Writing

Fiction

• “An Invitation from the BuildungsEssen Restaurant Group” – short story in The Sunday Morning Transport (November 2025)
• “As Ordinary Things Often Do” – short story in Analog Science Fiction & Fact (January/February 2025) (Companion essay on The Astounding Analog Companion)
• “Making Gnocchi at the End of the World” – short story in Analog Science Fiction & Fact (May/June 2024)
• “Ghosting” – novella in Giganotosaurus (November 2023)
• “Of Laboratories and Love Songs” – short story in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine (May/June 2023) 
• “A Selection of Tissues” – short story in Three-Lobed Burning Eye (December 2021)
• “Small Turn of the Ladder” – short story in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine (May/June 2021)
• “Something in the Blood” –  short story in Coins of Chaos Anthology, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2013
• “The Tower” – short story in Unlikely Stories’ Journal of Unlikely Architecture (August 2013)
• “How to Make a Triffid” – short story on Reactor (formerly Tor.com) (November 2012)

Non-Fiction

• “Speculative Screencraft” – Thought Experiment essay series in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (ongoing)
  • “Magic, Science, and the Moon in La Voyage Dans la Lune” (March/April 2022)
  • “The Horror and Science Fiction of Frankenstein” (September/October 2022)
  • “The Showing and Telling of Metropolis and Fritz Lang” (Jan/Feb 2023)
  • “Shakespeare, Freud, and the Unconscious in Forbidden Planet” (May/June 2023)
  • “Aliens, Outsiders, and Things” (September/October 2023)
  • “Dehumanization, Un-Americans, and Pod People in Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (Jan/Feb 2024)
  • “Giant Monsters, Kaiju and the Bomb in Godzilla” (Jun/Jul 2024)
  • “Nuclear War, Satire, and the Grotesque in Dr. Strangelove” (Sep/Oct 2024)
  • “The Impossible Spectacle of 2001: A Space Odyssey” (Jan/Feb 2025)
  • “Crime and Punishment in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange” (Jul/Aug 2025)
  • “The Shining, and The Shining, and The Shining” (Sep/Oct 2025)
  • “Bradbury and Truffaut’s Empathy in Fahrenheit 451” (Forthcoming Jan/Feb 2026)
• Essays for Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine 
  • “Genetic Memory, Clones, and Epigenetics” (Science Fact essay – Mar/Apr 2024)
  • “‘Unfutured Race: Neanderthal Science and Fiction” (Science Fact essay – Sep/Oct 2024)
  • “Out of Some Warm Pond” Origins of Life series
    • Part 1: “Rifters” and the RNA World (Jul/Aug 2025)
    • Part 2: BIOS and the Last Universal Common Ancestor (Forthcoming Nov/Dec 2025)
• “Cons, Crud and Coronavirus” – Uncanny Magazine (March 2020)
• “Putting the Science in Science Fiction” – Locus Magazine
  • Part 1 (January 2020)
  • Part 2 (March 2020)
• “A Scientist Explains What Happens After the Ending to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” – Reactor (formerly Tor.com) (June 2018)
• “On the Origins of Modern Biology and the Fantastic” – series on Reactor (formerly Tor.com)
  • Bibliography for the series
  • Part 1 – Jules Verne and Charles Darwin (March 2018)
  • Part 2 – H.G. Wells and Gregor Mendel (April 2018)
  • Part 3 – Aldous Huxley and Thomas Hunt Morgan (May 2018)
  • Part 4 – Edgar Rice Burroughs and Theodosius Dobzhansky (June 2018)
  • Part 5 – Olaf Stapledon and the Modern Synthesis (August 2018)
  • Part 6 – John W. Campbell, James Watson and Francis Crick (September 2018)
  • Part 7 – Robert A. Heinlein and DNA Replication (October 2018)
  • Part 8 – Isaac Asimov and messenger RNA (February 2019)
  • Part 9 – Arthur C. Clarke and the Genetic Code (March 2019)
  • Part 10 – Ray Bradbury and Mechanisms of Regulation (April 2019)
  • Part 11 – JG Ballard and the Birth of Biotech (May 2019)
  • Part 12 – Philip K. Dick and Sydney Brenner (June 2019)
  • Part 13 – Ursula K. Le Guin and Lynn Margulis (September 2019)
  • Part 14 – Octavia Butler and the War on Cancer (October 2019)
  • Part 15 – Star Wars and Polymerase Chain Reaction (December 2019)
  • Part 16 – William Gibson and the Human Genome Project (January 2020)
  • Part 17 – Iain Banks and Genetic Engineering (March 2020)
  • Part 18 – Nalo Hopkinson and Stem Cell Research (May 2020)

Awards and Interviews

• Biolog: Kelly Lagor by Richard A. Lovett (Analog Jul/Aug 2025)
• 2025 Analytical Laboratory Award for Best Science Fact Article for “Genetic Memory, Clones, and Epigenetics”
• Interview about the story “Of Laboratories and Love Songs” on The Astounding Analog Companion
• Interview about the story “Making Gnocchi at the End of the World” on The Astounding Analog Companion