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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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Long time no see. And yes, I am

Aside from the usual financial/social roller-coaster that is the writer's life, I've been doing a lot lately. I took my first official vacation in years in June--a 2500 kilometer road trip across the Canadian prairies that included stops at the Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, and my first helicopter ride--and have been trying to slow down and enjoy the summer a bit. But foresight work on the 2020 Media Futures project and work on my Masters thesis (actually called a Major Project since OCAD is a design school) keep dragging me back to my desk.

...Where I'm working through the copy-edit of Ashes of Candesce, and drafting a new novel and an even more Sekret Project. --Oh, and reviewing the pages for the upcoming graphic novel version of Sun of Suns.

And, because I'm such an inconsistent and occasional blogger, Charlie Stross has asked me to contribute to his weblog for a few weeks this summer. That's going to be fun, and hopefully will get me back into the swing of regular blogging.

Which, you know, I'm just sooo good at.