Free Stuff

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 a free 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 free 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:

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.

Hopscotch

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Can't do nothing but sit indoors and write. What a shame

I'm more than halfway through The Sunless Countries, and things are heating up. The weather in Toronto's been cooperating by cooling things down-- it was -18 last night, with a wind chill in the -30s--so I have no excuses not to work on the book.

It all puts me in the mood to write about the nations of permanent darkness that hide in Virga's 'winter' zones. They're mostly unknown by people who live in the lit countries, as are the vast reaches of blackness that surround the artificial suns. It's a realm where 'here be dragons' could in fact be true--and in fact. . ., well, I'm not about to spoil it by revealing more.

But it's glorious fun; there remains an unlimited amount of exploration to be done in Virga. This book will add as much cool stuff as all the previous books combined.