My short story Romeo and the Robots has been accepted by Farsi (Persian) webzine Metaphor Space. This makes four languages for this story and will be my third story in Farsi.
The fifth and final of my Yorick stories, Ogres, Beavers and Other Mythical Creatures, has been accepted by Romanian magazine Galaxia 42. That's the whole series now available in Hungarian and Romanian. It's due to appear in the June issue.
New daily flash fiction webzine Quotidian Bagatelle has accepted two of my stories, to appear in May and June:
I'm very pleased that my short story Romeo and the Robots has been accepted by Greek magazine Ef-Zin. This will be my ninth story to have appeared in that magazine, and my twelfth in Greek altogether. It should be in the next issue due out in July.
My short story Romeo and the Robots has been accepted by Cuban magazine Korad to be translated into Spanish for their next issue. This will be the first translation of this story, my second story in Korad and my nineteenth story in Spanish altogether.
More good news to finish off the year: I've sold my short story Living on the Edge of Darkness to Polish magazine Nowa Fantastyka. This story appeared in Dragon Gems earlier this year and this will be its first translation. It will be my second story in Nowa Fantastyka and my fifth in Polish altogether.
Having signed the contract, I can now announce that I've sold my Jack Vance-inspired story Season of the Slumwort to the anthology Feast or Famine from Purple Toga Press. The anthology will contain food-related stories, and my story revolves around the eponymous and unappetising slumwort. Looking forward to seeing the anthology in print early next year.
Three of my short stories are being translated into Thai and will appear on the website of the Thai Science Fiction Club next month: The Gondolier, Englebert and The Second Week of Quarantine.
These will be my first stories in Thai, making this my 37th language.
I'm very pleased that my short story The Second Week of Quarantine, which appeared earlier this year in Black Cat Weekly, has been accepted by Dutch magazine SF Terra. This is the fourth translation I'm now expecting for this story, and will be my fourth appearance in SF Terra.
My short story Accountability has been accepted by Dutch genre magazine In Tenebris. They're a very well organised team - this is for the September 2026 issue!
This will be my fifth story in Dutch, and the first translation for this story.
My short story The Second Week of Quarantine, recently published at Black Cat Weekly, has been accepted by Greek magazine Ef-Zin to be published in the January issue - my first confirmed story for 2026. This will be my eighth story in that magazine, and my eleventh in Greek altogether.
I'm very pleased to have sold a second story to Black Cat Weekly, following on from the recently-published The Second Week of Quarantine. This time it's my dieselpunk story A Breath of Fresh Air. It seemed like the ideal magazine, publishing as it does classic sci fi and historical fiction as well as new stories, and indeed the editor evidently thought the same.
My short story In Response to Your Reader, first published in Nature magazine, has been accepted by Farsi magazine Metaphor Space. This will be my second story there, and the sixth language for this story.
My flurry of Yorick story publications is set to continue, with the third story Aurochs, Cave Bears and Other Charismatic Megafauna accepted by Romanian magazine Galaxia 42 and set to appear in the August issue.
So far this year , Yorick II was published in Romanian, Yorick IV in Slovenian and published as a podcast in English, and Yorick III reprinted in English in a Slovenian magazine.
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...
I'm very pleased to announce that I've sold my short story Romeo and the Robots to Nature magazine, my fifth sale to that august publication. I don't have a publication date yet, but presumably some time this year.
This is my third Shakespearian science fiction story.
Between myself, Alex and Haydn, we've written several Galaxy's Game side stories. These are flash fiction length stories about side characters in the novel, either about what they were doing just before they turned up in the story, or what they did afterwards.
The first of these, The Last Noodle, has been accepted by Aphelion magazine. Hopefully the others will be too.
A day after my 2nd Yorick story was accepted by a Romanian magazine, my 4th Yorick story has been accepted by Supernova magazine to be published in Slovenian. No confirmed date yet, but some time later this year I guess.
