Publications
Fiction
Short Stories
Nonfiction
Articles
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Maps in Science Fiction.
The New York Review of Science Fiction 356 (Feb 2022), pp. 23-27.
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Celebrating Christopher Tolkien’s Cartographic Legacy.
Tor.com (now Reactor), 22 Jan 2020.
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Where Do Fantasy Maps Come From?
Tor.com (now Reactor), 23 Sep 2019.
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An Exercise in Telling: Sylvain Neuvel’s Themis Files.
AE, 10 Jul 2019.
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Fantasy Maps Don’t Belong in the Hands of Fantasy Characters.
Tor.com (now Reactor), 28 May 2019.
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What Does a Fantasy Map Look Like?
Tor.com (now Reactor), 19 Mar 2019.
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A Literary Love Letter to Maps: The Writer’s Map.
Tor.com (now Reactor), 26 Nov 2018.
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The Dúnedain and the Deep Blue Sea: On Númenórean Navigation.
Tor.com (now Reactor), 7 Nov 2018.
Reprinted as “Navigating Middle-earth Before the Bending of the Seas,” Tor.com (now Reactor), 16 Aug 2022.
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God and the Machines: The Short Fiction of Peter Watts.
AE, 25 May 2015.
Reprinted as “Dieu et les machines: les nouvelles de Peter Watts,” afterword to Au-delà du gouffre by Peter Watts (Le Bélial’, 2016), pp. 463-467; translated by Erwann Perchoc.
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Here Be Blank Spaces: Vaguely Medieval Fantasy Maps.
The New York Review of Science Fiction 300 (Aug 2013), pp. 14-16.
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How Snake Keepers Should React to the Python Tragedy.
The Ottawa Citizen, 8 Aug 2013.
Untitled Book Reviews
- The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. Strange Horizons, 22 Jul 2022.
- Undiscovered Territories by Robert Freeman Wexler. Strange Horizons, 25 Mar 2022.
- Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes. Strange Horizons, 12 Jan 2022.
- Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro. Strange Horizons, 26 Jul 2021.
- Driftwood by Marie Brennan. Strange Horizons, 8 Feb 2021.
- Instances of Head-Switching by Teresa Milbrodt. Strange Horizons, 3 Jun 2020.
- Star Maps, 3rd ed., by Nick Kanas. Calafia, Mar 2020.
- Necessity by Jo Walton. AE, 23 Aug 2016.
- Company Town by Madeline Ashby. AE, 6 Jun 2016.
- Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer. AE, 14 Mar 2016.
- Echopraxia by Peter Watts. AE, 14 Dec 2015.
- Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson. AE, 28 Sep 2015.
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. AE, 17 Aug 2015.
- The Just City and The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton. AE, 20 Jul 2015.
- My Real Children by Jo Walton. AE, 27 Apr 2015.
- Elements by Suzanne Church. AE, 23 Mar 2015.
- Irregular Verbs and Other Stories by Matthew Johnson. AE, 26 Jan 2015.
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. AE, 24 Nov 2014.
Fanzines (as editor)
