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Alan Smale writes fantasy and horror, alternate and twisted history, urban fantasy and slipstream, with over twenty stories published in speculative fiction magazines and original anthologies. Born and raised in England, he lives in Maryland and works as an astrophysicist and data archive manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In what is humorously referred to as his 'spare time', he sings bass and serves as Business Manager for high-energy vocal band The Chromatics, and performs occasionally in community theater. New Novella Sale I'll be announcing a major novella sale, just as soon as the ink is dry on the contract, Watch this space for details! Most Recent Publications "Fossil Fuels", in Realms of Fantasy, February 2009 issue - story now ONLINE! "Quartet, with Mermaids", online at Abyss and Apex Issue 25: 1st Quarter 2008 Locus says: "The first 2008 issue of Abyss and Apex is a good one: two particularly sharp-edged pieces work best... Alan Smale's "Quartet, with Mermaids" is an only too believable treatment, from multiple viewpoints, of the likely end results of finding a real group of plausible mermaids." "A Trade in Serpents", in Realms of Fantasy, August 2007 issue - story now ONLINE! Honorable Mention in "The Year's Best Science Fiction 25" by Gardner Dozois Locus's Recommended Reading List for 2007 Locus says: "August's Realms of Fantasy is dominated by a quirky and historically impertinent counterfactual by Alan Smale... "A Trade in Serpents" draws on certain rhetorical ramblings that preceded the American Revolutionary War - Benjamin Franklin's famous sentiment that if Britain wanted to export convicts to the Colonies, it should import rattlesnakes in return - to work mischief with the past... soon, dreadfully big and purposeful rattlers are infesting the streets of London... Smale does a fine job of picking out [the inevitability of America's separation from the Empire] amidst the surface details of 18th-century life and thought, and his psychoanalysis of Franklin is intelligent and amusing." Tangent Online says: "Stir it all together with great care and you have a well-crafted suspenseful adventure, definitely worth reading." "Bound", in Horror Library Volume II, edited by R.J. Cavender and Vincent VanAllen, from Cutting Block Press "Wearing the Dead", in the new edition of Twilight Tales' Book of Dead Things, edited by Tina Jens & Eric M. Cherry

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