Short Fiction

	Random Access Memory In Winter of Sci-Fi & Fantasy edited by Dustin Bilyk (Worldstone Publishing, 2026). First published in Game On! edited by Stephen Kotowych and Tony Pi (Zombies Need Brains, 2023). A strange phenomenon befalls people who play a certain slot machine. [Review] [Excerpt] All earnings from “Random Access Memory” are donated to the Veterans Transition Network.
	A New Brave World In the August 2025 issue of Jupiter’s Eye edited by Tyree Campbell. First published in Brave New Worlds edited by S.C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier (Zombies Need Brains, 2022). Also published in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 1 edited by Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press, 2023). Finalist for the 2023 Aurora Award for best short story. The civilisation portrayed in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World establishes an exile settlement on an extrasolar planet orbiting a red dwarf. [Review] [Excerpt]
	Hemlock on Mars In Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2 edited by Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press, 2024). First published in Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays edited by Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law and Susan Forest (Laksa Media Groups, 2023). A spacecraft on its way to Mars could be carrying a harmful terrestrial organism to the Red Planet. [Opening Scene]
	Beware the Glob! In Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September/October 2023, Vol. XCIII, Nos. 9 & 10, ISSN 1059–2113. A dangerous extraterrestrial creature is unleashed from its frozen Arctic slumber by climate change. [Locus Review] [Tangent Review] [Excerpt]
	Random Access Memory In Game On! edited by Stephen Kotowych and Tony Pi (Zombies Need Brains, 2023). A strange phenomenon befalls people who play a certain slot machine. [Review] [Excerpt] First publication earnings from “Random Access Memory” were donated to the Veterans Transition Network.
	Raise the Nautilus In Extraordinary Visions: Stories Inspired by Jules Verne edited by Steven R. Southard and Matthew Hardesty (BearManor Media, 2023). First published in 20,000 Leagues Remembered edited by Steven R. Southard and Kelly A. Harmon (Pole to Pole Publishing, 2020). The Royal Navy attempts to salvage Captain Nemo’s submarine and retrieve an artifact that could turn the tide of the First World War. [Review] [Excerpt] [Interview]
	A Sky and a Heaven In Just Like Being There: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories by Eric Choi (Springer, 2022). Also published in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People edited by Andrea D. Lobel and Mark Shainblum (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022). Winner of the 2023 Sidewise Award for best short form alternate history and finalist for the 2023 Aurora Award for best novelette/novella. In an alternate history, Ilan Ramon works from Mission Control to try and save the crew of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia. Based in part on the short story “The Greatest Day” (Analog, Jan/Feb 2020).
	Divisions In Hungarian translation in the January 2022 issue of Galaktika magazine edited by Attila Németh and translated by Gabriel Bagi. First published in Tesseracts6 edited by Robert J. Sawyer and Carolyn Clink (EDGE, 1997). Finalist for the 1998 Prix Aurora Award for best short-form work in English. An alternate history in which Québec separation divides Canada – both on Earth and in space.
	Second Thoughts In Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law (Laksa Media Groups, 2021). Finalist for the 2022 Prix Aurora Award for best short story. We can regret, but never change, the decisions we’ve made — or can we?
	Crimson Sky In Hungarian translation in the October 2021 issue of Galaktika magazine edited by Attila Németh and translated by Gabriel Bagi. First published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2014, Vol. CXXXIV, Nos. 7 & 8, ISSN 1059–2113. Winner of the 2015 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction English. A search and rescue mission on Mars takes an unexpected turn.
	The Greatest Day In Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2020 (90th Anniversary Issue), Vol. CXXXX, Nos. 1 & 2, ISSN 1059–2113. Finalist for the 2020 Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Award in the category of Best Short Story as voted by the readers of Analog. An alternate history about the Space Shuttle Columbia accident. [Q&A] [Review]
	Túshūguăn In Re-Terrify edited by Kelly A. Harmon and Vonnie Winslow Crist (Pole to Pole Publishing, 2018). First published in Ricepaper, Issue 19.3, Fall 2014, ISSN 1481–9945. Two young boys find an unusual treasure in a post‐apocalyptic Vancouver.
	F. — A Post‐Modern Prometheus (with Joseph McGinty) In We Shall Be Monsters edited by Derek Newman‐Stille (Renaissance Press, 2018). A hapless modern day Victor Frankenstein struggles to raise funding for his monstrous scientific research. [Reading] [Bonus Material]
	Most Valuable Player In Sins and Other Worlds edited by Eric S. Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2018). First published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2016, Vol. CXXXVI, No. 4, ISSN 1059–2113. A washed‐up baseball star finds unexpected redemption in mathematics.
	Decrypted In Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/June 2017, Vol. CXXXVII, Nos. 5 & 6,  ISSN 1059–2113. In a world without public key cryptography, a man’s past online activities come back to haunt him.
	Fixer Upper In Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories edited by Michael Brotherton (Springer, 2017). A Chinese expedition attempts to revive the abandoned International Space Station. [Excerpt]
	Plot Device In Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty edited by Spider Robinson and James Alan Gardner, (EDGE, 2017). First published in Northwest Passages:  A Cascadian Anthology edited by Cris DiMarco (Windstorm Creative, 2005). An ironic look at how artificial intelligence might impact future writers.
	She Just Looks That Way In Carbide Tipped Pens edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi (Tor, 2014). Beauty really is more than skin deep.
	From a Stone In Far Orbit: Speculative Space Adventures edited by Bascomb James, World Weaver Press, 2014). First published in Science Fiction Age, Volume 4, Number 6, ISSN 1065–1829, September 1996. Astronauts exploring an asteroid make a remarkable discovery. [Q&A with World Weaver Press]
	Dedication In Japanese translation in The Astronaut From Wyoming and Other Stories edited by Toru Nakamura (Hayakawa Publishing, 2010). First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 18, No. 12 & 13, ISSN 1055–2146, November 1994. Winner of the Isaac Asimov Award for undergraduate excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing. A team of astronauts on Mars struggle to survive after their rover is damaged in a meteorite shower.
	The Son of Heaven In The Dragon and the Stars edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi (DAW Books, 2010). The Chinese rocket scientist Tsien Hsue‐shen (钱学森) is persecuted during the Red Scare in America in the 1950s.
	Another’s Treasure In Footprints edited by Jay Lake and Eric T. Reynolds (Hadley Rille Books, 2009). In the far future, alien explorers try to make sense of what we left behind at one of the Apollo landing sites.
	A Man’s Place In Space Inc. edited by Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books, 2003). A cook on a lunar base becomes an unexpected hero.
	Just Like Being There In Tales From the Wonder Zone: Orbiter edited by Julie E. Czerneda (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2002). Finalist for the 2003 Prix Aurora Award for best short-form work in English. An astronaut contemplates the rewards and risks of human vs. robotic space exploration.
	The Coming Age of the Jet In Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas edited by Mark Shainblum and John Dupuis (Signature Editions, 1997). An alternate history of Avro Canada’s legendary jet. No, not that one, the other one.