In 2006 I published the novella Under the Graying Sea in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It received some pretty good reviews, was a runner up for the 2007 Hugo, and #4 on Asimov's novelette poll. The next year I went back to school full time and barely wrote a thing for two years. Now that I've just finished the degree, I'm finally able to write again. I hope to publish more soon, but in the meantime I'm going to post a lot of my work right here. There's a lot of science fiction, but a lot of other types of fiction here as well. I hope you find something you enjoy.
Latest News
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Nebula VII arrives, and looks sweet
My copies of Nebula VII have arrived, and it's a really terrific-looking book. I can't comment on much of anything except the artwork because I can't read a word of Chinese. But... it's a really good-looking book!The artwork for Under the Graying Sea I've already mentioned earlier, and I have to thank the artist, Den, for it. He's done a lot of other wonderful illustrations, so take a look at his web site. And there's a scary mug shot of me in there, too. Just don't let the horrid sight of my face detract from the rest of the bookMany thanks to the editors at Science Fiction World ...
Posted Feb 25, 2010 7:46 AM by Jonathan Sherwood
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Tessa in the flesh - sort of literally
"Nebula VII," the anthology printed by the Chinese publication Science Fiction World, has just come out, and with it was a surprise. First, I didn't realize that the other authors were Robert Sawyer, Stephen Baxter, and James Alan Gardner. I'm quite humbled to be in the same stack of pages with these writers.Second, there was a black-and-white illustration done for the story that is quite nice. Okay, Tessa is a bit more, um, nekkid than I envisioned her in the story, but still - cool image.I haven't received my copies yet, but I'll post the cover when I do.Update: The artist's name is Den, and he has a web page full ...
Posted Feb 25, 2010 7:50 AM by Jonathan Sherwood
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2034 Anthology Arrives!
The anthology that R-SPEC has been diligently working on for more than a year is finally here!2034: Writing Rochester's Futures is set 25 years (well, 24 years now) into the future, and takes 18 different looks at what the future of Rochester and the area might look like.Best-selling Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Nancy Kress leads a tour of things to come, alongside Star Trek writer Sally Caves, two-time John W. Campbell Award finalist Nick DiChario, playwright/philosopher Craig DeLancey, and fourteen other Rochesterian masters of speculative fiction.This is really good fiction, so do yourself a favor and head on over to the R-SPEC Press web site and buy a copy ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 1:11 PM by Jonathan Sherwood
Latest Stories Online
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The Strange Case of Mr. Hedford's House
"The idea struck Mr. Hedford one night while watching the evening news over a bowl of buttered rice. Eric Schettino, the actor and late-in-life wetlands activist, had died. He was seventy-two. The idea came over Mr. Hedford--Harold--so gently it wasn’t until the blaring commercial break that he resumed chewing. He looked up at the walls of his bedroom, at the leaning curtain rod, the crack in the ceiling--and things were never the same..."Here is a fun little short-short (about 1,200 words) about a guy who realizes he can use his one talent to make a mark in the world. I wrote this at the same time I was writing Graying ...
Posted Nov 28, 2009 7:00 AM by Jonathan Sherwood
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Spider, Spider
"It was a bad rain. Like knitting needles stabbing you in place. Insect collector needles. Days since the streetlights slept. It came down dull and mad. Straight and muttering. It stabbed at me, so I ran. At the corner of Crost and Lake I slipped on the worn concrete and fell hard against the sidewalk, but I didn’t stop. I didn’t even slow down..."An agoraphobe, a stripper, a double amputee, a street musician, and a laundromat owner are a group of misfit friends. Holding them all together is William, a kind, one-armed, photographer with great aspirations. But when a freak storm leads to weeks of dreary, incessant rain, the group's little island of solace begins ...
Posted Nov 27, 2009 9:05 AM by Jonathan Sherwood
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Under the Graying Sea
"Ignition.Tessa’s head snapped back into its cradle and her lips slid away from her teeth. The shock slapped the fog off the inside of her helmet and misted her face. Behind her, Loránd groaned as he pressed into his own seat. And behind him, past two hundred pounding meters of metal and deuterium, the largest protospike engine in history opened its mouth and screamed at the stars. Nothing went wrong. Not at first...""This is science fiction. Hard science fiction — the Real Stuff, not the so-called “hard SF” that’s nothing more than galactic adventures and thrilling space battles, in which a futuristic veneer overlays the fantastic core. Here, the wormhole is the only concession to unreality ...
Posted Nov 27, 2009 8:20 PM by Jonathan Sherwood
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Caught Awry
"It’s not like I’m suicidal or nothing, I just felt crappy and sort of felt like getting hit a lot might kinda knock it out of me. So I paid each of ‘em thirty bucks to do it, and the thing is the one guy probably would have done it for free. I mean he was that sledge-head type and all. I don’t mean to stereotype him just ‘cause he was really big. And had that dumb goatee and breathed through his mouth..."Another very short one (about 2,000 words). This one is a modern riff on a classic literary character, perhaps with his prime trait amplified a bit and a healthy dose of my ...
Posted Nov 27, 2009 8:28 PM by Jonathan Sherwood
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