Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: Fiction

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Iris Murdoch // The interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. - Isaac Asimov // The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson // A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu // Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. - Friedrich Nietzsche // The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. - Francis Bacon // Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. - Soren Kierkegaard // The possible ranks higher than the actual. - Martin Heidegger //

Fiction

LONG FICTION

with Robert Silverberg, When The Blue Shift Comes (U.S., Phoenix Pick, November 2012; U.K., Gollancz, March 2014) - Buy here (US) or here (UK)

POETRY

Conservation of Energy (Apex, Issue 63, August 2014) - Read here

SHORT FICTION

The Transfigured Knight (Lackington's, Issue #10, Summer 2016) - Purchase here

The Higher, The Fewer (Galaxy's Edge, Issue #19, March 2016) - Read here

Nature's Eldest Law (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2016) - Subscriptions available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the Analog website

The Rose Is Obsolete (Galaxy's Edge, Issue #17, November 2015) - Read here

Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2015) - Read here
Subscriptions available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the Analog website
Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 edited by Rich Horton - Purchase here

The Romance of Flying on Dead Languages (Bahamut, Issue #1, Summer 2015, edited by Rima Abunasser and Darin Bradley) - Read here
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Repeat After Me (2015 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, edited by Corie and Sean Weaver) - Purchase physical book or ebook via Amazon

The Black Hole and the Entropy Collector (Nature Physics 11, 288, 03 March 2015) - Read here
Guest post at Nature blog about the story behind this story

The Obvious Solution (Buzzy Magazine, February 6 2015) - Read here

Miranda's Wings (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Issue #10, November 2014) - Read here

Awarded "RECOMMENDED" rating by Locus online reviewer Lois Tilton

Dumpster Diving (Nature, Nature 514, 658, 30 October 2014) - Read here or Listen here
Guest post at Nature blog about the story behind this story

A Vision of Paradise (Bastion SF, Issue #7, October 2014) - Purchase issue via Amazon or subscribe here

The Memory-Setter's Apprentice (Fantasy Scroll, Issue #3, October 2014) - Read here or Listen here

Waste Knot, Want Knot (Nature Physics 10, 698, 01 September 2014) - Read here

Eine Kleine Nachtfilm (Galaxy's Edge, Issue #10, September 2014) - Read here

Hot and Cold (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2014) - Subscriptions available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the Analog website

Coffee in End Times, with Alex Shvartsman (Nature, Nature 506, 402, 20 February 2014) - Read here or Listen here or Listen here

The Wall Garden (The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Issue #7, November 2013) - Read here

All Quiet on the Golden Front (Galaxy's Edge, Issue #5, November 2013) - Purchase here

Nor Youth Nor Age (Basement Stories Magazine, Issue #1, July 2010)

Half a Block Away (New Dead Families, Issue #2, June 2010) - Read here

The Man Made Only of Straight Lines (Neon: A Literary Magazine, Issue #19) - Read here

Problems of the Solid State (Farrago's Wainscot, Issue 9, January 2009) - Read here

Arrows, Co-Arrows (Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine, Summer 2008) - Read here

The Filigree (Atomjack Magazine, Issue #9)