he fiction I write tends to be quite often of the science-fiction, fantasy, or surreal variety. I am represented by Cameron McClure at the Donald Maass Literary Agency. If you would like to be put on an email list to be apprised of recent developments, upcoming events, or other fiction-writing news, send me a note through my contact page explaining as much. I promise to be merciful in the length and frequency of such notices. Feel free also to use the contact page just to say hello. If you are interested in having me write something for you, just ask. I like assignments.

Novels

• Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America (Tor Books, 2008). Click here to read the first chapter.
• Spaceman Blues: A Love Song (Tor Books, 2007). Click here to read the first chapter.

Reviews of my books have appeared in The Village Voice, Time Out New York, The Believer, Edmonton Journal, Las Vegas Weekly, Boing Boing, and io9. I have been interviewed on the radio shows The Leonard Lopate Show, Hour of the Wolf, Fictional Frontiers, and Changesurfer; the magazines Geek Monthly and ChronicArt; and the websites Bookslut, Amazon, Huffington Post, the Brooklyn Eagle, and the Mumpsimus.

Short Stories

• "The Big Deal," The Dirty Pond, November 2009.
• "Interviews After the Revolution," Interfictions 2, November 2009.
• "The World Is a Voice in My Neighbor's Throat," Brain Harvest, October 2009.
• "A Push-Reel Mower's Rumination on Mowing the Lawn in the Gas-Powered Age," McSweeney's Internet Tendency, August 2006.
• "The Things that Get You," Glimmer Train, spring 2002.
• Also, here are four short stories written at the behest of the Las Vegas Weekly.

Collaborations

• The tentatively titled One, Two, Three, Shoot, a collaboration with songwriter Drew Bunting. Readers suggest titles. I write a story. Drew writes a song. Readers grade and comment on our effort. An ongoing project.
• The Last of the Real Small Farmers, an illustrated book conceived and edited with Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, April 2009.

Recordings

Whenever possible, I do readings set to music improvised by a live band. Click here to hear a reading from Liberation. Click here to hear a reading from Spaceman Blues.

Brooklyn songwriter John Pinamonti has a song on his album End of Smith inspired by Spaceman Blues, which delights me to no end. Click here to hear it.