He has been a frequent guest on podcasts and panels, passionately advocating for lived experience queer and disability narratives in stories of the future. His first novel, Chasing Cold, was released in 2012, followed by the books in the Maverick Heart Cycle: Soul’s Blood (2016), Gatecrasher (2017), A Congress of Ships (2019) and in 2022, Ghost Light Burn. Since then, he has concentrated on writing speculative fiction, in particular, queer-themed space opera, and his short fiction has appeared in the anthologies North of Infinity II, Desolate Places, Ruins Metropolis, and the forthcoming Nothing Without Us Too. Who is this guy, anyway? Stephen Graham King (He/They) is a disabled survivor of metastatic synovial sarcoma, a story chronicled in the memoir, Just Breathe: My Journey Through Cancer and Back. Continue reading “Overture (Part Two of Three)” → Posted in My Fiction Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Sentience, Maverick Heart, Sentient spaceship, Space Opera, Spec Fic, Speculative Fiction, Vrick Leave a comment She fought the urge to touch the place where the braid she had grown since childhood no longer lay. The back of her neck itched where her hair had been freshly shorn down to the skin. She felt a tickle of sweat down her back under the starched, formal shirt, but she knew it had nothing to do with the heat. In the distance, the sun dipped low toward the horizon, lighting the sky with the colours of flame. Thankfully, the captain had understood and accommodated her schedule.ĭespite the late hour, the day’s heat still lay heavy over her as she stepped down from the tram onto the landing pad’s apron. As much as she hoped this new ship would be the one, she couldn’t risk missing out on further short term placements if it didn’t work out. She didn’t reach the landing pad until almost dusk, having had to wait at the placement office all day or risk losing her spot in the rota for a new temp assignment.
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