Short Story Reprinted

My short story, "Schrodenger's Train," has been reprinted in Metastellar Speculative Fiction & Beyond and is availabe to read free.

https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/schrodengers-train/

My Review of Starship Librarians

My review of Starship Librarians, edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell, from Tyche Books is now up at Ottawa Review of Books.

https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/starship-librarians-edited-by-shannon-allen-and-jr-campbell

Two Short Fiction Published

My short story, "Split Decision" appears in Twin Flame Literary. The story originally appeared in Tesseracts 15 in 2011, was reprinted in Imaginarium: The Year's Best Canadian SF, 2012, and twice since, but this is the first time it's been available for free online.

I also had my 50-word micro-fiction, "The Experimental Writer" published on Sudden Flash Sept 17, 2025. It is also available online for free.

Review of Dave Duncan's The Traitor's Son by Toby Welch

Happy for this positive review, even if Toby Welch is not a regular SF reader. https://reviews.skbooks.com/traitors-son-the/

Some Recent Publications

,"The Experimental Writer" on Sudden Flash Sept 14, 2025.

"Iceberg" in Polar Borealis #35, July 2025. Reprinted from Miramichi Flash Miramichi Reader Dec 24, 2021 and originally published in Karen Schauber, ed. The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings, pp. 22-23. Surrey, BC: Heritage Press, Oct. 2019.

"Third Shift", in Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Celebration of Canadian Life Through Story, Shawn Bird, ed. Lintusen Press, June, 2025. (Originally published by First Line Literary Vol 22 #1, Spring, 2020.)

"Perfect Storm", Flash Flood National Flash Fiction Day, June 15, 2025. Originally published by Fatal Flaw, Nov 19, 2020 and reprinted ScribesMicro April, 2022.

Where Our Civilization Is Now

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The great John Linwood Grant recently posted this piece of nonsense:

which I reposted on Facebook. Karl Johanson responded to my post with the above video. That's Karl and I as we were 30 years ago.

So this is where we, as a civilization, are now. Either Karl travelled back in time 30 years to present me with a porcupine--to demonstrate that he has admired my work for a long time--or this is an AI fake.

One can no longer believe anything we see. I had to actually think for a moment, did Karl ever present me with a procupine? Pretty sure he did not.

"Fami's Dissertation Defense" in Audio

My flash fiction, "Fami's Dissertation Defense" is on AntiSF Radio Show, May 4, 2025 episode, starting at 21:56 minutes in.

This is the fourth release of this flash piece, previously published in Antipodean SF #315, January 2025, reprinted from Polar Borealis #26, Sept, 2023, pp. 42-44; originally appeared on Ripples in Space, Spring 2020.

This is also the thirteenth appearence of Fami and his Watch (though that includes one Fami story without Watch, and Watch one story without Fami).

Thanks to narrator Ed Errington and editor Ian Necolmb for this audio version.