Free Speculative Fiction Online: Jay Lake

Jay Lake

Nominated for 2 Hugos.

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only! Other awards, including the Retro Hugos, are not covered)

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Stories currently online:

Skinhorse Goes to Mars
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The River Knows Its Own
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Christmas Season (Strange Horizons, June 2002)
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The Angle of My Dreams (3SF #1, October 2002)
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The Scent of Rotting Roses (Strange Horizons, November 2002)
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Jack’s House (Strange Horizons, December 2002)
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The Goat Cutter (Greetings from Lake Wu Collection, 2003)
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All Our Heroes Are Bastards (Third Alternative #35, Summer 2003)
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One Is All Alone (Strange Horizons, January 2003)
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Dresséd All in Green, Oh (Strange Horizons, February 2003)
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Three the Rivals (Strange Horizons, March 2003)
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Under the Purplefan Trees (RevolutionSF, March 2003)

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Gospel Truth (Strange Horizons, April 2003)
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The Symbols at Their Doors (Strange Horizons, May 2003)
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Proud Walkers (Strange Horizons, June 2003)
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Stars in the Sky (Strange Horizons, July 2003)
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Over the Walls of Eden (Descant #122, August 2003)
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Aprill, With His Shoures Soote (Strange Horizons, August 2003)
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Brightly Shining (Strange Horizons, September 2003)
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The Cleansing Fire of God (Strange Horizons, September 2003)
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Deka Logos (Strange Horizons, October 2003)
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Eleven Went to Heaven (Strange Horizons, November 2003)
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For the Twelve (Strange Horizons, December 2003)
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The Git, the Dog, the Fish, and the Gray (Electric Velocipede #6, Spring 2004)
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Pax Agricola (Lone Star Stories #1, February 2004)
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Jesus and the Cowboys (Dragons, Knights and Angels, March 2004)
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Clown Eggs (Abyss & Apex #9, May 2004)
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A Conspiracy Of Dentists (LCRW #14, June 2004)
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The Angel’s Daughter (Realms of Fantasy, August 2004)
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best Fantasy of the Year’, 2004 Edition.
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Crimson Mud, Drying Blood (Lone Star Stories #4, August 2004)
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The Dying Dream of Water (Flytrap #3, November 2004)
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The Hangman Isn’t Hanging (Lone Star Stories #9, June 2005)
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With Ruth Nestvold: The Rivers of Eden (Futurismic, July 2005)
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Four Clowns of the Apocalypse (Lone Star Stories #11, October 2005)
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Alien Dreams (RevolutionSF, November 2005)

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Lehr, Rex (Forbidden Planets Anthology, 2006)
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Stephenson’s Rocket (Lone Star Stories #17, October 2006)
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With Ruth Nestvold: The Big Ice (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 1 No. 4, December 2006)
Available as part of this magazine. Also available on a freely distributable CD.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Fourth Edition.
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Chewing Up the Innocent (Clarkesworld #5, February 2007)
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Eating Their Sins and Ours (Lone Star Stories #21, June 2007)
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In the Forests of the Night (METAtropolis Anthology, 2008)
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The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black (Clarkesworld #18, March 2008)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Sixth Edition.
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Last Plane to Heaven: A Love Story (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 3 No. 1, June 2008)
A sample from this magazine.
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A Water Matter (Tor.com, October 2008)
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009’.
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To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves (New Space Opera Anthology #2, 2009)
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On the Human Plan (Lone Star Stories #31, February 2009)
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Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Seventh Edition.
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010’.
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With Shannon Page: Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story (Clarkesworld #31, April 2009)
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Leopard (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 4 No. 1, June 2009)
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People of Leaf and Branch (Fantasy Magazine, June 2009)
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Permanent Fatal Errors (Is Anybody Out There? Anthology, 2010)
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Human Error (Interzone #226, January 2010)
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With Ken Scholes: The Starship Mechanic (Tor.com, January 2010)
Alternate link. A sample from this collection.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Eighth Edition.
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With Ken Scholes: Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder (Tor.com, January 2010)
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Torquing Vacuum (Clarkesworld #41, February 2010)
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With Shannon Page: In the Emperor’s Garden (Fantasy Magazine, March 2010)
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The Speed of Time (Tor.com, August 2010)
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The Tentacled Sky (Drabblecast, September 2010)
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With Shannon Page: From the Countries of Her Dreams (Fantasy Magazine, November 2010)
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Her Fingers Like Whips, Her Eyes Like Razors (Postscripts #24/25, 2011)
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An Exile of the Heart (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)
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Ex Libris Noctis (Lightspeed, December 2015)
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