Hugo nominations are nearly closed out. For the record, here is a selected list of my own favorite work of this past year, should you be inclined to review it for award consideration in your own nominating process.

Novels
Pinion, Tor Books
Third volume in the Mainspring cycle, action-adventure in the clockwork Earth.

Novellas
The Baby Killers, PS ( Read more... )

Nominations are open for the Nebula (through mid-February) and Hugo (through late March) awards.

For the record, here is a selected list of my own favorite work of this past year, should you be inclined to review it for award consideration in your own nominating process.

Novels
Pinion, Tor Books
Third volume in the Mainspring cycle, action- ( Read more... )

A reader reviews Pinion - Not so much with the liking.

What steampunk means to me - A commentary. I agree with Callaway; as I've said before I see steampunk as 'skin' or an aesthetic, not a movement qua cyberpunk or New Weird. I wrote "The Baby Killers" in part to address this, to try to reach for steampunk themes. We shall see if I have succeeded ( Read more... )

A rather nice review of Mainspring From Alex J. Kane.

My single-title novella "The Baby Killers" is up for pre-order - With a nice write-up.

My short story "The Dead Man's Child" is up at Cosmos

Podcast of my widely-reprinted short story "On the Human Plan"

Fifty Years of Romance and Research or a Jungle-Wallah at Large - My new favorite book ( Read more... )