This is a reprint, but if you missed it the first time around, Infinite Tiny Lives, Infinitely Small is available in this month’s Flash Fiction Online!
Grandma kept her civilizations on a shelf in the living room. She always let me dust them.
(If you’ve already read that one, or if you read it just now and feel like you need more, you can find an original flash story by me in this month’s Fantasy Magazine!)
Just out today, check out a new flash story by me in this month’s Fantasy Magazine!
Although I primarily publish Science Fiction these days, as I reader I was always more of a Fantasy guy. So I am very excited to grace the pages of Fantasy magazine!
So. Fucking. Metal.
Baron Samedi pounds the drums and the whole floor shakes. That’s his thing, earthquakes. I heard the Skull Suckers played Santa Monica and the Baron literally brought the whole place down during a blistering solo of “The Devil May Ride.”
Hopefully you know me well enough by now to know that the story has more heart than it first appears!
I believe the story will be available online later this month, but if you can’t wait that long to get it into your hot little hands (or if you just enjoy great content from a great magazine, you can subscribe here!
Just an update to say that a new story by me, “John Henry Was a Steel Driving Man”, is out now in the March/April issue of Analog Magazine! (If you are not a subscriber, a digital issue can be purchased here, or if you’re lucky enough to live by a newsstand or book store that carries Analog, you can pick up a paper copy!)
My, it has been a long time since I’ve had an announcement like this, hasn’t it? I just looked back and I hadn’t had anything new come out in all of 2020. To be honest, I haven’t written much in the past year and a half, or so (mostly for obvious reasons). So here’s to starting 2021 off right, and I will say that I have a few more publications coming up soon to tell you about.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my retelling of John Henry in SPAAAAAACE! As always, I am humbled to grace the pages of Analog (and never more so when I manage to slip in a story about unionizing!) (Unionizing IN SPAAAAAACE!)
Catch a new story by me in the January / February issue of Analog, in bookstores / on sale now!
It’s always exciting to be in Analog, of course, but THIS month, my name made the cover!
Imagine someone picking up a magazine and going, “Huh, a new story by Shane Halbach?”
I can’t even.
BUT IT GETS BETTER!
As if that weren’t enough, I flipped open the magazine to this PERFECT IN EVERY WAY, MULTI-PAGE illustration of my story:
There are not enough hearts-in-eyes emojis to properly demonstrate my feeling about this illustration.
(OMG a purple HP Lovecraft peeking out over a small town!)
This story was previously available in print, but I’m VERY please to say they have produced it in audio as well! I am always happy when I can share a story for free to a wider audience!
As long time readers know, I love the horror genre to death, but I write precious little of it these days. So if you’re in the mood for something creepy, see how this strikes you:
It’s an alt-history, steampunk (ethanol-punk?) Civil War / Lovecraft mashup in epistolary format. So if Civil War-era mechs battling tentacle beasts from space is something that sounds like it will appeal to you, 1) you should check this out, and 2) you’re my kind of person.
Shane Halbach 