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New Books by Susan R. Matthews

Warring States
(February 2006)

The Devil and Deep Space   
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READ unpublished excerpts —
Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor

Hello! Yes, I've started writing short stories. You'll find the stories in the anthologies listed below.

"Night Breezes," a Jurisdiction Universe short story, is available online. Read about it below.


Author tees off into the challenging
world of
short fiction.


ReVISIONS
(August, 2004)

edited by
Julie Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel
15 all-original tales of "what might have been" if events in our world had unfolded differently.

STARS:
Janis Ian's Universe
(2003)

edited by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick

Read a transcript of an online chat with Janis Ian.

"Society's Stepchild "

An ill-advised liaison between a young Telchik Dolgorukij student of government and her Sarvaw sweetheart has tragic consequences.


Women Writing Science Fiction as Men
(2003)

Edited by Mike Resnick

DAW
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7564-0148-8

"Thumping the Weaver"

A Nurail weave-keeper, bereft of his Weaver, faces an unusual challenge in Gonebeyond space; and—in the best tradition of this developing community—hits upon a unique solution to the problem.


New Voices in Science Fiction 
(2003)

Edited by Mike Resnick

"Insubordination"

Joslire Curran encounters a tormentor from his days at Fleet Orientation Station Medical and is desperate to keep his distance, but—without time to speak to his own officer of assignment, Andrej Koscuisko—how can he do that and protect Robert St. Clare from suffering


Orycon 24 Program Book
(November 2002)


Read the story online!

 

"Night Breezes"

The Ragnarok has long since left Port Burkhayden, but challenging issues still face the Nurail community there; issues to which the Danzilar prince on the one hand, and Sylyphe Tavart and Skelern Hanner on the other, have different approaches of varying degrees of success.


Note: This isn't an anthology publication or a magazine publication per se; it's a short story in the program book. If you attended Orycon 24, you received a copy in your program book.

Now, for the first time, this story is available to everyone who couldn't make it to Oregon last November. I hope you enjoy it!


SF & Magic
(2004)

Edited by eluki bes shahar


 

 

"Snake in the Grass"

A respected community leader is revealed as having dabbled in dangerous energies; can her friend reconcile with spiritual powers she rejected to avenge a wrong.

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