Awards and Nominations
Two Hours at Frontier
Humans are not really designed for space travel, but that does not mean that we can’t travel through space.
Analog, November/December 2017
Finalist, Anaog annual readers poll.
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Exceptional Forces
The Andromedans will arrive and wipe us out in a few centuries, so should we be worried?
– Finalist, Asimov’s annual readers poll
Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2015
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Technarion
Reading: An electric computer was built in London in 1875. Who invented it? Nobody human.
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Acts of Chivalry
The werewolves of Hollywood are nothing like those of medieval legends.
WSFA Award nominee
Great Southern Land, ed. Ormsby, 2013
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Steamgothic
Steamgothic – Some very brave people in 1852 are about to fly the first steam powered aircraft, and diet will mean the difference between life and death.
Sidewise Award nominee
Interzone, July/August 2012
– Republished: Years Best Science Fiction 30, ed. Gardner Dozois, 2013
Ninety Thousand Horses
Nineteenth Century steam trains were fast, but could one break the sound barrier?
Analog Readers Poll winner
Analog, January/February 2012
A Neat Thing. The author deploys his physics with authority and manages to convince me that the rocket was possible as his narrator describes it – Lois Tiltron
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Eight Miles
Balloons were the only way to fly in 1840, and air safety standards were the stuff of science fiction.
Hugo Award Nominee. Republished Year’s Best SF 16, ed. Hartwell, 2011
Voidfarer – Moonworlds series Book 3
Sean’s third Moonworlds novel (after 2004’s Glass Dragons ), sorcerers from the nearby planet Lupanar invade the world of Scalticar, traveling in cylinders that include such familiar Wellsian trappings as tripod fighting machines equipped with heat rays. [from Publishers Weekly Introduction]
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Walk to the Full Moon
Time travel has been an evolutionary survival trait for several hundred thousand years.
– Winner, Aurealis Award 2003
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Voyage of the Shadowmoon – Moonworlds series Book 1
Now McMullen delivers Voyage of the Shadowmoon, a fantasy epic of daunting skill and scope.
The Shadowmoon is a small, unobtrusive wooden schooner whose passengers and crew are much more than they seem: Ferran, the Shadowmoon’s lusty captain who dreams of power; Roval, the warrior-sorcerer; Velander and Terikel, priestesses of a nearly extinct sect; and the chivalrous vampire Laron, who has been trapped in a fourteen-year-old body for seven hundred years. – Amazon
Voice of Steel
Back in 1404 there were two gunsmiths listening to our radio broadcasts.
– BSFA Award nominee
– Nova Fantastyka reader’s poll winner
sf.com, August 2002
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Tower of Wings
In this classic example of medieval steampunk, the ultimate medieval war machine becomes a nobleman’s gift to his engineer lady.
Analog Readers Poll winner
Analog, December 2001
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