Novelettes

“By The Will of the Gods.”

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, online December 2020, in print January-February 2021.

An orphan adopted by a temple devoted to foretelling the future has to solve the mystery behind who his mentor’s death.

You can read the full story for free here.

You can read my annotations and other posts about “By the Will of the Gods” here.

Flash fiction

“No Worlds Left to Conquer.”

Reprinted in Metastellar, June 16, 2021.

What happens to science fiction when aliens actually do show up on Earth?

The original version appeared on the Scientific American blog network on July 13, 2011.

You can read more about “No Worlds Left to Conquer” here.