New Kaslo episode in Lightspeed

The March Lightspeed magazine is out, containing "Phalloon the Illimitable," the fourth episode in the serialized novel, The Kaslo Chronicles. Hardboiled op Erm Kaslo and his new employer, the proto-wizard Diomedo Obron, go up against a stronger would-be thaumaturge, just as the universe is about to switch its rules of operation from rationalism to magic.

You can purchase the entire contents of this issue of Lightspeed as an ebook now, or read the Kaslo episode for free on the magazine's website on March 25th. The previous episodes are available online in Lightspeed's archives.

In other news, I've sold a reprint to the latest iteration of the prestigious Canadian sf anthology, Tesseracts 18 . The theme of this year's antho is "wrestling with gods -- faith in science fiction and fantasy."

My contribution, "So Loved" is a tale of the demiurge and offers an explanation of why the universe we inhabit appears to be only a rough draft of the real thing. It originally ran in Postscripts 24/25 .