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Ian Creasey — News Archive


Recent news can be found on the home page. 

2 May 2009 — I have sold audio rights to Escape Pod for my story "The Hastillan Weed", which first appeared in Asimov's (Feb 2006).

15 April 2009 — My short story "Erosion" has been accepted by Asimov's.

19 March 2009 — My short story "This Is How It Feels" is now available as an audio download at Escape Pod.  The story originally appeared in Asimov's (March 2008); more background information can be read here.

5 November 2008 — I have sold audio rights to Escape Pod for my story "This Is How It Feels".

8 October 2008 — My short-short story "Reality 2.0" has been podcasted by StarShipSofa in their show Aural Delights #45.  Mine is the first story after the introduction; the show also includes longer stories by Mack Reynolds and Paolo Bacigalupi, and non-fiction by Matt Sanborn Smith.  Story background here.

11 August 2008 — The September 2008 issue of Asimov's, featuring my short story "Cut Loose the Bonds of Flesh and Bone", has been published.  For background information on the story, go here. 

11 August 2008 — My flash fiction piece "Rush Hours" is out now in the anthology Triangulation: Taking Flight, edited by Pete Butler and published by PARSEC Ink.  Anthology details are here; the story background is here.

13 May 2008 — My novelette "Digging for Paradise" has been accepted by Realms of Fantasy.

21 April 2008 — Three of my stories are available at AnthologyBuilder, a site selling personalised anthologies.  Readers can choose the stories they want from a wide-ranging database, which includes my "Drake's Devices" series "Demonstration Day", "Best In Show" and "The Franklin J. Berneville Memorial Trophy for Saving The World From Extreme Peril".  These stories originally appeared in online markets and can now be read in the exciting new dead-tree format. 

19 February 2008 — The March 2008 issue of Asimov's, containing my short story "This Is How It Feels", is out now.  Some background information on the story can be read here. 

10 February 2008 — My flash fiction story "Rush Hours" will be reprinted in the forthcoming Triangulation: Taking Flight anthology.

17 January 2008 — My short story "Cut Loose the Bonds of Flesh and Bone" has sold to Asimov's.

16 January 2008 — My poem "How to Build an Open-Source Deity" has been accepted for publication by Ideomancer.

20 December 2007 — I've reorganised my Audio page and added a new story, "Mr Tastee".

10 December 2007 — My story "Memories of the Knacker's Yard" is now available as a podcast at Pseudopod.   The background to the story is here.

5 November 2007 — The Milford UK pages now have their own URL at http://www.milfordSF.co.uk — the content will remain hosted here for the time being, but it would be best if anyone wanting to link to Milford used the new dedicated URL rather than http://www.iancreasey.com/milford/index.htm, in case the content is moved in future.

15 October 2007 — I have sold audio rights to Pseudopod for my story "Memories of the Knacker's Yard", which originally appeared in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest (#10 July 2007).

17 September 2007 — My novelette "Demonstration Day" has been podcasted by The Great Beyond in two instalments: Part One and Part Two.  This SF comedy was originally published in Oceans of the Mind (issue IX Fall 2003) and later reprinted in Jim Baen's Universe (Vol 1 Num 5, Feb 2007) — info.

29 August 2007 — My novella "Strawberry Thief" has been published in issue 345 of Weird Tales.  Read the inspiration and background behind the story here.

24 August 2007 — My short story "A Job For Life" is out now in the anthology Triangulation: End of Time edited by Pete Butler and published by PARSEC Ink. Anthology details here; story background here.

23 July 2007 — My story "Memories of the Knacker's Yard" has been published in issue 10 of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest.  The background to the story is here.

28 June 2007 — Year's Best SF 12, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, is out now from Eos, containing my story "Silence in Florence" (from Asimov's Sept 2006).  Buy the book at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk; read the story background here.

22 June 2007 — My short story "This Is How It Feels" has been accepted by Asimov's.

29 April 2007 — I have sold audio rights to The Great Beyond for my novelette "Demonstration Day", which first appeared in Oceans of the Mind (issue IX Fall 2003) and was subsequently reprinted in Jim Baen's Universe (Vol 1 Num 5, Feb 2007).

13 April 2007 — My story "The Sounds That Come After Screaming" is now available as a podcast at Pseudopod.  (Warning: this is a dark story and not for the squeamish; info.)

9 March 2007 — I have sold audio rights to Pseudopod for my story "The Sounds That Come After Screaming", which first appeared in On Spec (Spring 2002).

8 February 2007 — My story "Memories of the Knacker's Yard" was accepted by Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest.

1 February 2007 — My novelette "Demonstration Day" has been published in Jim Baen's Universe (Vol 1 Num 5, Feb 2007).  This story originally appeared in Oceans of the Mind (Issue IX, Fall 2003): info.

8 January 2007 — My story "Silence in Florence", which first appeared in Asimov's (Sept 2006), has been picked up for Year's Best SF 12, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, forthcoming from Eos in mid-2007.

1 December 2006 — My short story "A Job For Life", which originally appeared in AlienSkin, will be reprinted in the forthcoming anthology Triangulation: End of Time (PARSEC Ink).

20 November 2006 — I've uploaded some new content: the stories behind the stories. On the Bibliography page, click the "info" links to see the inspiration and background behind my published works.

19 October 2006 — My story "The Golden Record" is out now in the December 2006 edition of Asimov's.

22 August 2006 — My story "The Fisherman of Northolt" has been published in the Summer 2006 issue of Postscripts.

12 August 2006 — Firefox News have published my story "Night Shift on the Support Line": read it here.  The story originally appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (#8 Aug/Sept 2003).

9 August 2006 — My story "Silence in Florence" is out now in the September 2006 issue of Asimov's.

7 August 2006 — My short story "Night Shift on the Support Line", which originally appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, has been bought by Firefox News for electronic publication.

27 July 2006 — Aberrant Dreams have published my story "Heart of the Forest" in their Summer 2006 issue.

30 May 2006 — My short story "Gather All The Hours" has been published by webzine The Dark Krypt.

26 May 2006 — My novella "Strawberry Thief" has sold to Weird Tales.

21 April 2006 — My story "The Edge of the Map" has been published in the June 2006 issue of Asimov's.

9 April 2006 — The anthology Gods And Monsters, which contains a reprint of my story "The Chalk Giant", is out now and available from Amazon.co.uk; more details of the book's theme and contributors can be found at Simian Publishing.

21 March 2006 — The Spring 2006 issue of Oceans of the Mind, containing my novelette "The Franklin J. Berneville Memorial Trophy for Saving The World From Extreme Peril", has been published. The issue theme is "Tribute to the Golden Age of Pulps", and this story revisits characters previously seen in "Demonstration Day" (Oceans of the Mind, Fall 2003; due to be reprinted in Baen's Universe).

20 March 2006 — Dates have been announced for the Milford 2006 workshop.

16 March 2006 — My story "Gather All The Hours" has been accepted by The Dark Krypt for their May/June 2006 issue.

7 March 2006 — My short story "The Golden Record" has sold to Asimov's.

5 February 2006 — My novelette "The Franklin J. Berneville Memorial Trophy for Saving The World From Extreme Peril" has been accepted by Oceans of the Mind for their Spring 2006 issue.

19 January 2006 — The Winter 2006 issue of Shimmer is out, with my short-short "The Goldsmith".

13 January 2006 — The February 2006 issue of Asimov's is out now, containing my story "The Hastillan Weed".

29 December 2005 — My short story "A Sordid Boon" has just been published in the Winter 2005 issue of Here & Now.

13 December 2005 — My story "Heart of the Forest" has sold to Aberrant Dreams.

10 December 2005 — My novelette "Demonstration Day" has been accepted for reprint by Jim Baen's Universe.

3 December 2005 — I have taken on the hosting and maintenance of the Milford writers' workshop website.

1 December 2005 — My novelette "Infestation" has been published by ezine Deep Magic.

22 November 2005 — One of my older stories, "The Chalk Giant", will be reprinted in the forthcoming anthology "Gods & Monsters" from Simian Publishing.

10 November 2005 — My flash horror piece "The Goldsmith" has been accepted by Shimmer magazine.

8 November 2005 — The anthology "TEL : Stories", edited by Jay Lake and featuring my story "In Profit and In Loss", has just been published: details at Wheatland Press.

20 October 2005 — I've posted audio files of a few flash fiction pieces: download them here.

7 September 2005 — My novelette "Infestation" has been accepted by Deep Magic for publication in December.

13-20 August 2005 — I attended the Milford UK workshop: read all about it here.

25 July 2005 — My short story "Silence in Florence" was accepted by Asimov's.


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