Fiction by Linda Nagata

Short Fiction From Other Publishers

Published in 2021

"Ride"
A story about surveillance, AI, smart taxis, and climate change, set in the Pacific Storm story world. Published at Slate / Future Tense.
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Published in 2019

"Devil in the Dust"
A short story set on Mars in the last days of a bitter war. Included in the anthology Mission Critical, edited by Jonathan Strahan. (July 2019)

Published in 2018

"Theories of Flight"
A short story set in the world of my Campbell Memorial-award nominated novel, Memory. Published in the November/December 2018 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Editor: Sheila Williams. A top-5 finalist in the Asimov's Readers' Award Poll and included in The Best Science Fiction of the Year - Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke.

"Longing For Earth"
Not all things are possible, even in the far future. A short story included in Infinity's End, the final volume of the critically-acclaimed science fiction anthology series edited by Jonathan Strahan.
(July 2018)

Published in 2017

"Region Five"
A short story set in the Red story world, with new characters. Included in Infinite Stars, "a who's who of space opera and military science fiction," edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.

"The Martian Obelisk"
Winner of the Locus Award! Finalist for the Hugo and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards.
An architect on Earth is commissioned to create (via long distance) a masterwork with materials from the last abandoned Martian colony. Read it online at Tor.com. (Republished in several best-of-year anthologies and in French, Czech, Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Spanish, and Japanese translations.)

"Diamond and the World Breaker"
A short story about an incorrigible daughter. Included in Cosmic Powers, an anthology of EPIC GALACTIC FICTION! Edited by John Joseph Adams.

Published in 2015

"The Way Home"
A short story, unrelated to any of my other work, included in Operation Arcana, an anthology of military fantasy edited by John Joseph Adams, and also available to read online in the March 2015 issue of Lightspeed Magazine.

Published in 2014

"Light and Shadow"
Near-future military fiction from the story world of The Red. Included in War Stories, an anthology of military science fiction edited by Jaym Gates and Andrew Liptak (August 2014). Included in The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera edited by David Afsharirad and published by Baen Books.

"Attitude"
A near-future, hard SF look at contests and conflicts in low-Earth orbit. Included in Jonathan Strahan's hard science fiction anthology Reach For Infinity (May 2014).

"Codename: Delphi"
Near-future science fiction from the story world of my Nebula-nominated novel The Red: First Light. Read it online in the April 2014 issue of Lightspeed Magazine. Included in The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera edited by David Afsharirad and published by Baen Books.

Published in 2013

"Halfway Home"
A dark fantasy with a here-&-now setting...or is it magic realism? In either case, read it online in the September 2013 issue of Nightmare Magazine.

Selected for the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List and included in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Six.

"Out In The Dark"
A Nanotech Succession short story, the second to feature Commonwealth police officer Zeke Choy. Published in the June 2013 issue of Analog and included in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, edited by Rich Horton.

"Through Your Eyes"
The near-future story that inspired my novel The Red: First Light. Published in the April/May 2013 double issue of Asimov's.

Published in 2012

"A Moment Before It Struck"
A Puzzle Lands story published at Lightspeed Magazine August 2012. (available online)

"Nahiku West"
A Nanotech Succession story, published in the October 2012 issue of Analog. The story takes place in the years before The Bohr Maker and features the early life of a minor character from that book, Zeke Choy.
(2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award runner-up)

Selected for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition edited by Rich Horton, and The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 (audiobook) edited by Allan Kaster.

"Nightside on Callisto"
A short story published at Lightspeed Magazine in May 2012. (available online)

Selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois