I haven't written one of these in a while, but 2018 was really good to me, so I thought I'd let people know about things I wrote. I had two things published!
Novel: The Quantum Magician
My first novel was published this year (!) by Analog Magazine (Jan/Feb 2018 - May/Jun 2018), Solaris Books (Oct 2018), SFWorld in Mandarin (June, 2018). The French version will be out in France in early 2020 by Albin-Michel.
It's a heist story set about 500 years into humanity's interstellar and bioengineered future. My literary agent describes it as "Ocean's Eleven in space," Solaris calls it "Ocean's Eleven written by Iain Banks," and Albin-Michel described it as "Peter Watts on laughing gas." It's been doing great at Goodreads and I did what feels like a bunch of podcast and radio interviews. And it got blurbed by Liu Cixin, Yoon Ha Lee and Julie Czerneda!
If you're a member of SFWA (active or associate), The Quantum Magician is eligible in the novel category of the Nebulas. If you haven't gotten a copy, e-ARCs are available in the passworded forums on the SFWA site.
If you're an attendee or supporting member of the 2017 Helsinki Worldcon, 2018 San Jose WorldCon, or the 2019 Dublin WorldCon, The Quantum Magician is eligible for the Hugo Award in the novel category.
And if you're a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, The Quantum Magician is eligible for the Aurora Award in the novel category.
If you decide to read it, I hope you enjoy!
The Nov/Dec issue of Asimov's Magazine ran my 10,400 word novelette "Water and Diamond." This was my first commissioned story ever. I was flown to Hangzhou, China with some other western SF writers and some Chinese SF writers, to tour and get briefed on all of the high-tech stuff happening at Ant Financial (an Alibaba spin-off). After seeing their AI stuff, new user interface tech, security things, and their F-Division (for future!), we went home and wrote novelettes inspired by what we saw. It was a lot of fun and I learned so much. Our hosts bought the Chinese rights, but I sold the English rights to Asimov's and I'm really eager to have readers.
As with The Quantum Magician, if people feel it is warranted, Water and Diamond is eligible for nomination in the Nebulas and Hugos in the novelette category. And for SFWA members, a pdf e-ARC is available in the passworded section of the SFWA forums. For the Aurora Awards, there is only a short fiction category, so novellas, novelettes and short stories are all jumbled into that category :)
And as I go through my own award reading, I'm tweeting about stories and novels I think are cool - they're all at @derekkunsken, usually under the hashtag #nebulareading or #nebulalistening