Last Updated 16 December 2018.
The following stories are all available FOR FREE as podcasts. Most of them come from LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE magazines, where you can listen on-line. You can also order the e-books of the entire issues and listen (or read) extraordinary stories by lots and lots of great people, at leisure.
“Cerile and the Journeyer.” A love story about the one hitch that prevents lasting happiness.
“The New Provisions” The perils of permitting corporations to rewrite contracts retroactively.
“The Thing About Shapes To Come.” Monica’s Baby Girl is born in the shape of a cube.
“The Boy And the Box.” The tale of a truly cosmic little stinker.
“My Wife Hates Time Travel.” Wedded bliss can be such a paradox.
“Her Husband’s Hands.” He comes home not quite the man he was. A Nebula, Stoker, Seiun, Ignotus, and Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire nominee.
“Arvies.” It’s a brave new world, and we’re only passengers in it. Nebula nominee.
“The Totals.” A gathering of monsters.
“The Totals.” Same story, a different podcast.
“Four Haunted Houses.” And something freshly horrible in each.
“The Assassin’s Secret.” One thing that scares even him.
“The Whole Crew Hates Me.” Off to the stars with a whole bunch of meanies.
“Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes.” The multiverse really has it out for this poor schmuck.
“James, In the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter.” There are things about Heaven that they don’t tell you about in the brochures.
“The Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl.” A fable about needing to know the precise reasons we’re loved.
“A Touch of Heart.” A collaboration with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro.
“What I Told My Little Girl About The Aliens Preparing to Grind Us Into Hamburgers.” How to explain the worst to those trusting little eyes.
“The Mouth of the Oyster.” with Alvaro-Zinos Amaro. Seeing Life Through New Eyes.
“The Streets of Babel.” A Hard Time In the Big City.
“Pitcher Plant.” Some Houses Are No Good For Anybody.
“A Place Without Portals.” Honestly, stories make these problems way too convenient.
“Red Rain.” Can we just ask you a few questions?
“Greetings, Humanity! Welcome To Your Choice of Species!” A wealth of options, none good.
“The Last To Matter.” Sometimes you’ve seen it all.
“Night of the Living POTUS.” Nailing the Chief.
“The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation.” From the mouths of damned, offtime come gems.
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COMING SOON: AND OTHER STORIES, a collection from Skyboat Media!
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The following novels are available FOR PURCHASE as audiobooks. These are Amazon links.
EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD. An Andrea Cort novel. Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe’s dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to this cylinder world where an indentured human community hangs suspended high above a poisoned, acid atmosphere. Her assignment is to choose a suitable homicide suspect from among those who have sold their futures to escape existences even worse than this one. And no matter where the trail leads her she must do nothing to implicate the hosts, who hold the power to obliterate humankind in an instant.But Andrea Cort is not about to hold back in her hunt for a killer. For she has nothing to lose and harbors no love for her masters or fellow indentures. And she herself has felt the terrible exhilaration of taking life. (Philip K. Dick Award Winner.)
THE THIRD CLAW OF GOD. An Andrea Cort novel. Andrea Cort became a “war criminal” at the age of eight when an unexplained darkness invaded her soul. Now, decades later, the Devil is calling her.Employed by the Diplomatic Corps but secretly aiding the AI masters of the universe, Counselor Andrea Cort despises the powerful Bettelhines – unrepentant death merchants who have prospered from the annihilation of civilizations. Now curiosity compels her to answer a cryptic summons to their home world, where the only law is Bettelhine law. But a murder attempt greets her arrival at Xana’s orbital entry port – and far graver peril awaits aboard the elevator transport meant to carry Andrea to the planet’s surface. Trapped miles above Xana – surrounded by suspicious Bettelhines, their slavishly loyal retainers – and a corpse liquefied by a 15,000-year-old weapon – Andrea must unmask an assassin or die an equally hideous death. But the true reason for her summons – and sordid secrets weaving through her own dark past – threaten to destroy Andrea Cort more completely than the Claw of God.
WAR OF THE MARIONETTES. An Andrea Cort novel. This audio edition currently the only version available in English; we are working on it. Andrea Cort, protagonist of Emissaries From The Dead and The Third Claw of God, returns with her lovers Oscin and Skye Porrinyard for a visit to the distant planet Vlhan, whose towering inhabitants regularly gather for a ritual that is half art-form, half-suicide. Once before, the ritual went wrong, and became a bloody assault on human beings…but that’s history now, and Andrea seeks only information in the ongoing mystery that has come to consume her life. Unfortunately, a young girl has gone missing on Vlhan…and Andrea has arrived just in time for the killing to begin again.