"Number Nine Moon" in F&SF, January/February 2016

Hey, here's the cover of the January/February 2016 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which among other goodies contains my short story "Number Nine Moon."

It's my first F&SF story in a year or so, and I think my fifteenth overall? I guess I should count. Also I should do more short stories. In a lot of ways they're my favorite things to write.

What You'll See from Me in 2016, So Far

A forecast of novels, comics, and stories I have coming out in the first half of 2016...

January: Short stories were my first love and I wish I could write more of them. Maybe this year I will.

"Number Nine Moon," in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

February: Two Marvel junior novelizations and the debut of a new comic series building up to the release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Marvel Phase Two: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Marvel Phase Two: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Deus Ex: Children's Crusade #1

March: New York Collapse! This book is really something different than the other tie-ins I've worked on. Multilayered and thoroughly woven into the game. Plus, more Deus Ex!

Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse
Deus Ex: Children's Crusade #2

April: Ant-Man for the kids, plus more Children's Crusade!

Marvel Phase Two: Ant-Man
Deus Ex: Children's Crusade #3

May: Children's Crusade continues...

Deus Ex: Children's Crusade #4

June: The wrap-up of Children's Crusade, and a novelization of the Independence Day sequel, which (judging from the script) is even bigger and more spectacular than the original movie.

Independence Day: Resurgence
Deus Ex: Children's Crusade #5

Deux Ex: Children's Crusade

Hey, look! Here are a couple of covers for the first issue of a comic I'm writing, Deus Ex: Children's Crusade. The covers have different artists, as you can see, and John Aggs is doing the interior art (which looks great). What's it about, you ask? A bit of teaser copy:

With society still reeling from the Aug Incident – the Illuminati orchestrated event which caused augmented individuals to mindlessly attack their ‘natural’ counterparts – anti-aug sentiment is at an all-time global high. Task Force 29 – an Interpol-funded coalition, created to quash the rising tide of terrorist activity – stands as the world’s main defence against total anarchy.

In the city of Prague, where tension is especially high, the team’s latest recruit, Adam Jensen, readies for his first mission with the unit. But being augmented himself, how will the former SWAT officer handle himself when faced with the grim reality of the mechanical apartheid?