, missing input and edits from the editor. I just couldn’t find the pre-print proofs.)
Secondly, my novella, “The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station” which is about an engineer with bipolar disorder teaming up with a facilities manager to save her space station, appeared in the July/August 2021 Analog, is also up for an award, the AnLab Reader’s choice award (pubic voting – deadline Feb1), and so I have uploaded the printer’s proofs here.
My novel, Galactic Hellcats, a fun romp about found family and space motorcycles, is also up for the BSFA award, and while I can’t give away copies of that on my website as it’s still in print, here is a previous blog post with an excerpt in it.
Finally, here is my poem that is up for the Rhysling Award, which appeared in the Simultaneous Times newsletter in December of 2021:
Dragonrider
The heat is out,
My family is jagged–
Slivers of sulk and knifepoint glances,
Cutting elbows,
Bowing to the living room space heater.
Mom rocks in a flannel cocoon
Spitting words at us like needles.
I go up to the arctic to crawl
Into a cardboard box. I
Pull my comfort in after–
Flashlight and blanket and I
Fall into words.
My face warm at last
Under an alien sun
I hear the leathery beat of dragon wings.
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