Galaxy's Game - The Serial

In rather wildly exciting news, my novel Galaxy's Game - the first novel I completed - is due to be published as a ten-part serial at Aphelion next year, starting in the February issue. Here's the tagline:

Interplanetary businessman Brett Hawkes and his companion the flying jellyfish-like alien Nirf get involved in intergalactic intrigue, planetary chaos, invasions, crash landings, sabotage and drinking tea. 

I wrote this novel over a galaxy-spanning three decades, and I have so much background information in the form of sketches of aliens, galactic charts, glossaries and side stories that I'm planning to add a new dedicated page to this website to make it all available. 

Look out for the saga to start in February!

Hiking in Latvia

 My short story Hiking In My Head has been accepted by Latvian literary magazine Strava, to be published late next year. It was originally published at Daily Science Fiction ten years ago and then published in Polish, and has enjoyed  a resurgence this year with translations in German, Romanian and Galician and a reprint at Commuter Lit. 

I now have 8 stories accepted that will appear some time over the course of the next year.

Dutch Observations

 I'm very pleased that my short story Observers has been accepted by Belgian magazine In Tenebris, to be published in issue #4 some time next year. Dutch will be the fifth language for this story.

Hiking Whilst Commuting

 A reprint of my short story Hiking in My Head is out this week from Commuter Lit. They publish a short story of various genres every weekday, formatted for mobile devices so that commuters have something short to read on their journey. 

The story was originally published at Daily Science Fiction and then published in Polish back in 2014, and has had a bit of a resurgence this year with translations in German, Romanian and Galician, as well as this English reprint.

Delayed Hungarian Conquest

I discovered today that the Hungarian translation of my short story Five Ways to Accidentally Save the Earth From Alien Conquest was published in the August issue of Galaktika magazine, their flash fiction special issue. I share the TOC this time with Arthur C. Clarke and Lord Dunsany.

This is the 6th language for this story, and my 11th appearance in Galaktika magazine.

A Brief History of Woodhouse Farm

In a change to my usual publications, my article A Brief History of Woodhouse Farm has just been published in the September edition of the magazine of the Farm Machinery Preservation Society.

The German Clause

The German translation of my very short story Claws is on-line today at Phantastikon, translated as Klauen. This is the first translation of this story, which appeared in English at Stupefying Stories earlier this year. This is my fourth story in German.

Hear You Scream

 My novelette Hear You Scream is out now from Farthest Star Publishing, as a standalone publication in ebook and paperback format. 

The main point-of-view character is deaf, and the entire story is written with no reference to any sound.

Greek Observations

I'm very pleased that my short story Observers has been accepted by Greek magazine Ef Zin, to appear in the next issue early next year. This will be my seventh appearance in this magazine, and my tenth story in Greek altogether.

 

Hiking in Galician

The Galician translation of my story Hiking in My Head is out today at Nova Fantasia. This is the fifth language for this story, and my sixth story in Galician.