"The Bicameral Twist" and "The Long Dream"

There will be at least two more stories out from me this year, it looks like. Maybe three, possibly four. If the fourth happens, I count seven new stories in different venues for 2016, which for me is a pretty big haul.

One of those stories is available now in Molly Tanzer's amazing new journal of thoughtful and well-plotted erotica, CONGRESS. You can check out the first issue here, containing my story "The Bicameral Twist." It is pretty smutty and properly tawdry, but also, I am proud to say, definitively within the genre of hard science fiction ("The Bicameral Twist" is neuro-porno, not Beltway porno). With the rise of Chuck Tingle at the Hugos this year, I am preparing my acceptance speech for 2017.

In the fall, I'm pleased to say that my story "The Long Dream" will be among a very impressive list of contributors in Joe Pulver's Cabinet-of-Dr.-Caligari tribute anthology The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Here's the very stellar table of contents:
Ramsey Campbell – “The Words Between”
Damien Angelica Walters – “Take a Walk in the Night, My Love"
Rhys Hughes - "Confessions of a Medicated Lurker"
Robert Levy – “Conversion”
Maura McHugh - "A Rebellious House"
David Nickle – “The Long Dream”
Janice Lee – “Eyes Looking”
Richard Gavin – “Breathing Black Angles”
S.P. Miskowski – “Somnambule”
Nathan Carson – “The Projection Booth”
Jeffrey Thomas – “The Mayor of Elementa”
Nadia Bulkin – “Et Spiritus Sancti”
Orrin Grey – “Blackstone: A Hollywood Gothic”
Reggie Oliver – “The Ballet of Dr. Caligari”
Cody Goodfellow – “Bellmer’s Bride"Michael Griffin – “The Insomniac Who Slept Forever”
Paul Tremblay – “Further Questions for the Somnambulist”
Michael Cisco – “The Righteousness of Conical Men”
Molly Tanzer – “That Nature Which Peers Out in Sleep”
Daniel Mills – “A Sleeping Life”
John Langan – “To See, To Be Seen”
Gemma Files – “Caligarism”
These two stories ("The Bicameral Twist" and "The Long Dream") will join "The Caretakers" (Tor.com),  "The Parable of the Cylinder" (Canadian Notes & Queries) and "Jules and Richard" (Children of Lovecraft) in definitively-scheduled 2016 titles.

There are two others that might or might not come out this year. Whether it's this year or next, though... you'll hear about them here.