My contributor copies of Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty arrived a few days ago. Edited by Spider Robinson and James Alan Gardner, Compostela is an anthology of speculative fiction that represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance on technology. The collection includes my story “Plot Device” and work by David Clink, Miki Dare, Steve Fahnestalk, Matthew Hughes, Rati Mehrotra, Derryl Murphy, Susan Pieters, Alexandra Renwick, Rhea Rose, Robert J. Sawyer, and 23 other visionary Canadian writers.

“So come on, science fiction! Despair may be the trend du jour among the mundane masses, but we’re supposed to see farther. The stars are waiting for patiently for us to get over ourselves and come visit.”

- From the Foreword by James Alan Gardner

“We may be feeling a bit gloomy just now, but we have every excuse to hope if we want to. Depends on what we choose to sing as we walk our separate Compostelas together.”

- From the Afterword by Spider Robinson

Just arrived copies of Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories edited by Michael Brotherton and published by Springer. The collection features fourteen stories by scientists, engineers and other writers with a technical background and includes work by Ken Wharton, Jennifer Rohn, Andrew Fraknoi, Edward M. Lerner, Tedd Roberts, Jed Brody, Marissa Lingen, J. Craig Wheeler, Stephanie Osborn, Jon Richards, Carl Frederick, Les Johnson, J.M. Sidorova and yours truly. For a sampler of the stories, have a look at “Down and Out” by Ken Wharton or an excerpt of my story “Fixer Upper”.

I am grateful to Corie Weaver and her delightfully named Dreaming Robot Press for selecting my Prix Aurora Award winning story “Crimson Sky” for inclusion in their 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide. I had written “Crimson Sky” with young readers in mind and I am thrilled that Corie is helping me bring the story to a YA audience. The story was first published in the July/August 2014 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.