Short story3,072 words13 min read
My Name Is Eve
Bob had the watch.
Alice and Bob are among humanity's first explorers beyond the solar system. Then a message arrives from ahead, and they discover they may not be the first after all.
- Science fiction
9 stories · 100,118 words
Short story4,687 words20 min read
Three Bits
Three aliens land beside the research reactor at Mol and ask to borrow it for three weeks. In exchange, they offer answers to three yes-or-no questions. The Prime Minister of Belgium assembles the country’s deepest thinkers to decide what to ask.
- Science fiction
- Comedy
Novella25,798 words1 h 45 min read
The Chronicles of the Eternal Shadow
For a thousand years Eldoria has known peace. Now seven riders come to Willowbrook for an orphaned farm boy with a dragon-shaped birthmark, a wizard arrives with a prophecy and no explanations, and far in the north the Great Wall of Eternity begins to crack while the snowflakes grow larger. The complete saga in one volume: nine books and a prequel of epic fantasy, for readers who want the prophecy, the fellowship and the Dark Lord, and are prepared to take the mountains as read.
- Fantasy
- Comedy
Novel43,206 words3 h read
Galactus XII
Thirteen galactic days after Pope Galactus XI dies, the cardinals seal themselves inside a conclave that expels the supporters of losing candidates. Its ancient counting Engine watches their devotions and reads their ballots.
- Science fiction
- Thriller
- Revising
Novelette9,630 words40 min read
Something Lurks in the Forest
Ellis Reed lives alone at the edge of Bellwether Forest, where he works as a ranger. When an escaped murderer is believed to be hiding nearby, Ellis's knowledge of the woods makes him useful to the police. Then another body is found, and being useful becomes an obsession.
- Horror
- First version
Short story3,346 words14 min read
Meet The Maker
With their world overrun by the Netherworld, Caedmon and the Green Wizard pass through a dying wizard's portal to petition the Eternal Maker of Space and Time. They find fast metal carts, powerless magic, a great many stairs, and an unimpressive man in slippers.
- Fantasy
- Comedy
Short story1,724 words7 min read
The Millionth Morning
A man who perceives almost no emotion wakes on his millionth day in a green urban sanctuary. Almost all of humanity has entered a transcendent collective; he has remained physical. Over breakfast, Arishem arrives for his thousandth visit, with an invitation whose answer everyone around him seems to know already.
- Science fiction
Short story5,925 words25 min read
Welcome to the Loop
A driver nods off at the wheel, swerves onto an exit ramp, and enters the Loop: a business park where every ramp, every direction and every escape route leads back to the same welcome sign.
- Horror
Short story2,730 words11 min read
The Smallest Counterexample
In 2085, the last mathematician is working on an argument whose flaw he has hidden from himself for eleven days. Then a team of cosmologists asks him to look at the Great Wall of galaxies, where a pattern in the new survey has survived six months of attempts to explain it away. Their AI has advised them not to tell him what they think it resembles.
- Science fiction