Ferrett Steinmetz's Stories

I’d been a writer for twenty years, without much success.  Then, in 2008, I went to the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and it showed me everything I’d been doing wrong.  In fact, Clarion was so influential on me that I rebooted my writing career, calling off those past two decades and starting over again from August 2008.  Hence, everything you’ll see here is from 2008 on.

My Upcoming Novel “Flex“

Dudes!  My Breaking Bad-meets-magic urban fantasy novel Flex is coming out from Angry Robot Books on March 3rd, 2015! I’ve even got a book page up for it and everything!  Go check it out, or pre-order it at Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Powell’s!

Upcoming Short Story Publications:

• “Rooms Formed of Neurons and Sex,” GUD Magazine (early 2015)

Published Short Stories For Your Reading Pleasure:

• “The Bliss Machine,” Three-Lobed Burning Eye (Issue #25)
• “Four Scenes From Wieczniak’s Whisk-U-Away, And One Not,” Fantasy Scroll Magazine (Issue #2)
• “Black Swan Oracle,” What Fates Impose Anthology (or hear the Escape Pod audio production!)
• “In Extremis,” Space and Time Magazine (Issue #120)
• “The Cultist’s Son,” Apex Magazine
• “The Sturdy Bookshelves of Pawel Oliszewski,” Intergalactic Medicine Show
• “Riding Atlas,” Three-Lobed Burning Eye (Issue #22) (Or hear the Pseudopod audio production!)
• “Shadow Transit,” Buzzy Mag (July 2013)
• “Shoebox Heaven,” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (April 2013)
• “One-Hand Tantra,” Unidentified Funny Objects anthology (December 2012)
• “Dead Merchandise,” Kaleidotrope (Or hear the Escape Pod audio production!) (October 2012)
• “In The Unlikely Event,” Daily Science Fiction (March 2012)
• “‘Run,’ Bakri Says,” Asimov’s (Oct 2011 issue), then Escape Pod (audio performance + full text)
• “Devour,” Escape Pod (Audio production + full text)
• “Sauerkraut Station,” Giganotosaurus (Nov 2011)
• “iTime,” Redstone Science Fiction (Oct 2011)
• “My Father’s Wounds,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Sept 2011) (Or hear the BCC audio production!)
• “As Below, So Above” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nov 2011) (Or hear the PodCastle audio production!)
• “A Window, Clear As A Mirror” (Shimmer Issue #13) (Or hear the PodCastle audio production!)
• “The Backdated Romance” (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue #47)
• “In the Garden of Rust and Salt” (GUD Magazine Issue #6)
• “Under The Thumb Of The Brain Patrol” (Asimov’s, Sept/Oct 2010)
• “The Sound of Gears” (The Edge of Propinquity #36) (Or hear the Pseudopod audio production!)
• “Dead Prophecies” (Three-Lobed Burning Eye Issue #19)
• “In The Land of the Deaf” (Electric Spec Issue #13)
• “Camera Obscured” (Asimov’s, Sept/Oct 2009)
• “At The Unicorn Factory” (Bards and Sages Quarterly, Issue #1)
• “Home Despot” (Big Pulp)
• “Suicide Notes, Written By An Alien Mind” (Pseudopod Audio Production)
• “The Elderly Cyborg” (Leading Edge Issue #58)