BOOKS

Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (co-edited with Andy Duncan). New York: Tor, 2004.

SHORT FICTION

“The Serpent and the Hatchet Gang.” Forthcoming in Black Static (formerly The Third Alternative).

“Madeline’s Version.” Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, 2004.

“The Last Testament of Major Ludlum.” The Sucarnochee Review, 2004. Reprinted in Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers, ed. Don Noble. Livingston Press, 2004.

“Legacy.” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 13, November 2003.

“The Sexual Component of Alien Abduction (Three-Headed Alien Blues).” Say…#1, 2002.

“When John Moore Shot Carl Bell.” Carriage House Review, Winter 2001.

“It Came Out of the Sky.” The North Carolina Literary Review, 2001.

“Flannery on Stage.” Indigenous Fiction, June 2001.

“What They Did to My Father.” Black Gate, Summer 2001.

“The Light of the Ideal.” Century, Winter 2000.

“Up Above the Dead Line.” The Dead Mule, January 2000.

“Wishing and Hoping.” Forbidden Lines, Summer 1993.

“The Waiting Is the Hardest Part.” The Spectator (Raleigh, NC) November 1992.

“Love Is All You Need.” Forbidden Lines, November 1990.

PLAYS

“Christopher Durang Is Under the Weather.” Original ten-minute play. Performed in a staged reading as part of the Vermont Playwrights Circle “Take 15” evening of readings, 24 May 2005.

“It Came Out of the Sky.” Original one-act, revised and expanded as my short story of the same title. Performed as part of Gordon College Theater Showcase, Barnesville, Georgia, April 1998.

“The Waiting Is the Hardest Part.” Dramatic monologue adapted from my original short story of the same title. Performed as part of Gordon College Theater Showcase, Barnesville, Georgia, April 1995.

ARTICLES

“The Brute Facticity of the Corpse: James Morrow, Science Fiction Writer.” Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, Vol. 5., No. 12 (1999).

“Other-Consuming Artifacts: The Cautionary Tales of John Kessel.” The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1997.

“Epiphanies of the Mind and Heart: John Kessel’s Meeting in Infinity and Bruce Sterling’s Globalhead.” The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1995.

“’What Need, Then, for Poetry?’: The Genteel Tradition and the Continuity of American Poetry.” The New England Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 2 (1994).

“’We Mean It, Man’: Nancy Kress’ ‘Out of All Them Bright Stars’ and James Patrick Kelly’s ‘Rat.’” The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1992.

“James P. Blaylock’s ‘Unidentified Objects’: In Memory Of.” Short Form, February 1990.

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Good: A Theory of Value/A Value of Theory.” Short Form, October 1989.

“John Kessel: The Security of Influence.” Short Form 1, 1989.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Steampunk,” “Television and Radio,” “Writers and Writing,” “Stranger in a Strange Land,” “The X-Files.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. Ed. Gary Westfahl. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

“Keith Roberts.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers. Ed. Darren Harris-Fein. Gale Research, 2002.

“Mark Childress,” “Edwidge Dandicat,” “William Gay,” “Bruce Sterling.” Contemporary Novelists, 7th Ed. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. St. James Press, 2001.

“Palgrave’s Golden Treasury.” The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, ed. Nancy Lewis Tuten and John Zubizaretta. Greenwood Press, 2001.

“Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Novels for Students, Vol. 3. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin Hile. Gale, 1998.

“Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.” Novels for Students, Vol. 2. Ed. Diane Telgen. Gale, 1997.

“John Kessel,” “Jack McDevitt,” “James Morrow.” St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, ed. Jay P. Pederson. St. James Press, 1995.

REVIEWS

I’ve published numerous book reviews over the past decade. For a list of my reviews that appeared in 2005, click here.

INTERVIEWS

With Jack McDevitt. Science Fiction Research Association Review No. 254-5, September-December 2001.

With James Morrow. Science Fiction Weekly 188, November 27, 2000.

OTHER

“Introduction” (with Andy Duncan). Crossroads, 2004.

“Two Nineteenth-Century American Science-Fiction Poems.” The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1997.