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I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books.  I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.

Complete novel:  Ventus

 

To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as an eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this version.

I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.

Book Excerpts:  Sun of Suns and Pirate Sun

I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available.  If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:

Major Foresight Project:  Crisis in Zefra

In spring 2005, the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts of National Defense Canada (that is to say, the army) hired me to write a dramatized future military scenario.  The book-length work, Crisis in Zefra, was set in a mythical African city-state, about 20 years in the future, and concerned a group of Canadian peacekeepers who are trying to ready the city for its first democratic vote while fighting an insurgency.  The project ran to 27,000 words and was published by the army as a bound paperback book.

If you'd like to read Crisis in Zefra, you can download it in PDF form.

Short Stories

I'll be adding new stories here periodically.  First of all, you can try my Aurora-award nominated short story "Hopscotch."  The year this was nominated, another of my stories was also nominated:  "The Toy Mill," which I wrote with David Nickle.  "The Toy Mill" won the award; but I've always been fond of "Hopscotch."  Here it is, in its entirety excerpted from my collection The Engine of Recall.

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Interviews

I've done a few interviews over the years.  Here are some that you can read on-line--not in any order, at the moment, though at some point I'll arrange them chronologically.

  • Locus Magazine, 2003. This was a two-page interview with photos.
  • Ernest Lilley of SF Revu sat me down at Readercon in 2007and we talked about a wide range of things, from growing up Mennonite to how I work. 
  • Alex von Thorne for SFSite. 
  • Challenging Destiny. I dropped some hints about the upcoming Lady of Mazes project in this one.
  • The Velco City Tourist Board, December 2006.  Among other things, we talked about the constant trumpeting of the "death of science fiction" and how that'll never happen.
  • John Scalzi, at Whatever.  This interview is, sadly, no longer available.  It was a doozy.
  • Dark Echo did an article-style interview with me in 2007.
  • Grinding to Valhalla.  This 2009 interview was a cool one, because Grinding is a gamers' blog, and they asked some questions nobody else had given me.  
  • Ecogeek.  This green-tech website interviewed me about my foresight activities and green cred in September, 2007.

 

Print-only Interviews

The Parisian magazine SF Magazine published a print interview with me in their Spring, 2008 issue. 


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