Mary Soon Lee: Bibliography
Books
Poems
Short stories published in major markets
Short stories published in semi-pro and small press
markets
Stories available online from Fictionwise
Awards, Contests
Upcoming work
- "Sarai," MOTA 4: Integrity, August 2004
- "Shen's Daughter," Sword and Sorceress XX, Daw Books,
August 2003, ISBN 0-7564-0142-9; reprinted in The
Year's Best Fantasy #4, edited by David G. Hartwell
and Kathryn Cramer, published by Eos, ISBN 0-06-052182-1
- "Growing Pains," MarsDust, April 2003
- "Coming of Age," Analog, April 2003
- "Immigrants," The Third Alternative #33, Winter 2003
- "Making Fields," 3SF issue #1, October 2002
- "Homecoming," The Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown
Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001, October 2002 (first
published in "Winter Shadows and Other Tales").
- "New World,"
Interzone #176,
February 2002
- "The Strangers," Future Orbits #2, December 2001
- "Crew-Dog," Spectrum SF #7, November 2001;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Patterns," Realms of Fantasy, October 2001
- "Clever People," Bones of the World, SFF Net, August 2001,
ISBN 0-9669698-4-7, edited by Bruce Holland Rogers;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Luna Classifieds," Spectrum SF #6, August 2001
- "The Fall of the Kingdom," Sword and Sorceress XVIII, Daw Books,
May 2001, ISBN 0-88677-996-0
- "PauseTime," Spectrum SF #4, November 2000
- "Rewind," Terra Incognita #5, Summer 2000;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Murder Absolute,"
The Age of Wonders, SFF Net, August 2000, ISBN 0-9669698-3-9,
edited by Jeffry Dwight
- "1-800-Clone-Me," Altair #4, August 1999; now available
from Fictionwise
- "Tranquillity,"
Interzone #145,
July 1999;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Lifework,"
Interzone #144,
June 1999; reprinted in The Year's Best SF #5,
edited by David G. Hartwell, published by Eos,
ISBN 0-06-102054-0
- "Luna Incognita,"
Amazing Stories #596, Spring 1999;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Cause and Consequence,"
Interzone #136,
October 1998;
now available from Fictionwise
- "The Day Before They Came,"
Interzone #133,
July 1998; reprinted in The Year's Best SF #4,
edited by David G. Hartwell, published by HarperPrism,
ISBN 0-06-105902-1; reprinted in an Italian translation in
Intercom #5, 1999;
reprinted in the Polish magazine Nowa Fantastyka #202, 1999;
reprinted in the Japanese magazine Hayakawa SF, March 2001
- "Ex Terra, Ex Astris," Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Interior Landscape," Altair #1, February 1998;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Puppetta," Odyssey #1, November 1997
- "Monstrosity," Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1997;
reprinted in the CONduit 8 program book, May 1998;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Universal Grammar," Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1997;
reprinted in the Czech issue Fantasy & SF Magazin 5/1998
as "Univerzalni gramatika";
now available from Fictionwise;
reprinted as "Universele Grammatica" in the Dutch magazine
Visionair, issue #4, July 2000
- "The Hollow Dancer," Sword and Sorceress XIV, Daw Books, March 1997,
ISBN 0-88677-741-0; reprinted in Flesh and Blood #4 in May 1999.
- "Silent in the Cities,"
Aboriginal Science Fiction #51-52, December 1996;
reprinted in the Polish magazine Nowa Fantastyka #180, 1997;
reprinted in Italian in Nova SF* #30, Perseo Libri.
reprinted in Papyrus, May 1999.
- "The Tinkerbell Theory," Interzone #102, December 1995
- "Assembly Line," Interzone #98, August 1995;
reprinted in the Polish magazine Nowa Fantastyka #180, 1997;
reprinted in Electric Wine, April/May 2001
- "Ebb Tide," Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1995;
reprinted in the German anthology
"Die Halle der neuen Gesichter," published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1996,
ISBN 3-453-10949-X;
reprinted in Italian in Nova SF* #33, Perseo Libri.
reprinted in the Dutch magazine Visionair, issue #1, July 1998;
reprinted in the Spanish magazine Gigamesh, issue #21,
September 1999;
reprinted in the Japanese magazine Hayakawa SF, October 1999;
a slighly revised version was reprinted in the
SFF Net anthology,
"Between the Darkness and the Fire," August 1998, ISBN 1-880448-56-4;
reprinted in the Danish fanzine Science Fiction #3, September 2004.
- "A Piece of Strangeness", Tales of the Unanticipated #28, Summer
2007
- "Luna Beat", Tales of the Unanticipated #26, October 2005-July 2006
- "Common Courtesy", Kinships, Volume 1, #4, March 2002
- "More Than Magic", Elysian Fiction #1, June 2001;
now available from Fictionwise
- "On the Irritating...", Tales of the Unanticipated #22, April 2001
- "Birthdays", Kinships #1, March 2001
- "Insight", Space & Time #93, Spring 2001;
now available from Fictionwise
- "To the Maxi-Blender 3000, Serial Number 1-498-86", On Spec,
Winter 2000
- "Dragonslayer", Dark Regions #14, Winter/Spring 2000
- "No-Name in the Long Winter", On Spec, Winter 1999;
now available from Fictionwise
- "The Mother", Waxing & Waning #1, Fall 1999;
reprinted in Waxing & Waning, Volume 2, issue #1, Nov/Dec 2002
- "The Turtle God", Tales of the Unanticipated #20, August 1999;
now available from Fictionwise; reprinted in Hebrew in Bli Panika, August
2004
- "Vigil", Talebones #15, Spring 1999;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Courtly Love", TransVersions #10, March 1999;
now available from Fictionwise
- "The God on the Glass Cross", Galaxy, February 1999;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Slush", Pirate Writings #17, February 1999;
now available from Fictionwise
- "To Have and to Hold", Dark Regions #10, November 1998;
now available from Fictionwise
- "The Three Kingdoms", Talebones #12, July 1998;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Heron", TransVersions #8/9, June 1998;
now available from Fictionwise
- "Roadside Stop", Pirate Writings #15, December 1997
- "One Small Step", Pirate Writings #14, July 1997;
reprinted in The 2nd Coming, The Best of Pirate Writings Volume 2,
December 2003
- "On the Making of Treaties" Space & Time #87, Summer 1997
- "The Mural" Freezer Burn #7, February 1997
- "Not Another Unicorn" Distant Journeys, November 1996
- "Zero", Pirate Writings #12, November 1996
- "The Voice" Deathrealm #28, Summer 1996
- "Hillun of Troy" Plot Magazine #5, April 1996
- "Mail-a-Day" Pirate Writings #9, February 1996
- "The Dragonfly", Pirate Writings #8, November 1995
- "Shelter" Midnight Journeys, July 1995
- "Memory's Child" On Spec, Summer 1995
- "Dry Water" Random Realities #7, June 1995; reprinted in
Little Green Men #2, Summer 1996; reprinted in
Lost Ages Chronicle, October 1999
- "Conversation Pieces" Beyond #2, June/July 1995;
reprinted in Electric Wine Vol. 1, #4, May/June 2000
- "Unity" The Blind Spot, April 1995
- "Pandora's Dogs", Dream Forge, April 1995, issue #4; reprinted in
eSCENE 1996, July 1996;
reprinted in Eclectica Vol. 1, #5, February 1997
- "Seeing Deeper" Thirteenth Moon, March 1995; reprinted in
Mind's Eye Fiction, April 1996
- "Voices in the Wind" Star Tiger #9, November 1994; reprinted in
Mind's Eye Fiction, June 1997
- "Afternoon Story" Vision SF #18, August 1994; reprinted in
Dream Forge, October 1995, issue #10
- "Companion on the Road" Random Realities #5, June 1994
- "Winter Shadows" Just Write, March 1994
- "Marna-Li" Random Realities #3, June 1993; reprinted in Intermix,
December 1995
- "Gift" Strange Days #5, October 1992
- "On Reading Children's Books," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
August 18, 2012
- "Autumn Fire," Main Street Rag, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2012
- "Half-Caste," Main Street Rag, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2012
- "Open Houses," Concho River Review, Volume XXV1, Number 1,
Spring 2012
- "Before," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 20, 2011
- "On the Shelf," Main Street Rag, Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 2011
- "Aloud," Main Street Rag, Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 2011
- "Numbers," Concho River Review, Volume XXV, Number 1, Spring 2011
- "Monongahela River" in 5 AM, issue #32
- "No One Could Love It," The Fourth River, Issue 7, Autumn 2010
- "Details," Atlanta Review, Volume XVII, No. 1,
Fall/Winter 2010
- "A Fabric Album," Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume XI,
Number 2, Fall/Winter 2010/2011
- "Inside the Suits," Main Street Rag, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2010; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 18, 2010
- "It's a Small World," Main Street Rag, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2010
- "Christmas News," Ship of Fools #64, Winter 2010
- "All the Weird Men" and "Becoming Human," both in
5 AM, issue #30
- "Love Songs of Elephants," Ship of Fools #63, Winter 2009
- "Christmas Cards," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5 December 2009
- "Master of Chocolate," Atlanta Review, Volume XVI, No. 1,
Fall/Winter 2009
- "Fossil Light," Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume X,
Number 2, Fall/Winter 2009/2010
- "Laryngitis," Main Street Rag, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2009;
reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4 July 2009
- "Conscripts," Main Street Rag, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2009
- "Property Values," Mad Poets Review, Volume 22
- "The Third Man," Paper Street, October 2008
- "Mall-Fever," Atlanta Review, Volume XIV,
Number 2, Spring/Summer 2008;
reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 December 2008
- "Halfway House," Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume IX,
Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008
- "Prayer," The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Winter 2008
- "Mute," Ship of Fools #62, Winter 2007/2008
- "Household Appliances: Iron," Ship of Fools #62, Winter 2007/2008
- "Green Things," Mad Poets Review, Volume 21
- "Cleaning Woman," Main Street Rag, Volume 13, Number 1,
Winter 2007/2008
- "To Mary," Concho River Review, Volume XXI, Number 1, Spring 2007
- "Last Words," Rosebud #38, Spring 2007
- "Bequests from a Bachelor," Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume VIII,
Number 1, Spring/Summer 2007
- "Consequences of the Speed of Gravitation," Cider Press Review,
Volume 8
- "Borrowed Minute," Main Street Rag, Volume 11, Number 4,
Winter 2006/2007
- "Call," Main Street Rag, Volume 11, Number 4,
Winter 2006/2007
- "Homewood Cemetery," Ship of Fools, Number 59, Spring 2006
- "Household Appliances: In the Basement," Ship of Fools, Number 58,
Winter 2006
- "Silk Road," America, December 5, 2005
- "Twenty-First Century Woman," Concho River Review, Volume XIX,
Number 2, Fall 2005
- "Fundamentals," The 2005 Chaffin Journal
- "Future Poetry," On Spec, Fall 2005
- "Screwups," Main Street Rag, Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2005
- "Relativity," Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume VI, Number 2,
Fall/Winter 2005/2006
- "These Two Things," White Pelican Review, Vol. 6 No. 2, Fall 2005
- "Remnants," Main Street Rag, Volume 10, Number 2,
Summer 2005
- "Island Voices," Ship of Fools, Number 56, Spring 2005
- "Office Rainbow," Ship of Fools, Number 56, Spring 2005
- "Humidity," Ship of Fools, Number 56, Spring 2005
- "I Will Not," Ship of Fools, Number 55, Winter 2005
- "Naturalization Oath Ceremony, March 21, 2003,"
St. Anthony Messenger, Volume 112, Number 10, March 2005
- "Divorce in Faery," Star*Line #28.1, January/February 2005
- "Imperial History," Axe Factory Review #18, Fall 2004
- "The Last Time," Axe Factory Review #18, Fall 2004
- "To a Raspberry Plant, Deceased," Ship of Fools, #54, Winter 2004
- "After the Party," Ship of Fools, #54, Winter 2004
- "After Nineteen Years Together," The Funny Paper #74, July 2004
- "Ode to a Dishwasher," Ship of Fools, Number 53, Fall 2004
- "Desiderata," Ship of Fools, Number 53, Fall 2004
- "The Last Family," Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #35,
Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
- "Generation Ship," Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #35,
Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
- "Cancel My Return Ticket," Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine
#35, Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
- "Just One," Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #35,
Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
- "Children's Classic," Open Cut, an Iodine Summer Broadside, 2004
- "Climber," Capper's, 27 April 2004
- "Obsessive," Ship of Fools, Number 52, Spring 2004
- "Life Without Makeup," Main Street Rag, Volume 9, Number 1,
Spring 2004
- "After Cleaning Windows," Main Street Rag, Volume 9, Number 1,
Spring 2004
- "China: Ancient Technology Exhibition," American Scholar,
Spring 2004, Vol. 73, No. 2
- "Couple," Trained Monkey Press Broadside #22, March 2004
- "Dating Rules," Trained Monkey Press Broadside #22, March 2004
- "Signs and Portents," Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume V, Number 1,
Spring/Summer 2004
- "In Between," Pif Magazine, February 2004
- "Guarantees," Pif Magazine, February 2004
- "First Impact," The Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
- "Art Will Be Appreciated," The Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
- "By the Numbers," The Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
- "Drawback of Life Extension," The Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
- "On Lying," Ship of Fools, Number 51, Fall 2003
- "On Leaving," St. Anthony Messenger, Volume 111, Number 6,
November 2003; reprinted in Mad Poets Review, Volume 19, 2005
- "A Child's Seasons," Blind Man's Rainbow, Volume 9, Issue 1,
Autumn 2003
- "Three," Blind Man's Rainbow, Volume 9, Issue 1, Autumn 2003
- "Distant Relationships," Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
- "Once and Now," Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
- "The House of Pittsburgh," Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
- "Overlooked," Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
- "Nowhere Town," Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
- "Truck Stop," Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
- "Flame War," Mythic Delirium #9, Summer/Fall 2003
- "Our Mother," The Funny Paper #70, September 2003;
reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 May 2004
- "Sustenance," Red Owl #17, Autumn 2003
- "If They Come," Fantastic #24, Summer 2003
- "To the Whales," Space and Time #97, Spring 2003
- "Backwards," Star*Line #25.6, November/December 2002
- "Experiment Eighty-Two," The Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
volume 5 #4, Autumn 2002
- "The Travelers," The Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
volume 5 #4, Autumn 2002
- "Soliloquy of a Nanotech Souffle,"
Mobius, Volume 17, Number 2, Fall and Winter 2002
- "Rush Hour,"
Mobius, Volume 17, Number 2, Fall and Winter 2002
- "Insignificant Others,"
2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, 2001;
reprinted in The 2002 Rhysling Anthology, June 2002;
reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7 June 2003
- "Trees," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 25 August 2001
- "Silicon Bird," Talebones #21, Spring 2001
- "Fall Clearance," The Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
volume 5 #1, Spring 2001
- "Every Other Day of the Year," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
11 November 2000; reprinted in The 2001 Rhysling Anthology, April 2001;
reprinted in 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, 2001;
reprinted in SF Site, February 2002
- "Shen's Daughter" (Sword and Sorceress XX) was reprinted
in The Year's Best Fantasy #4, edited by David Hartwell
and Kathryn Cramer, July 2004
- "New World" (Interzone, February 2002) received an
Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Science Fiction #20,
edited by Gardner Dozois.
- "Homecoming" (Winter Shadows and Other Tales, November 2001)
was reprinted in the The Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown
SF and Fantasy of 2001.
- "City of Mercy" (Winter Shadows and Other Tales, November
2001) received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy
& Horror #15, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
- "The Winter of the Rats" (Winter Shadows and Other Tales,
November 2001) received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best
Fantasy & Horror #15, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling.
- "The Fall of the Kingdom" (Sword and Sorceress XVIII,
May 2001) received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best
Fantasy & Horror #15, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling.
- "Crew-Dog" (Spectrum SF #7, November 2001) received an
Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Science Fiction #19,
edited by Gardner Dozois.
- "Insignificant Others" (poem,
2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology) was nominated for the
2001 Rhysling Award.
- "PauseTime" (Spectrum SF #4, November 2000) appeared on
Locus's Recommended Short Stories list for 2000, and received an
Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Science Fiction #18,
edited by Gardner Dozois.
- "Every Other Day of the Year" (poem, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
11/11/2000) was nominated for the 2000 Rhysling Award.
- "Lifework" (Interzone #144, June 1999) was reprinted
in The Year's Best SF #5 edited by David Hartwell,
and also made Locus's Recommended Short Stories list for 1999.
- "Cause and Consequence" (Interzone #136, October 1998):
1st place in the Best of Soft SF contest for 1998.
- "The Day Before They Came" (Interzone #133, July 1998)
was reprinted in The Year's Best SF #4 edited by David Hartwell,
made the shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association
Awards, and received an Honorable Mention in the
Year's Best Science Fiction #16, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- "Heron" (TransVersions #8/9) received an Honorable Mention
in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #12.
- "Roadside Stop" (Pirate Writings #15) received an Honorable Mention
in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #12.
- "The Three Kingdoms" (Talebones #12) received an Honorable Mention
in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #12.
- "Monstrosity" (F&SF, August 1997) was on the
1998 Nebula preliminary
ballot.
- "Universal Grammar (F&SF, April 1997) was a finalist for the
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award; it also qualified for the
1997 preliminary Nebula ballot, and received an Honorable Mention
in the Year's Best Science Fiction #15, edited by Gardner
Dozois.
- "Ebb Tide" (F&SF, May 1995), received an Honorable Mention
in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #9, and qualified for
the 1996 preliminary Nebula ballot.
- "Mail-A-Day" (Pirate Writings #9): 3rd place in the Best of
Soft SF contest for 1996.
- "To Have And To Hold": 2nd place in the Best of
Soft SF contest for 1995.
I have work forthcoming in:-
- Green Hills Literary Lantern
- a Japanese anthology published by Hayakawa Publishing
Last updated September 2012 by Mary Soon Lee