stories
2010
"Life So Dear Or Peace So Sweet" (novelet) The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed., forthcoming
- a Traitor to the Crown story
"Your Life Sentence" (short story) Futurismic, July 1, 2010
published as Charles Coleman Finlay
2009
"The Texas Bake Sale" (short story) Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2009
"The Minutemen's Witch" (novelet) Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2009
- a Traitor to the Crown story
2008
"The Crystal Stair, Part 2" co-authored with Rae Carson Finlay (novelet) Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nov. 20, 2008
"The Crystal Stair, Part 1" co-authored with Rae Carson Finlay (novelet) Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nov. 6, 2008
"The Political Prisoner" (novella) Fantasy & Science Fiction, August, 2008
- a Maxim Nikomedes story
- reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 26, Gardner Dozois, ed., forthcoming
- finalist, Nebula Award (best novella) 2009
- finalist, Hugo Award (best novella) 2009
- finalist, Sturgeon Award 2009
"The Cross-Time Accountants Fail to Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does the Twist" (short story) ccfinlay.livejournal.com, July 6, 2008
- a free blog bonus track
"The Rapeworm" (short story) Noctem Aeternus, January 2008
2007
"An Eye for an Eye" (novelet) Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2007
- reprinted in Science Fiction: Best of the Year 2008, Rich Horton, ed., 2008
2006
"Abandon the Ruins" (novella) Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2006
- a Maggot story; takes place after the events of The Prodigal Troll
- translated into Russian by V. Grishechkin for Esli (April, 2007)
"Passing Through" (short story) Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2006
- a Little Limestone Island story
"The Third Brain" co-authored with James Allison (short story) Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2006
"Hail, Conductor" (short story) Talebones, Spring 2006
2005
"The Moon is Always Full" (short story) Strange Horizons, Oct. 31, 2005
- a Little Limestone Island story
"The Slug Breeder's Daughter" (short story) Subterranean Magazine, Autumn 2005
"Her Life Sentence" (short story) original to collection, signed-numbered edition only, Wild Things, 2005
"The Nursemaid's Suitor" (novella) Black Gate, #8, Summer 2005
- a Maggot story, excerpted from The Prodigal Troll
"Of Silence and the Man at Arms" (short story) Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005
- a Kuikin and Vertir story
"Still Life With Action Figure" (short story) Argosy Quarterly, Spring 2005
- collected in Wild Things
"Horny in the Underworld" (short story) Electric Velocipede, Spring 2005
"Love and the Wayward Troll" (novelet) Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2005
- a Maggot story, excerpted from The Prodigal Troll
"Moons Like Great White Whales" (short story) Strange Horizons, Feb. 28, 2005
- translated into Hebrew for Bli Panika (Israel), March 2006
2004
"The Smackdown Outside Dedham" (short story) H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Fall 2004
- collected in Wild Things
"The Ill-Fated Crusade" (short story) Paradox, June 2004
"After the Gaud Chrysalis" (novelet) Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2004
- a Kuikin and Vertir story
- reprinted in In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Sword and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Gordon Van Gelder, ed., 2004
- collected in Wild Things
"The Factwhore Proposition" (short story) Futurismic, May 2004
- collected in Wild Things
"Pervert" (short story) Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2004
- reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction #10, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds., 2005
- translated into Hebrew by Rami Shalheveth for The Tenth Dimension (Israel), #22-23, September 2004
- translated into Portuguese by Tiago Game for Phantases (Portugal), # 2, Spring 2006
- translated into Romanian by Daniela Moraru for Sci-Fi Magazin (Romania), #2, November 2007
- translated into Czech for F&SF (Czech Republic), Summer 2009
- recorded for podcast at Escape Pod, Aug. 8, 2008
- finalist, Gaylactic Spectrum Award (short form) 2005
- collected in Wild Things
"The Seal Hunter" (novelet) Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan. 2004
- an asteroid colony/Broadnax story
- collected in Wild Things
2003
"Wild Thing" (short story) Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2003
- reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy #4, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds., 2004
- collected in Wild Things
"Lucy, in Her Splendor" (short story) Marsdust, April 2003
- a Little Limestone Island story
- reprinted in the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #15, Stephen Jones, ed. 2004
- collected in Wild Things
- reprinted in By Blood We Live, John Joseph Adams, ed. 2009
"For Want of a Nail" (novelet) Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2003
- a Kuikin and Vertir story
"A Game of Chicken" (short story) Fantasy & Science Fiction, Feb. 2003
- collected in Wild Things
2002
"Roadkill" (short story) Ideomancer Unbound, Chris Clarke and Mikal Trimm, eds., Dec. 2002
"A Democracy of Trolls" (novella) Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2002
- a Maggot story, excerpted from The Prodigal Troll
"Fading Quayle, Dancing Quayle" (short story) The Book of More Flesh, James Lowder, ed., Oct. 2002
- reprinted in The Best of All Flesh, James Lowder, ed., forthcoming 2009
- collected in Wild Things
"We Come Not to Praise Washington" (novelet) Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2002
- reprinted in One Lamp: Alternate History Stories From The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Gordon Van Gelder, ed., 2003
- finalist, the Sidewise Award (short form)2003
- collected in Wild Things
"The Frontier Archipelago" (short story) On Spec, Summer, 2002
- an asteroid colony/Broadnax story
- collected in Wild Things
"The Political Officer" (novella) Fantasy & Science Fiction, April, 2002
- a Maxim Nikomedes story
- reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 20, Gardner Dozois, ed., July 2003
- finalist, Hugo Award (best novella) 2003
- finalist, Nebula Award (best novella) 2003
- translated into Greek by Β. Αθανασιάδης for Ετήσια Ανθολογία Επιστημονικής Φαντασίας 2 (Greece), 2004
- collected in Wild Things
2001
"Footnotes" (short story) Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001
- first published story
- collected in Wild Things |  |
