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Stories out in 2017

It is that time of year when people are writing end-of-year and awards eligibility posts, so here is mine. I had seven short stories and one novelette out in 2017. If you only read one piece of work from me this year, I encourage you to check out Carnival Nine, which came out in issue #225 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Short stories:

Shadow Station (Nature, April 13)

Carnival Nine (BCS, May 2017)

The Ivory Hummingbird (June 30, 2017, DSF)

Building a Bridge Too Vast to Cross (July 27, 2017 DSF)

Until the Day We Go Home (August 8, 2017, Fireside)

Dreams as Fragile as Glass (The Sum of Us)

Dancing in a Midnight Ocean (Oceans: The Anthology)

Novelette:

Faceless Soldiers, Patchwork Ship (Infinity Wars)

Welcome to the Medical Clinic is in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy!

The table of contents is out for the 2017 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and one of my stories is in it:

“Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” (originally in Lightspeed Magazine)

I’m honored to be included with a really great lineup of authors and stories!

Readercon Panel: A Golden Age of Asian Speculative Literature in English

As promised, here is a list of Asian and South Asian authors that were mentioned in the panel (plus a few that were in my notes but I never had a chance to mention). Since I am incapable of taking notes while being on the panel, I didn’t jot down the names of authors that were mentioned by other panelists, although many were already on my list. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of authors/works, just a starting point. I’ve included links to where you can read short stories free online.

Aliette de Bodard – Immersion

Ted Chiang – The Lifecycle of Software Objects, also check out his collection: The Story of Your Life & Others

John Chu – The Water That Falls on You From Nowhere, Making the Magic Lightning Strike Me

Wesley Chu – The Lives of Tao, Time Salvager

Indrapramit Das – The Devourers

Xia Jia – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (translated by Ken Liu)

Hao Jingfang – Folding Beijing (translated by Ken Liu)

Cassandra Khaw – Hammers on Bone, Hungry Ghosts

Fonda Lee – Exo

Yoon Ha Lee – Ninefox Gambit

Cixin Liu – The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End

Ken Liu – Paper Menagerie, also check out his novels: The Grace of Kings, Wall of Storms

S. Qiouyi Lu – Her Sacred Spirit Soars

Usman Malik – The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

Vandana Singh – Ambiguity Machines: An Examination

Alyssa Wong – Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers

JY Yang – The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of Fortune (forthcoming Sept 26)

Isabel Yap – A Cup of Salt Tears

E. Lily Yu – The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees

(And as John Chu quite kindly mentioned on the panel, I am also an Asian SFF writer–if you want to check out a sample of my work, please take a look at my recent Beneath Ceaseless Skies story Carnival Nine.)

2017 Ignotus Award Finalists Announced

The nominees for this year’s Ignotus Awards have been announced, and I’m honored that my story “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” (translated by Marcheto, published in SuperSonic 4) is up for an award in the translated short fiction category.

Congrats to all the nominees!

Recommended stories from “Flash Fiction and its Benefits”

At the Nebula Conference I moderated a panel on flash fiction with wonderful panelists Trevor Quachri, Cat Rambo, John Wiswell, and A.T. Greenblatt. (If you missed the panel, check out the SFWA tweets in this thread for highlights.)

I promised at the end of the panel that I would post a list of all the recommended flash fiction stories that we talked about, so here it is:

Indigo Blue by Rachael K. Jones
Stars That Fall by Samantha Murray
43 Responses to “In Memory  of Dr. Alexandra Nako” by Barbara A. Barnett
Break by Mishell Baker
They’re Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson (also as a youtube video!)
I Die a Little by Bo Balder
Six Names for the End by Ken Hinckley
I am Graalnak of the Vroon Empire, Destroyer of Galaxies, Supreme Overlord of the Planet Earth. Ask Me Anything by Laura Pearlman
An Abundance of Fish by S. Qiuoyi Lu
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky
Grandmother’s Bones by SL Huang
The Black Clover Equation by Zach Shepard
Running Safety Tips for Humans by Marissa Lingen
Attending Your Own Funeral, an Etiquette Guide by Erica L. Satifka
Other Metamorphoses by Fabio Fernandes

If you have a favorite flash fiction story that we didn’t talk about in the panel, feel free to leave it in the comments. Thank you to all the panelists and to everyone who attended!

“Carnival Nine” at Beneath Ceaseless Skies

 

I have a new story out in issue #225 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies (May, 2017). “Carnival Nine” is a story that I am particularly proud of, and I’m so happy it found a good home. A short excerpt:

One night, when I was winding down to sleep, I asked Papa, “How come I don’t get the same number of turns every day?”

“Sometimes the maker turns your key more, and sometimes less, but you can never have more than your mainspring will hold. You’re lucky, Zee, you have a good mainspring.” He sounded a little wistful when he said it. He never got as many turns as I did, and he used most of them to do boring grown-up things.

(Read the rest at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.)

My Norwescon Schedule

I’ll be at Norwescon this weekend. Want to find me? Here’s my schedule:

Panel: Story Form, and the Pros and Cons of Each

Friday 10am – 11am – Cascade 7 & 8

Novel, flash, short story, novelette––narrative fiction comes in multiple forms. How do they differ, other than word count? How are they alike? Join our panel of writers as they discuss the benefits and constraints that each form brings to the table.

Reading

Friday 5:30pm-6pm – Cascade 2

“Dreams as Fragile as Glass.” A story of mothers and daughters, and sea glass, and dreams. Rated PG.

Panel: Hive Minds and the Unary Consciousness

Friday 6pm – 7pm – Cascade 9

The Insectoid race, where drones are mere extensions of the queen. The disembodied brain that unites all people into a single will, united in peace and order. The Gaia mind, bringing all life on the planet into a single organic whole. If we were ever to encounter a hive mind, would communication be possible? Might humanity someday achieve such a state, and would that be a good thing?

Autograph Session 1

Saturday 2pm – 3pm – Grand 2

Feel free to stop by and say hi, even if you don’t want anything signed!

Panel: How to Be an Author on the Internet

Saturday 6pm-7pm – Cascade 9

And how not to be. Navigating social media as a professional can be challenging, but it can also be a fun way to bring a human face to your brand—as long as you don’t come off like a spambot trying to sell your book. Our experts talk about common mistakes and pitfalls authors make on social media and how to avoid them, as well as best practices for utilizing social media, email, and blogs, and creative ways to help you connect with—not alienate—readers.

2016 Nebula Nominees

SFWA has announced the 2016 Nebula Nominees, and I am excited to announce that “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” made the ballot in the short story category! There is a lot of really amazing fiction on the ballot this year, and I’m honored to be in such good company.

Interview with G.G. Silverman

G.G. Silverman (author of the comedic YA novel Vegan Teenage Zombie Huntress) is doing a series on Women in Speculative Fiction, and she interviewed me about my collection: Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and Other Stories. You can read the interview here:

http://www.ggsilverman.com/women-in-speculative-fiction-caroline-yoachim-author-of-seven-wonders-of-a-once-and-future-world/

And while you’re there, check out some of the other great interviews in the series–so far this month she’s interviewed Karen Harris Tully and Nisi Shawl.

Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World Ebook Sale!

For a limited time, the ebook version of Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and Other Stories is on sale for only $2.99. Twenty-seven stories for less than three dollars! You can find it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.