My Christmas story “The Island of Misfit Toys”, about homelessness, robots and hope during the holidays, is now available to read for free at Clarkesworld magazine. Click the link!
Category: Free Stuff
Apologies for the short notice but…
… on Tuesday my flash fiction “Onward Christian Soldiers”, about childhood, grief and loss in my usual AI-centric universe, is going to appear in the Flash In A Flash newsletter. It’s free, but you have to subscribe to read it. Click here for the link.
The Lori is loose!
My story “The Lori” is now up on Clarkesworld!
This one had an interesting genesis. I woke up one morning with the first line, “the problem with sentient battle tanks is their drivers” running through my head, and the story just unfolded from that line.
Click the link to read it for free.
And here’s a picture of the skull I bought to celebrate!
Where I Am at Worldcon
My Worldcon schedule (UK Times):
Panel: Are We Living In A Simulation? (Wednesday 29 July, 10:00)
Kaffeeklatsch (Friday 31 July, 23:00)
Reading (and possibly some singing) (Saturday 1 August 22:30)
Panel: Star Wars In Review (Sunday 2 August 00:00).
Otherwise, flag me down on the Discord server; I’m open to DMs.
Free excerpt: The Robots of Death, D84 and Artificial Intelligence
If you haven’t already bought your copy of The Black Archive #43: The Robots of Death, here’s something else to tempt you: a free excerpt from Chapter Four, on D84, artificial intelligence and artificial stupidity.
Live reading: “The Little Car Dreams of Gasoline”
Here’s a video of me doing a reading for the BSFA Vector Solidarity Salon reading series. The story is “The Little Car Dreams of Gasoline”, published in On Spec magazine in 2016.
And one of my cats gets involved.
BSFA Vector Solidarity Salon #7
I’m going to be giving a reading this Thursday in the BSFA Vector’s Solidarity Salon! I’m on at 8:45, following Chinelo Onwualu at 8:15. The Facebook event page is here, and I’ll provide a link to the video after the event.
I’ll be reading “The Little Car Dreams of Gasoline,” which is my first published self-driving car story, and is a stand-alone prequel to my novel Driving Ambition.
“Jolene” for free
You get a car, and you get a car, and everybody gets a car! I’m making my BSFA Award-shortlisted story “Jolene“, first published in Interzone 283, available for free online. Click the title to download it and read what really happens to a cowboy when his wife, dog and truck have all left him….
