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Ventus - Complete novel

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.

Hopscotch

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Oh, yes, I'm having fun lately... but blog updates suffer

Just thought I should summarize what I'm up to lately, which is quite a lot:

I'm finishing The Sunless Countries for Tor. I just burned a city and the protagonist has sold out to the enemy. Ah, it warms my heart!
I'm working on a talking-book novella for a secret project. It should be announced at Worldcon. And no, I can't say more.
I have four other short story/novella commissions I'm trying to meet. This will be quite a year for short fiction for me. I rather dried up there for several years, during the period when I was writing Permanence and Lady of Mazes. But I'm back, and having loads of fun.
I'm thinking about how to top Virga. Ha! No mean feat--but just wait until you see where The Sunless Countries takes us. After I'm done with you, you'll be willing to believe in Santa Claus again.

As usual, the more productive I'm being on the fiction side, the less frequent my updates on the website. It's a handy barometer for how hard I'm working, as a matter of fact. So if you don't hear from me for a while... think 'good stuff coming.'

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When your fiction productivity runs out...

Posted by Andrew House at May 20, 2008 10:11 PM

Once this burst of fiction productivity slows down a bit (hopefully after "The Sunless Countries" is finished -- very much looking forward to that at "Pirate Sun"), you may want to add a section on your short fiction to the site. I know "The Engine of Recall" is listed under books, but having a page highlighting your other short fiction appearances as they appear would be helpful.

Good idea

Posted by Karl Schroeder at Jun 18, 2008 07:28 AM

I actually have a page but it's not "published" yet, for the very reason you mention: I've been too busy. My past short fiction is listed in my CV (under "About") but you're right that a separate page on upcoming work would be helpful.

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