Books
We Speak Through the Mountain
Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University.
These Lifeless Things
Eva is a survivor. She's not sure what she survived, exactly, only that They invaded without warning, killed nearly all of humanity, and relentlessly attack everyone who's left. All she can do to stay sane, in the blockaded city that's no longer home, is keep a journal about her struggle.
Finalist for the Aurora Award/Prix Aurora
Finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
The Void Ascendant
Seven years ago, the last survivor of Earth crashed through uncountable dimensions and fetched up in a strange new world. Now Nick Prasad owes his life and livelihood to the royal family that employs him as a prophet, even though they are servants of the Ancient Ones who destroyed his home.
The Siege of Burning Grass
A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre.
Finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize – 2024
The Rider, the Ride, the Rich Man's Wife
Lucas is dismayed when his brother Kit is chosen to take part in the Hunt: a chase that takes place every seven years and acts as a sacrifice to the Rider and his Wife, ensuring a plentiful harvest, at least that year.
The Butcher of the Forest
At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless, foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic.
The Apple-Tree Throne
It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the streetlights; news can be easily had on the radio-viz; and in Gundisalvus' Land, the war is over and the soldiers are beginning to trickle home.
The Annual Migration of Clouds
In post–climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community.
Winner of the 2022 Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella
Finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
One Message Remains
Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril—'The General's Turn,' originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself might choose to join the audience… or step onto the stage.
No One Will Come Back For Us and other stories
Here there be gods and monsters – forged from flesh and stone and vengeance – emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavour is tested to the limits.
Winner of the Alberta Literary Award for Best Short Story Collection
New York Times Best Horror of 2023
Beneath the Rising
All the Birds in the Sky meets Lovecraft Country in this whimsical coming-of-age story about two kids in the middle of a war of eldritch horrors from outside spacetime.
Finalist for the Crawford Award
Finalist for the Locus Award
And What Can We Offer You Tonight
In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel's world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.
Winner of the Nebula Award for Novella
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Novella
A Broken Darkness
It's been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void. Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity—including his former friend Johnny.
Finalist for the Aurora Award/Prix Aurora
Finalist for the Locus Award for Best Novel