2023 Award Eligibility

I published two stories this year:

  • “Daughters of the Lattice,” Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (July/August 2023)
    When a galaxy-spanning empire collapses in the face of a spreading infection that devours entire planets, a sisterhood of nuns find themselves marooned in orbit of an inhospitable planet. A space opera about building a home on a liminal world and what might be sacrificed to maintain it.
  • “Every Seed is a Prayer (And Your World is a Seed),” Clarkesworld Magazine 203 (August 2023)
    In the near future, AI has been given charge of managing forests and tipping the world back toward ecological balance. Odem and Ava, serving at a forest research station, have a front-row seat for the world’s renewal. When the AI begins to make decisions neither understand, both must decide how far they’re willing to trust the planet’s green new god. A story in the borderland of optimism and despair.

3 thoughts on “2023 Award Eligibility

  1. Sf's avatarSf

    See you’re not on X anymore (good call) so I came here to say I really enjoyed “Sisters of the Flare”. A nicely scoped-out glimpse into a bigger sci-fi universe. I really enjoyed the contrast of their monastic life with all the grand names like diretctrix and Sisters xenobiologia compared to grand sweep of space opera. Also especially liked Tars’ relationship to the cores and her work there as prayer and perhaps buried self-reflection. Great stuff!

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      1. Sf's avatarSf

        Great to hear! Do you know which issues exactly?

        PS: Please forgive all the typos in that first post, saw them after I hit the submit button of course.

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