


Machines in Motion – Hybrid Fiction, Sep 2020 (steampunk, 4200 words).

The eldritch diner with the portal between worlds was torn down for condos years ago – but there’s one last fairy chevalier stranded in this world, homeless and down on her luck, and she needs a few things from the diner-owners’ son. The Gentry – Kaleidotrope, July 2020 (contemporary fantasy, 4500 words).If you’d like to read more of what I published this year, here are my three other original stories that came out in 2020: For any award, consider the many excellent original stories Escape Pod published in 2020. If you enjoyed one, let the world know!.For the upcoming eligibility season, this story is eligible only for the Nebulas, not the Hugos.Read it for free online (as of 2/16) via Curious Fictions.Doing its job, tracking intellectual-property thieves, hoping for another round of reinforcement signals from the network’s uppermost levels. The story of Surveillance Hub, a hard-working node in the distributed neural network AI of an oppressive cyberpunk megacorp. How about the Nebula Awards? I hope you’ll enjoy my story “Conference of the Birds” in Analog Science Fiction & Fact.Divya would make a great choice (as a two-person team) for Best Editor Short Form, too. Nominating for the Hugo Awards? If so, I hope you’ve enjoyed our work at Escape Pod, which is eligible for Best Semiprozine.And now that the year is nearly over, let’s list all the public-facing accomplishments and publications. I sold 6 short stories (3 pro, 2 semipro, 1 reprint), and got the AI Cold War novel almost query-ready. But professionally I did well, despite this week’s doxxing. 2020 in Review? This is not a year any mere human can summarize.
