Novels
12. The Runes of Engagement – Tachyon Publications (Jun. 2024)
– – audio via Podium (Sep. 2024)
11. The Stranger in the Citadel – Audible Originals (May, 2021)
– – print via Tachyon Publications (Oct. 2023)
10. The Tangled Lands w/ Paolo Bacigalupi – Saga Press/Simon & Schuster (Feb, 2018)
9. The Trove – Kickstarter (Dec, 2017)
8. Halo: Envoy – Gallery Press/Simon & Schuster (April, 2017)
7. Hurricane Fever – Tor (July, 2014)
– – UK & Commonwealth: Del Rey UK (July, 2014)
6. The Apocalypse Ocean [Xenowealth Book #4] – Kickstarter (July 2012)
5. Arctic Rising – Tor (Feb. 2012)
– – UK & Commonwealth: Del Rey UK (Jul. 2013)
4. Halo: The Cole Protocol – Tor (Nov. 2008)
3. Sly Mongoose [Xenowealth Book #3] – Tor (Aug. 2008)
– – Germany: Bastei Luebbe (Oct. 2008)
2. Ragamuffin [Xenowealth Book #2] – Tor (July 2007)
– – Germany: Bastei Luebbe (Apr. 2008)
1. Crystal Rain [Xenowealth Book #1] – Tor (Feb. 2006)
– – Germany: Bastei Luebbe (Oct. 2007)
– – Russia: AST (Dec. 2007)
– – Czech Republic: Jules Verne Club (2008)
– – Lithuania: Eridanas (2009)
– – France: Telemaque (2010)
– – Japan: Hayakawa (Oct. 2010)
– – Poland: Mag (TBA)
– – Romania: Tritonic (TBA)
Collections
7. Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories – Apex Books (2022)
6. Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories – Fairwood Press (November, 2021)
5. It’s All Just a Draft (Dec. 2019)
4. Xenowealth: A Collection (Jan 2016)
3. Mitigated Futures – Kickstarter (June 2012)
2. Nascence (May 2011)
1. Tides From The New Worlds – Wyrm Publishing (April 2009)
Anthologies I’ve edited
3. Reclaim, Restore, Return: Futurist Tales from the Caribbean (w/ Karen Lord) – Bocas Lit Fest (Oct, 2020)
2. The Stories We Tell – Bermuda Ministry of Cultural Affairs (Spring 2017)
1. Diverse Energies (w/ Joe Monti) – Tu Publishing (Fall 2012)
Novellas
4. Tensegrity – METAtropolis: Greenspace (October, 2013)
3. Byways – METAtropolis: Cascadia (November, 2010)
2. The Executioness – The Alchemist & The Executioness (July, 2010)
1. Stochasticity – METAtropolis (Oct. 2008)
–reprinted in METAtropolis – Tor Books (Jun., 2010)
Short Stories
90. The Dearly Decanted – TBA! (TBD)
89. Off the Rock – Virgin Islands Noir (Aug. 2026)
88. In the Halls of the Makeshift King – Asimov’s Magazine (Jul. 2025)
88. The Pipefitter – The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters (Aug. 2024)
87. By Throat and Void – Sunday Morning Transport (Nov. 2023)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2025)
86. The Grove’s Lament – Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology (Nov. 2023)
85. The Last Cathedral of Earth, in Flight – Life Beyond Us (Sep. 2022)
84. The Sugar Mill – Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Fall 2022)
83. Plastic People – Lightspeed SF (May. 2022)
82. The Contract Breaker – Magic: The Gathering Website (Mar. 2022)
81. Down in the Dim Kingdoms – Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms (Mar. 2022)
80. Brickomancer – Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories (Nov. 2021)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy, Vol 1 (Jul. 2022)
79. Category Six – Reclaim, Restore, Return: Futurist Tales from the Caribbean – Bocas Lit Fest (Oct. 2020)
78. The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity – Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology (Oct. 2020)
77. The Machine Votes – The Dystopia Triptych #3: Or Else the Light (Jun. 2020)
76. The Fruits of Their Labor – The Dystopia Triptych #2: Burn the Ashes (Jun. 2020)
75. Idle Hands – The Dystopia Triptych #1: Ignorance is Strength (Jun. 2020)
74. Scar Tissue – Slate Magazine (May, 2020)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, Vol 1 (Sep. 2021)
– – reprinted in The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol 6 (Oct. 2021)
73. Zombie Capitalism – Motherboard Magazine (March, 2020)
– – reprinted in Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn (Aug. 2022)
72. By the Warmth of Her Calculus – Mission Critical (July, 2019)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction, Volume 4
– – Belgium (reprinted/translated in Dutch in Speculatief (soon)
71. Through Sparks in Morning’s Dawn – Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (June, 2019)
70. N-Coin – Apex Magazine (May, 2019)
69. Apocalypse Considered Through a Helix of Semiprecious Foods and Recipes – The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May/June, 2019)
68. The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex – New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (March, 2019)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol 1 (Sep. 2020)
– – reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (Oct. 2020)
– – audio version podcast at LeVar Burton Reads (May, 2019)
– – Belgium (reprinted/translated in Dutch in Speculatief (soon)
67. The Blindfold – A People’s Future of the United States (Feb., 2019)
66. A Different Kind of Place – Apex Magazine (Jun. 2018)
65. Sunset – Lightspeed Magazine (May, 2018)
64. A World to Die For – Clarkesworld Magazine (January, 2018)
– – audio version podcast at Clarkesworld Magazine (January, 2018)
– – also in A Year Without Winter (May, 2018)
– – Croatia (reprinted/translated into Croatian in Sirius B, Nov 2018)
63. High Awareness (with David Brin) – Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere (Sep. 2017)
62. Shoggoths in Traffic – Lightspeed Magazine (Sep. 2017)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018
– – Czech Republic (reprinted/translated into Czech in XB-1, TBA)
– – audio version podcast at LeVar Burton Reads (Aug. 2019)
61. Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance – Cosmic Powers (Apr. 2017)
– – reprinted in Lightspeed Magazine (Feb., 2018)
– – reprinted in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume 12 (Apr., 2018)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction #35 (Jul. 2018)
– – reprinted in The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 3 (Apr. 2018)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 (Jun. 2018)
– – reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (Nov. 2018)
– – reprinted in Forever Magazine (tba, 2019)
– – Czech Republic (reprinted/translated into Czech in XB-1, TBA)
– – France (reprinted/translated into French in Coliopod, Nov. 2018)
– – Spain (reprinted/translated in Spanish in La Vida de los Bots y Otros Relatos)
– – Belgium (reprinted/translated in Dutch in Speculatief (soon)
60. The Mighty Slinger (w/ Karen Lord) – Bridging Infinity (Nov. 2016)
– – reprinted in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two (Apr. 2017)
– – reprinted in Sunspot Jungle (2018)
– – reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine (Sep. 2018)
– – reprinted in We Will Rise Again (Dec. 2025)
59. Oasis – Fractures: Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon (Sep. 2016)
58. Ratcatcher – Xenowealth: A Collection (Dec. 2015)
– – reprinted in Lightspeed Magazine (May, 2017)
57. Rules of Enchantment (w/ David Klecha) – Operation Arcana (Apr. 2015)
56. Pale Blue Memories – Old Venus (Mar. 2015)
– – audio version podcast at Starship Sofa (Jun, 2017)
55. A Cold Heart – Upgraded (July, 2014)
– – reprinted in Galactic Empires (Jan. 2017)
54. Help Fund Taphognosis Industries – Help Fund My Robot Army (July, 2014)
53. Sundown – Dead Man’s Hand (May, 2014)
– – reprinted in Apex Magazine (Jun, 2017)
– – reprinted in Lost Trails 2: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West (May 2016)
– – reprinted in People of Color Destroy Science Fiction Special Sampler Edition (2016)
52. Ambassador to the Dinosaurs – The Book of Silverberg (April, 2014)
51. System Reset – The End is Nigh (March, 2014)
50. A Pressure of Shadows – Schemers (November, 2013)
49. The Rydr Express – The New Hero II (May, 2013)
– – reprinted in Science Fiction World (2015)
48. The Seafarer – Subterranean Magazine (Spring, 2013)
– – reprinted in Science Fiction World (?)
47. The Found Girl (w/ David Klecha) – Clarkesworld Magazine (September, 2012)
– -audio version podcast on Clarkesworld (September, 2012)
46. The Rainy Season – Mitigated Futures (August, 2012)
– – reprinted in Loosed Upon the World (Aug. 2015)
45. A Game of Rats and Dragon – Mitigated Futures (June, 2012)
– – Argentina (reprinted/translated into Spanish in Axxon Ciencia Ficcion in May 2013)
– – reprinted in Lightspeed Magazine (Nov. 2012)
44. Jungle Walkers (w/ David Klecha) – Armored (March, 2012)
43. Press Enter to Execute – Fireside Magazine #1 (Spring, 2012)
– – Israel (reprinted/translated into Hebrew in Bli Panika Feb., 2016)
42. A Tinker of Warhoon – Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom (Spring, 2012)
41. A Militant Peace (w/ David Klecha) – Clarkesworld Magazine (November, 2011)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction #29 (July 2012)
– – finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award (2012)
40. Lonely Islands – MIT Technology Review (Nov. 2011, TR:SF edition)
39. Mirror, Mirror – Subterranean Magazine (Special YA edition, Summer 2011)
38. Love Comes To Abyssal City – Hot And Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance (June, 2011)
– – Czech Republic (reprinted/translated into Czech in Plnou Parou, 2014)
– – reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures (Fall 2014)
37. The Universe Reef – Nature Magazine (May, 2011)
– – Romania (reprinted/translated into Romanian in Helion Online, Oct, 2021)
36. The Fall of Alacan – Subterranean Magazine (Spring 2011)
35. On The Eve of the Fall of Habesh – Speculative Horizons (December, 2010)
34. A Jar of Goodwill – Clarkesworld Magazine (May, 2010)
– -audio version podcast at Clarkesworld Magazine (May, 2010)
– – Czech Republic (reprinted/translated into Czech in XB-1, TBA)
– – Spain (reprinted/translated into Spanish in Alfa Eridiani, TBA)
– – Israel (reprinted/translates into Hebrew in Bli Panika, Feb, 2022)
– – reprinted in The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact (July, 2019)
33. Dirt – HALO: Evolutions (November, 2009)
32. Placa Del Fuego – Clarkesworld Magazine (July, 2009)
– -audio version podcast at Clarkesworld Magazine (July, 2009)
31. Something in The Rock – Tides From The New Worlds (March, 2009)
30. Mitigation (w/ Karl Schroeder) – Fast Forward 2 (Fall, 2008)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best SF #14 (summer 2009)
– – audio version podcast at Starship Sofa (Spring 2013)
– – reprinted in Loosed Upon the World (Aug. 2015)
29. Resistance – Seeds of Change (Summer, 2008)
– – audio cast at Escape Pod (Oct. 2008)
– – Czech Republic (reprinted/translated into Czech in Pevnost, 2009)
– – Spain (reprinted/translated into Galacian in Nova Fantasia, TBD)
28. The People’s Machine – Sideways in Crime (Summer, 2008)
– – reprinted in Mammoth Book of Steampunk (April, 2012)
27. Manumission – Baen’s Universe (April, 2008)
– – reprinted in Lightspeed Magazine (Jul. 2010)
– – reprinted in Lightspeed: Year One (Nov. 2011)
– – Romania (reprinted/translated in Nautilus Online, Winter 2012)
26. Io, Robot – Visual Journeys: a tribute to space art (summer 2007)
– – reprinted in Fandom Forever, No. 1 (2012)
25. The Duel – Electric Velocipede #11 (Nov. 2006)
24. The Last Twilight – Golden Age SF: Tales of a Bygone Future (Aug. 2006)
23. The Silver Streak – Space Cadets (Aug. 2006)
22. Shoah Sry (with Ilsa J. Bick) – Subterranean Magazine (Spring 2006)
21. Toy Planes – Nature Magazine (Oct 14th, 2005)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best SF #11 (May, 2006)
– – reprinted in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Nov. 2013)
20. Anakoinosis – I Alien (April 2005)
– – audio version podcast at Dunesteef Audio (March 2011)
– – Hungary (reprinted/translated into Hungarian in SF MAG, TBD 2012)
19. Aerophilia – All Star Zeppelin Stories (Sep. 2004)
– – audio version podcast at Starship Sofa (May 2009)
– – Greece (reprinted/translated into Greek in Universe Pathways, TBD 2012)
18. Necahual – So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (May 2004)
17. Her – Fortean Bureau (January 2004)
– – audio cast at Escape Pod (Aug. 2006)
16. Four Eyes – New Voices in Science Fiction (December 2003)
15. In The Heart of Kalikuata – Men Writing SF As Women (November, 2003)
14. Smooth Talking – Marsdust (Oct. 2003)
– – audio cast at Escape Pod (Dec. 2006)
13. Death’s Dreadlocks – Mojo: Conjure Stories (April 2003)
– – Greece (reprinted/translated into Greek in Universe Pathways in January ’06
12. Tides – Ideomancer Unbound (December 2002)
– – reprinted in StarShipSofa Vol 2 (Oct. 2010)
11. The Shackles of Freedom (with Mike Resnick) – With A Little Help From My Friends (Aug. 2002)
– – Visions of Liberty (July 2004)
10. Nord’s Gambit – switch.blade (July 2002)
– – reprinted in This Is My Funniest 2 (Oct. 2007)
9. Kisses – Vestal Review (July 2002)
– – audio version on Drabblecast (April 2008)
8. A Green Thumb – Analog (July/August 2002)
– – audio version at Escape Pod (Aug. 2006)
– – Greece (reprinted/translated into Greek in Universe Pathways, 2007)
7. Trinkets – The Book of All Flesh (Oct. 2001)
– – Spain/Central America/South America (Spanish translation in ‘El Libro De Los Zombies, 2004)
– – reprinted in The Best of All Flesh (Jan. 2010)
– – reprinted in Zombies: The Recent Dead (Oct. 2010)
– – reprinted in American Monsters II (Dec. 2019)
6. All Her Children Fought – Speculon (Mar. 2001)
– – Israel (reprinted/translated in Hebrew in Bli Panika Dec. 2003)
– – Turkey (reprinted/translated into Turkish at Turkce Bilimkurgu ve Fantastik, Dec. 2010)
– – France (reprinted/translated into French at Borderlines, Dec. 2012)
– – Greece (reprinted/translated into Greek in Universe Pathways, Spring 2012)
– – Brazil (reprinted/translated into Portuguese in Hyperpulp, Summer 2012)
– – Spain (reprinted/translated into Spanish in Alfa Eridiani, 2012)
– – Film adaptation by Snugboro Films (Ireland, 2012)
5. Steam – Would That It Were (Jan. 2001)
4. Spurn Babylon – Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root (October ’00)
– – Hungary (reprinted/translated into Hungarian in SF MAG, Jun. 2011)
– – Finland (reprinted/translated into Finnish in Tähtivaeltaja, Oct. 2011)
– – Spain (reprinted/translated into Galacian in Nova Fantasia, 2012)
– – Israel (reprinted/translated into Hebrew in Bli Panika, 2012)
– – France (reprinted/translated into French in Tenebres 2012)
3. In Orbite Medievali – Writers of The Future (September ’00):
– – Israel (reprinted/translated into Hebrew in Bli Panika Jul. 2003)
– – Portugal (reprinted/translated in Portugese in Bang!, 2006)
– – Finland (reprinted/translated in Finnish in Spin, Feb. 2013)
2. The Fish Merchant – Science Fiction Age (Mar. 2000)
– – reprinted in Neverworlds (Feb. 2002)
– – Greece (reprinted/translated into Greek in Eleftherotypia in February 2005)
– – Poland (reprinted/translated into Polish in Nowa Fantastyka January 2006)
– – Brazil (reprinted/translated into Portuguese in Terra Incognita summer 2009)
– – Netherlands (reprinted/translated in Dutch in SF Terra, early 2012)
– – reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine (Aug. 2016)
– – audio version podcast at Clarkesworld Magazine (Aug. 2016)
1. Waiting For The Zephyr – Jackhammer (Jun. 1999)
– – reprinted in Land/Space Anthology (Jan. 2003)
– – reprinted in Wastelands (Jan. 2008)
– – Czech Republic (reprinted/translated into Czech in Pevnost, Nov. 2009)
Stories Published via Member Support of the site and Patreon:
46. The Elephant’s Song (Jun. 2026)
45. The Twisted Whisk (Apr. 2024)
44. The Mahogany Man (Nov. 2022)
43. By the River’s Edge (Sep. 2022)
42. The Fisher Dragon (Dec. 2021)
41. Crypto Draconis (Aug. 2021)
40. Holofernes, from His Basement (Apr. 2021)
39. The Bars at the End of the World (Jan. 2021)
38. The Inheritance (Dec. 2020)
37. The Suggestion (Sep. 2020)
36. One Last Dance Before You Go (Jul. 2020)
35. Crush Depth (Jun. 2020)
34. Where the Glass Winds Blow (May 2020)
33. An Old World’s Seeds (Apr. 2020)
32. The Widow’s Cut (Mar. 2020)
31. The Longest Distance (Feb. 2020)
30. The Atheist and the Angel (Jan. 2020)
29. That Faraway Kingdom (Dec. 2019)
28. A Girl and Her Rover (Nov. 2019)
27. The Dockmaster’s Gambit (A Xenowealth Story) (Oct. 2019)
26. The Emperor and His Totally Amazing, Awesome Clothes (Sep. 2019)
25. When the Ants Went on Strike (Aug. 2019)
24. Captain Velocity Saves the Day (Jul. 2019)
23. The Very Last Curator of What Little Remains of the Western World (Jun. 2019)
22. DW (May 2019)
21. Mr. Skin’s Heart (Mar. 2019)
20. When All Was Brillig (Feb. 2019)
19. The Scar That Stains Red the Gulch (Jan. 2019)
18. The Human in the Box (Dec. 2018)
17. A Prayer to Berlinetta (Sep. 2018)
16. Five Point Three Milligrams (Aug. 2018)
15. The Unsung (Jul. 2018)
14. The Alien from Verapaz (Jun. 2018)
– – audio version via broadcast on WFMU Radio (Jul. 2019)
13. Life Considered as a Set of Common Online Security Questions (May 2018)
12. Sweet Songs of Melody Pure (Apr. 2018)
11. Destination Day Blues (Mar. 2018)
10. The Fear Itself (Feb. 2018)
9. Chi’s Cargo (Dec. 2017)
8. Lifeguards (Nov. 2018)
7. The Boneyard (Oct. 2017)
6. The Hand That Wields (Sep. 2017
5. Sunset (Aug. 2017)
– – reprinted in Lightspeed Magazine (May 2018)
4. The Placement Agency (Jul. 2017)
– – audio version podcast at LeVar Burton Reads (Jan. 2022)
3. A Different Kind of Place (May 2017)
– – reprinted in Apex Magazine (Jun. 2018)
2. Shoggoths in Traffic (Apr. 2017)
– – reprinted in Lightspeed Magazine (Sep. 2017)
– – reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (Aug. 2018)
– – audio version podcast at LeVar Burton Reads (Aug. 2019)
– – translated into Czech in XB-1 (Oct. 2018)
1. The Man Who Spoke (A Xenowealth Story) (Mar. 2017)
Awards Won
2020 Winner – Neffy Award: By the Warmth of Their Calculus
2019 Winner – World Fantasy Award: The Tangled Lands
Award Finalist
2026 Finalist – Locus Award: In the Halls of the Makeshift King
2024 Finalist – Locus Award: Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories
2020 Finalist – Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award: The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex
2020 Finalist – Locus Award: Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories
2020 Finalist – Locus Award: The Tangled Lands
2019 Finalist – Locus Award: The Tangled Lands
2018 Finalist – Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award: Zen and The Art of Starship Maintenance
2018 Finalist – Locus Award: Zen and The Art of Starship Maintenance
2013 Finalist – Prometheus Award: Arctic Rising
2012 Finalist – WSFA Small Press Award: A Militant Peace
2009 Finalist – Hugo Award: Stochasticity
2009 Finalist – Sidewise Award: The People’s Machine
2008 Finalist – Nebula Award: Ragamuffin
2008 Finalist – Prometheus Award: Ragamuffin
2007 Finalist – Locus Award: Crystal Rain
2005 Finalist – Carl Brandon Kindred Award: Toy Planes
2005 Finalist – Carl Brandon Parallax Award: Toy Planes
2002 Finalist – Hugo Award: Tangent Online
2000 Finalist – Astounding Award: Best New SF Author
2000 Finalist – Writers and Illustrators of the Future: In Orbite Medievali