Short Fiction

 A Song of Ice and Fire
Blood of the Dragon
"Blood of the Dragon"
Asimov's July 1996 (US)		 Path of the Dragon
"Path of the Dragon"
Asimov's December 2000 (US)		 of the Dragon
Dragon Magazine
Special Westeros Issue, May 2003 (US)		 Path of the Dragon
"Path of the Dragon"
Gigamesh Paperback 2004 (Spain)		 The Arms of the Kraken
"The Arms of the Kraken"
Gigamesh Paperback 2005 (Spain)


 Portraits of His Children
Portraits of His Children
Asimov's November 1985		 Portraits of His Children
Electric Story 2005


 Tuf Series
Guardians
Analog, October 1981		 Manna from Heaven
Analog, Mid-December 1985		 The Plague Star
"The Plague Star"
Analog, January 1985


 Windhaven
One-Wing
"One-Wing"
Analog, January 1980		 The Storms of Windhaven
"The Storms of Windhaven"
Analog, May 1975


 Others
 Dying of the Light
After the Festival
"After the Festival"
Analog, April 1977		  Nightflyers
Nightflyers
Analog April 1980
And Seven Times Never Kill Man
"And Seven Times Never Kill Man"
Analog, July 1975		 Bitterblooms
"Bitterblooms"
Cosmos, November 1977		 The Glass Flower
"The Glass Flower"
Asimov's, September 1986		 In The House of the Worm
"In The House of the Worm"
Electric Story, 2006
Meathouse Man
"Meathouse Man"
The Living Dead
Nightshade 2008 (US)		 The Pear-Shaped Man
"The Pear-Shaped Man"
Pulphouse Paperback 1991		 The Second Kind of Loneliness
"The Second Kind of Loneliness"
Analog, December 1972		 Shadow Twin
"Shadow Twin"
Subterranean Press, 2005 (US)
Under Seige
"Under Seige"
Infinivox Audio 1985

"The Second Kind of Loneliness" was the first story of mine ever to get a cover, and spoiled me early. The Frank Kelly Freas cover for Analog, showing my protagonist brooding over the multicolored whorl of a nullspace vortex, was nothing short of spectacular, and true to the story as well. I desperately wanted to buy the original, and Kelly offered it to me for $200. But I had only been paid $250 for the story, so I finally decided the painting was more than I could afford. One of the worse decisions I ever made. Today the "Second Kind of Loneliness" cover is widely regarded as classic Freas, worth ten thousand dollars at the least. (I did buy one of Freas's color studies for the cover, as well as the splendid black & white illustration for the splash page).

I was incredibly fortunate in my Analog covers during the 70s, if truth be told. My stories were illustrated by virtually all of the leading SF artists of the period. Besides Freas, there was Jack Gaughan, Paul Lehr, Vincent diFate, and the wonderfully gifted John Schoenherr, whose marvelous cover painting for "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" is another of my favorites.

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