The apocalypse is a Big Deal

By which I mean, The End is Now is a Kindle "Big Deal" (99 cents!) until January 25th.

My story in this anthology, "Twilight of the Music Machines," also made it onto Tangent's "Recommended Reading" list for 2014. Those who like this sort of thing, etc.

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Friday, January 09, 2015

anthologies, apocalypse, recommendations, science fiction

The End is Now, again, and Mirror Dance

The autumn issue of Mirror Dance is up, and The End is Now, the second book in The Apocalypse Triptych, is now available. I edited the former,  I'm in the latter, and both, in my humble opinion, are excellent. Happy reading!

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Monday, September 01, 2014

anthologies, apocalypse, editing, Mirror Dance, writing

March News

• ~ The Spring 2014 issue of Mirror Dance is now online, with (as usual) a fantastic mix of familiar names and exciting newcomers.

• ~ The March 2014 issue of Niteblade is also online, and Mirror Dance readers should recognize - or will recognize, after our summer issue - every name on the poetry page. ;-) And when you're done reading the lovely poetry, you can slide over to the fiction end of things and check out my fairy-tale retelling, "Godfather."

• ~ The End is Nigh, co-edited by John Joseph  Adams and Hugh Howey, is officially now in Kindle and trade paperback. In addition to my "Houses Without Air," this anthology is full of stories from awesome writers like Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Jake Kerr, Sarah Langan, and Paolo Bacigalupi. 

Later this month, my story "The Sons of Zeruiah" will be published in King David and the Spiders from Mars. Four new poems will also be featured in the revived Flytrap.

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Saturday, March 01, 2014

anthologies, apocalypse, editing, Mirror Dance, Niteblade, publishing

I, for one, welcome the oncoming apocalypse

My new story, "Houses Without Air,” will be published in THE END IS NIGH, the first volume of The Apocalypse Triptych, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey. The book goes on sale March 1, but is available for pre-order now.

Here’s the cover copy:

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.

THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.

"Final  Exam" will also be reprinted in Wastelands 2, the follow-up to JJA's very successful Wastelands anthology, coming February 2015. The table of contents is crazy impressive! 

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

anthologies, apocalypse, publishing, weird fiction, writing