Explorer of Worlds Real and Imagined
Happy New Year! Nebula, and Sir Julius Vogel Awards are open for nominations for prose, Rhysling nominations are open for poetry and Hugo nominations will open soon.
My short story “A Thorn in Your Memory” is eligible for prose.
My poem “the chrononaut” is eligible for poetry.
The Qubit Zirconium is out today in US paperback and ebook everywhere!
Alien detectives stumble across a mystery that could tear apart their patchwork planet, the Crucible, in this riotous science fantasy novel from the smash hit game, KeyForge.
Wibble & Pplimz, the Crucible’s most unusual private investigators, must set off from their office in Hub City to clear the name of a former client. Along the way, their investigation broadens from a simple accusation of theft to include a missing person, a potential murder, and a highly unusual gem. Four interlinking incidents take them across the Crucible, as they attempt to solve the case. But there’s something more sinister lurking underneath: evidence of a secret society that aims to discover the power of the Architects, and forever change the nature of the Crucible itself.
I have stories in two new anthologies out today!
KeyForge: Tales From the Crucible
Take a whirlwind tour to the incredible planet of a million fantasy races, the Crucible, in this wild science fantasy anthology from the hit new game, KeyForge.
Fireweed: Stories from the Revolution
Sixteen stories and poems of triumph, resistance, and revolution.
I’m excited to share that my book The Voyage of the White Cloud is a part of the new Glitter And Hope StoryBundle, curated by Cat Rambo!
Hope can find its origin in friendship, whether on an alien planet or a New York street corner. It can come from writing, in a myriad shades as multi-colored as the ink in which it’s inscribed. It glitters at the bottom of Pandora’s box, waiting to escape. Waiting to provide comfort and light and renewed vigor for the fight.
So this is a bundle centered on hope with a touch of glitter, rather than grit, and I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I did. It’s a range of flavors as well as forms: novels, including some beginnings; connected short stories; sequential novellas, and an anthology of stories connected by theme.
Cat Rambo
For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.
If you pay at least the bonus price of just $15, you get all four of the regular books, plus seven more more books, for a total of eleven!
‘Tis the season. Hugo, Nebula, and Sir Julius Vogel Awards are open for nominations for prose, and Rhysling nominations are open for poetry.
My novella “Retaking Elysium” is eligible for prose.
My poems “recursion” and “. ….. ..story .. time” are eligible for poetry.
Jules Morales’s life has always been a state of contact change. When the opportunity comes up, why not take a trip to Mars to work on the platinum mining operation—and make a load of money? But what if there is more to Mars than just a payday and an adventure?
The woman now calling herself Lisa Marie has spent her whole life trapped by the struggle to make ends meet, and sometimes held hostage by her own memories. On Mars she might finally find financial security, but will she also find something to care about today, and maybe even for the future?
Mars is a world in transition, caught in the balance between capitalist exploitation and human exploration. The first people of Mars need to find a way to build a functioning economic zone and liveable habitat on the Red Planet. But could they do more—create a community, a true new home for humanity?
Out now, Retaking Elysium, the prequel novella to The Martian Job.
I’m serializing my new novella Retaking Elysium on Patreon.
Mars is good place to reinvent yourself, isn’t it?
Jules Morales’s life has always been a state of contact change. When the opportunity comes up, why not take a trip to Mars to work on the platinum mining operation—and make a load of money? But what if there is more to Mars than just a payday and an adventure?
The woman now calling herself Lisa Marie has spent her whole life trapped by the struggle to make ends meet, and sometimes held hostage by her own memories. On Mars she might finally find financial security, but will she also find something to care about today, and maybe even for the future?
Mars is a world in transition, caught in the balance between capitalist exploitation and human exploration. The first people of Mars need to find a way to build a functioning economic zone and liveable habitat on the Red Planet. But could they do more—create a community, a true new home for humanity?
Coming July 23—a Patreon exclusive serial in text and audio: Retaking Elysium, a prequel to my Nebula nominated game, The Martian Job.
Mars is good place to reinvent yourself, isn’t it?
Jules Morales’s life has always been a state of contact change. When the opportunity comes up, why not take a trip to Mars to work on the platinum mining operation—and make a load of money? But what if there is more to Mars than just a payday and an adventure?
The woman now calling herself Lisa Marie has spent her whole life trapped by the struggle to make ends meet, and sometimes held hostage by her own memories. On Mars she might finally find financial security, but will she also find something to care about today, and maybe even for the future?
Mars is a world in transition, caught in the balance between capitalist exploitation and human exploration. The first people of Mars need to find a way to build a functioning economic zone and liveable habitat on the Red Planet. But could they do more—create a community, a true new home for humanity?
All patrons will get the weekly chapters in text, patrons at the $2 or more level will get the exclusive audio podcast, and patrons at the $3 or more level will also get the ebook before it is released worldwide in October.
Join my Patreon here!
Woo hoo! The Martian Job won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella!
The SJVs are New Zealand’s fan-voted awards for best science fiction, fantasy and horror.
The ballot for the 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards is out, and I’m delighted to see that The Voyage of the White Cloud is a finalist for Best Novel and The Martian Job is a finalist in the Best Novella category.
The Sir Julius Vogel Awards will be presented at Geysercon, New Zealand’s 40th National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, in Rotorua, 31 May – 2 June 2019.
I am so excited to share that The Martian Job has been nominated for a Nebula Award in the brand-new Game Writing category!
I am so thrilled to be in the company of such great authors and titles! From the SFWA Nebula site:
Game Writing
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker (House of Tomorrow & Netflix)
The Road to Canterbury, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)
God of War, Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, Cory Barlog, Orion Walker, and Adam Dolin (Santa Monica Studio/Sony/Interactive Entertainment)Rent-A-Vice, Natalia Theodoridou (Choice of Games)
The Martian Job, M. Darusha Wehm (Choice of Games)
More great news for audio fans: my space station political epic Children of Arkadia is now available on Audible. Narrated by Wesley Nelson.
