adelaidesean: (glitter negative)
The two novellas I have out this year are not only substantial (>20k) and therefore great bang for your buck, but two of the best things I’ve ever written. As if that weren’t enough, they also connect to existing stories--so if you want to know what finally happens to Ros and Adi, the two most famous lovers in the world of the Change, or if you want to learn more about the world of “A Map of the Mines of Barnath” and “Inevitable”*, then these stories are for you. (And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, never fear: they also completely stand alone.)

They are “The Spark (A Romance in Four Acts)” now out in Legends of Australian Fantasy and “A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (& the Threat it Entails)” from Godlike Machines, long-delayed but scheduled to be out in time for Worldcon.

The novella is such a wonderful length to write to in sf&f, and wonderful to read, too. I hope you enjoy these two, if you get the opportuity.

          

* From the Locus Award-winning anthology The New Space Opera 2. Yay, Jonathan Strahan! (Without whom neither of these novellas would have existed.)

adelaidesean: (flight to mars)
I'm absolutely delighted to have had a piece accepted for publication in Godlike Machines, an anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan, featuring Stephen Baxter, Cory Doctorow, Greg Egan, Robert Reed, and Alastair Reynolds.

Part of the Science Fiction Book Club's original anthology series (which includes such wonderful titles as Forbidden Planets, Galactic Empires and Alien Crimes), Godlike Machines is composed entirely of six or so novellas inspired by this particular theme.

Unlike Cenotaxis, "A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (and the Threat It Entails)"* isn't set in the Astropolis universe. It taps into a world I first wrote about in 1992, and may yet evolve into something much larger, one day. Weighing in at 24,000 words, this will by my only new "short" work published this year.

I am doing a happy dance, but will spare you a detailed description of that.

* The title, btw, was inspired by the following Einstein quote: "I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature." Smart fellow, that one.

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