My story A Pound of Darkness, a Quarter of Dreams appears in the latest issue of Lightspeed Magazine.
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Category Archives: short stories
The Human Way
The Human Way appears in the March/April 2017 Issue of Analog
Fans of the Recursion series may recognise Craig, Armstrong and Joanna – as well as the Eva Rye – from the beginning of Divergence.
The story continues the Fair Exchange series that has been appearing in Analog over the past few years. It takes place in the Recursion universe around 10 years after the events depicted in the novels.
Another (almost) True Story
The Scooped Out Man
Dream London Hospital
My story Dream London Hospital appears in the anthology Fearsome Magics, edited by Jonathan Strahan
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Double Blind
My short story, Double Blind, appears in the anthology Solaris Rising 3, edited by Ian Whates.
The story is set in the same world as my short stories Third Person and The War Artist.
Threshold
My short story, Threshold, appears in the October 2014 issue of Analog.
The story continues the Fair Exchange series that has been appearing in Analog over the past few years. It takes place in the Recursion universe around 12 years after the events depicted in the novels.
The Region of Jennifer
My short story, The Region of Jennifer, appears in the June 2014 issue of Analog
This is the first of a series of stories I’ve been working on set in the Recursion universe. The action takes place 8 years after the events in Divergence and deals with some of the questions raised by the Big Share Out that occurred at the end of Divergence.
I’ve had the idea for this series for some time, from around the time I finished writing Divergence, in fact, however I found myself distracted by Robots and Dream Worlds in the meantime.
But I was missing writing Hard SF, and I had reached the point where I just couldn’t not get the ideas down on the page, and The Region of Jennifer was the first result.
Watch this space, there are more stories in the Fair Exchange series to come…
Year’s Best SF 18 (ed. Hartwell)
My story “If Only… ” appears in this collection. The story originally appeared in Nature 489, 170 (06 September 2012)
21st Century Science Fiction
Featuring “The Waters of Meribah” by Tony Ballantyne (Originally published in Interzone 189)
One of the most creepily memorable stories in modern SF
-David G Hartwell
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A bumper crop of 34 stories from authors who first came to prominence in the 21st century, compiled by two of the most highly respected editors in the business….Grab this book. Whether newcomer or old hand, the reader will not be disappointed.
–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In my more than 40 years working in the science fiction publishing industry, I’ve seen this notion crop up every 10 years or so: ‘Science fiction has exhausted itself. There are no good new writers coming along anymore. The genre is finished!’ Tor editors Hartwell and Nielsen Hayden thoroughly refute such claims….Twenty-First Century Science Fiction will certainly be recognized as one of the best reprint science fiction anthologies of the year, and it belongs in the library of anyone who is interested in the evolution of the genre.
–Gardner Dozois
Tony Ballantyne 