My short story Romeo and the Robots is out now at Nature.com, along with my brief 'story behind the story' article. It's my fifth story in Nature, and my second story published in a week!
Gareth D Jones: Unofficially the second most widely translated science fiction short story author in the world
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Living on the Edge of Darkness
The Spring 2025 edition of Dragon Gems is now out, including my short story Living on the Edge of Darkness. This story was partly inspired by a short story by Jason Sanford that I read in Interzone years ago, and also partly by an episode of the remake of The Prisoner.
Friday, April 25, 2025
The Camel Goes to India
In belated news, I heard today that the Hindi translation of my short story Englebert was published in the December 2024 issue of popular science magazine Vigyan Sampreshan.
It's the 9th language for this story, my second story in this magazine and my third in Hindi.
Monday, April 21, 2025
The Second Week of Quarantine
I've sold my short story The Second Week of Quarantine to Black Cat Weekly, an online mixed-genre magazine that published new and classic stories. Not sure of the publication date yet, but soon I guess...