Publications

Fiction

Short Fiction

• Mermaid Care
  Mermaids Monthly 12 (Dec 2021)
  Story notes

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Nonfiction

Articles

• Maps in Science Fiction
  The New York Review of Science Fiction 356 (Feb 2022)
• Celebrating Christopher Tolkien’s Cartographic Legacy
  Tor.com, 22 Jan 2020
• Where Do Fantasy Maps Come From?
  Tor.com, 23 Sep 2019
• An Exercise in Telling: Sylvain Neuvel’s Themis Files
  AE, 10 Jul 2019
• Fantasy Maps Don’t Belong in the Hands of Fantasy Characters
  Tor.com, 28 May 2019
• What Does a Fantasy Map Look Like?
  Tor.com, 19 Mar 2019
• A Literary Love Letter to Maps: The Writer’s Map
  Tor.com, 26 Nov 2018
• The Dúnedain and the Deep Blue Sea: On Númenórean Navigation
  Tor.com, 7 Nov 2018
  • As “Navigating Middle-earth Before the Bending of the Seas,” Tor.com, 16 Aug 2022.
• God and the Machines: The Short Fiction of Peter Watts
  AE, 25 May 2015
  • As “Dieu et les machines : les nouvelles de Peter Watts,” afterword to Au-delà du gouffre by Peter Watts (Le Bélial’, 2016); translated by Erwann Perchoc
• Here Be Blank Spaces: Vaguely Medieval Fantasy Maps
  The New York Review of Science Fiction 300 (Aug 2013)
• 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: History, Artistry, and Cartography 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.

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