Writing

Fiction

• “Of Laboratories and Love Songs” – short story forthcoming in Analog
• “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 Tor.com (November, 2012)

Non-Fiction

• “Speculative Screencraft” – Essay series in Asimov’s Science Fiction (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” – Forthcoming Winter 2023
  • “Shakespeare, Freud, and the Unconscious in Forbidden Planet” – Forthcoming Summer 2023
• “Cons, Crud and Coronavirus” – Uncanny Magazine (March, 2020)
• “Putting the Science in Science Fiction” – Locus Magazine (2020)
  • Part 1 – January, 2020
  • Part 2 – March, 2020
• “A Scientist Explains What Happens After the Ending to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” – Tor.com (June, 2018)
• “On the Origins of Modern Biology and the Fantastic” – series on Tor.com (2018-2020)
  • 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)