http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sub/Charles_Stross/index.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

Charlie's Virtual Anthology

Last changed: 2-March-1994

Among other things, I've sold a fair number of Science Fiction stories to various magazines and anthologies. As I don't seem likely to sell a collection in the near future, given the state of the market, I'm putting some of them online.

Note that these stories are Copyright (C) Charles Stross, 1994. Click here for a copyright notice. Unauthorized reproduction outside the terms of the notice is forbidden.

Here they are:

The Boys. Published in Interzone 21, in 1987: first professional sale.
SEAQ and Destroy. Published in There Won't Be War, in 1992. (Written in 1988, hence the anachronisms.)
The Midlist Bombers. Published in issue 4 of an obscure magazine called Farpoint that folded at issue 5, in 1991.
A Boy and his God. Contracted for publication in an even more obscure magazine called REM. REM was intended to be quarterly, which is why issue #3 is three years overdue.
Generation Gap. First published in Interzone, issue thirty-something.
Yellow Snow. First published in Interzone 37 (July 1990).
Examination Night. Published in Villains, ed. Mary Gentle (Penguin 1992, UK).
Different Flesh. Hitherto unpublished (not many people are buying 28,000 word novellas.)
Ancient of Days. Published in volume 1 of a series of shared universe anthologies edited by Roz Kaveney (The Weerde, 1991).

(More work will appear here as and when I clear copyright issues with the publishers. Watch this space ...)

A note about Midnight Rose

The Weerde was one of three anthology series started by the Midnight Rose collective in 1989, for publication by Penguin books in the UK. The collective consisted of Roz Kaveney, Mary Gentle, Alex Stewart, and Neil Gaiman; the goal was to produce some genuinely good anthologies by British SF authors, showcasing the work of new writers and putting a slightly unusual spin on the usual subject matter of such books. The three series were The Weerde (as typified by this story), Temps (a rather ironic British superhero series), and Villains (an even more ironic swipe at the swords'n'sorcery market). The first books in each series sold quite well, which is why they were cancelled after volume two ...