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Review of ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction

| November 19, 2025

ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by Marissa Van Uden (Apex Book Company, 2025), is a collection of previously published stories from a wide variety of venues that look at a variety of issues related to climate change, capitalism, and colonialism, along with other aspects of ecological fiction. A number of the stories in […]

My June 2025 Publications!

| July 1, 2025

I had two publications in June 2025, but one of them was a BIG one for me! My story, “Last Dam Standing,” appeared in the July/August 2025 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact, which is available now! Analog has long been on my list of markets to which I’d love to sell something, so I was […]

Review of Be the Sea by Clara Ward

| January 31, 2024

Clara Ward’s Be the Sea (Atthis Arts, 2024) is an amazing sci-fi novel filled with found family, lost friends found again, stories, and dreams. Set in a world where climate change has occurred but been mitigated in places, it has a fairly cozy storyline and an eclectic cast of queer and disabled characters. Wend, a marine […]

“Raindrops in Indra’s Net” in Droplets from the Universe

| July 25, 2023

My story “Raindrops in Indra’s Net” was one that took a lot of revision to get just right. It always had a climate change, post-apocalyptic setting and piloted mini-mechas for traversing difficult terrain, but a lot of the details within that world were tweaked several times as I wrote and revised the story. In the […]

Climate Fiction as Decolonial Narrative at Flights of Foundry

| May 15, 2023

One of the panels I attended during Flights of Foundry was on the ways to decolonize climate fiction narratives. The panels talked about many of the very common tropes they’ve seen in climate fiction that tend to be from a colonial perspective, followed by ways to tell climate fiction stories from decolonial perspectives. They also […]

March 2022 Publications

| April 7, 2022

I’ve had a bunch of publications in March, and all of them are smaller pieces! “The Fall of Ocrone” was published in Martian last year, but recently, the Superfast Stories YouTube Channel produced an audio and video version of my story! It’s a quick sci-fi listen/watch (it’s only 100 words), and I love how it […]