Whatever

Interested in stuff from me, but not entirely sure you want to lay down vast sums of cash just yet? Fair enough. What you’ll find here is writing, audio versions of stories, and music, all created by yours truly, and all free for you to enjoy.

Here’s what’s on offer at the moment; this entry will be updated from time to time, when more of my stuff goes up.

* Agent to the Stars — a complete novel, published in limited edition hardcover by Subterranean Press in 2005, and trade paperback by Tor in 2008.

* The first chapter of The Android’s Dream, published by Tor in October of 2006.

* “The Secret History of The Last Colony“ — An excised chapter from an early version of The Last Colony, the novel which came out in April 2007. This non-canonical chapter was published at Subterranean Online in August, 2008.

* “The Sagan Diary,” audio version — an audio version of my 2007 novelette, set in the universe of the “Old Man” books (and occurring sequentially between the books The Ghost Brigades and The Last Colony). Read by Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Karen Meisner, Ellen Kushner, Helen Smith and Cherie Priest.

* The text version of “The Sagan Diary”

* Subterranean Magazine, Issue #4 (pdf link) — An issue of Subterranean Magazine guest-edited by me. Featuring stories by Allen Steele, Jo Walton, Nick Sagan, Elizabeth Bear and many others.

* “Alien Animal Encounters” — a short story published in Strange Horizons magazine, in October, 2001. An audio version is available here.

* “Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results” — A short story published by Subterranean Magazine Online, February, 2007. This was nominated for the Sidewise Award (for best alternate history short story) for 2007.

* “Pluto Tells All” — A short story published by Subterranean Magazine Online, May, 2007.

* “How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story” — Published as a limited edition chapbook by Subterranean Press, 2007. Available as “shareware” (follow the link for details).

* “After the Coup” — A short story in my “Old Man’s War” universe, published at Tor.Com, July, 2008.

* “Denise Jones, Super Booker” — A short story published by Subterranean Online, September, 2008.

* “Waiting For Athena” (pdf link) — A chapbook of essays written just before (and one just after) my daughter Athena was born. Originally published as a limited edition chapbook accompanying the Subterranean Press edition of my Hugo-winning essay collection Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, in 2008.

* “Judge Sn Goes Golfing” — An abridged audio version of the story featured in a 2009 Subterranean chapbook, taking place in the universe of The Android’s Dream.

* Music For Headphones — My album of electronica.

* “Saturn Speaks” — A single electronica track, based on recorded sounds from the planet Saturn.

* Wallpapery Shots — A Flickr set of pictures I’ve taken that would make nice computer wallpapers.

Have fun!