First off, let me say I’m sticking with the general term science fiction even though some of the things I write fall more accurately under the heading speculative fiction. Whatever. SF is generally the better known term, so I’ll stick with that for now. Let me also say that I didn’t always write science fiction.…
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My latest short story, “The Boy, the Bug, and the Marked Man,” is now available for free online at The Colored Lens, a speculative fiction magazine. It’s about a boy trying to work a con in a busy dirigible station in a setting that’s somewhere between steampunk and decopunk. It’s hard to keep all the…
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My short story “The Boy, the Bug, and the Marked Man” is now available in the Winter 2013 issue of The Colored Lens, an online magazine devoted to examining “the real world through the lens of the imaginary.” The story has a steampunk feel to it, or maybe more accurately decopunk or dieselpunk. Whatever. It’s…
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Back when I had a literary agent sending my work out to major publishers, we ran into a little problem–editors at the major publishing houses didn’t know how to categorize my books, especially Take Back Tomorrow. It’s science fiction, a time travel novel set in 1940 Los Angeles. But it’s also a mystery, as the protagonist…
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