Until October 20th, use the promo code CHOI2022 and get a 20% discount when you order my short story collection Just Like Being There from the Springer Nature website:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978–3‑030–91605‑3

The collection features fifteen of my hard SF and alternate history stories including the Aurora Award winning “Crimson Sky” and the new novelette “A Sky and a Heaven”. Story topics include space exploration, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cryptography, quantum computing, online privacy, mathematics (statistics), neuroscience, psychology, space medicine, extraterrestrial intelligence, undersea exploration, commercial aviation, and the history of science. Each story is followed by an afterword that explains the underlying engineering or science.

For more information, please visit the Just Like Being There page or download the brochure. Also check out my author Q&A on the Edelweiss blog, the review on AmazingStories.com, my interviews in Space.com and OverDrive: In the Know, or my conversation on the official podcast of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. 

I am delighted to have received my contributor copy of the new anthology Seasons Between Us edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law and published by Laksa Media Groups Inc. featuring new stories by Maurice Broaddus, Vanessa Cardui, C.J. Cheung, Joyce Chng, Divya Srinivasan Breed, Alan Dean Foster, Bev Geddes, Maria Haskins, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Karin Lowachee, Brent Nichols, Heather Osborne, Y.M. Pang, Karina Sumner-Smyth, Amanda Sun, Patrick Swenson, Bogi Takács, Hayden Trenholm, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Jane Yolen, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, and yours truly.

This picture is of course totally posed. The cat cared less for the book than the box it came in.

Laksa Media has released the cover art and table of contents for its upcoming anthology Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. Release date is September 8th, 2018. A portion of Laksa’s net revenue from this book with support the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario and the Alex Community Food Centre in Calgary.

Foreword by Lucas K. Law
Introduction by Eric Choi and Gillian Clinton
“Porque el girasol se llama el girasol” by Rich Larson
“Inkskinned” by Jeremy Szal
“Defender of Mogadun” by Alex Shvartsman
“Gilbert Tong’s Life List” by Kate Heartfield
“The Marsh of Camarina” by Matthew Kressel
“Invasio” by Karin Lowachee
“Habitat” by Christie Yant
“The Travellers” by Amanda Sun
“Critical Mass” by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm
“Screen in Silver, Love in Colour, Mirror in Black-and-White” by Julie Nováková
“How My Life Will End” by Vanessa Cardui
“From the Shoals of Broken Cities” by Heather Osborne
“In a Bar by the Ocean, the World Waits” by Hayden Trenholm
“Imago” by Elsie Chapman
“Shades of Void” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
“Superfreak” by Tonya Liburd
“The Vagabond of Trudeau High” by Sarah Raughley
“The Swordmaster of Ravenpeak” by Brent Nichols
“Remember the Green” by Seanan McGuire
“Devouring Tongues” by S.L. Huang
“Voices” by Tyler Keevil
Afterword by Susan Forest

Two terrific new anthologies are now available, just in time for the Holidays.

Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories, edited by Michael Brotherton and published by Springer, features fourteen hard SF stories written by active research scientists and engineers. The collection includes my new story “Fixer Upper”, which is about a Chinese expedition to rescue the International Space Station. Science Fiction by Scientists is available now in paperback (Amazon, !ndigo, Barnes & Noble) and ebook (Amazon, !ndigo, Kobo, Google Play).

The 2017 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, is the third edition of Corie and Sean Weaver’s annual collection of science fiction stories for young adult and middle grade readers, published by their delightfully named Dreaming Robot Press. This book includes my Prix Aurora Award winning short story “Crimson Sky”, and is available now in paperback (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) and ebook (Amazon, !ndigo, Barnes & Noble, Kobo).

Happy Holiday reading to everyone!

Here is the cover and table of contents for Mike Brotherton’s upcoming collection Science Fiction by Scientists published by Springer, which includes my story “Fixer Upper” about a Chinese expedition to rescue the International Space Station. The book will be available in late November 2016.

Introduction by Mike Brotherton
“Down and Out” by Ken Wharton
“Tree of Life” by Jennifer Rohn
“Supernova Rhythm” by Andrew Fraknoi
“Turing de Force” by Edward M. Lerner
“Neural Alchemist” by Tedd Roberts
“The Schrödinger Brat Paradox” by Carl Frederick
“Upside the Head” by Marissa Lingen
“Betelgeuse” by J. Craig Wheeler
“Sticks and Stones” by Stephanie Osborn
“One for the Conspiracy Theorists” by Jon Richards
“Hidden Variables” by Jed Brody
“Spreading the Seed” by Les Johnson
“Fixer Upper” by Eric Choi
“The Gatherer of Sorrows” by J. M. Sidorova