David D. Levine, Science Fiction Writer

I am a science fiction and fantasy writer who's sold over twenty-five short stories so far. I have won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the Writers of the Future Contest, James White Award, and Phobos Fiction Contest, and I have been nominated or shortlisted for the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Aeon Award, an earlier Hugo Award, and the John W. Campbell Award (twice). Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted for me!

My writing journal records my progress or lack thereof. I'm also on LiveJournal (davidlevine).
My first novel, Remembrance Day, is currently under consideration. I am represented by Jack Byrne of the Sternig & Byrne Literary Agency.
You can read some of my short stories online, for free:
- Firewall at Baen Books' WebScription.Net
- Tk'Tk'Tk at Asimov's (Hugo winner)
- I Hold My Father's Paws at Infinity Plus
- At the 25th Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco's Homebrew Gravitics Club at Infinity Plus
- Fear of Widths at Infinity Plus
You can buy several of my other short stories as e-books from Fictionwise.com, in a variety of formats, for less than a buck each.
Several other stories are available as e-books at the Sony eBook store (for the Sony eBook Reader or free eBook Library software on your PC) for a mere 50 cents each.
I am available for speaking engagements.
You can hear an interview with me (10MB MP3 file) on the Sci-Phi Show podcast.
Here's an article about me from the Hollywood Star, a Portland neighborhood paper (201K JPG image).
I attended Clarion West in the summer of 2000. See my Clarion journal for details.
My journal and photos from the 2002 Writers of the Future event are also available.

If you'd like to chat, feel free to e-mail me. Or you can post a comment on my LiveJournal.

Latest News

5/1/08: I did not win the Nebula, but "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" will appear in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2009.
4/22/08: I will have a reading and signing of my collection Space Magic at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing on May 14, 2008 at 7pm. I hope to see you there!
4/7/08: I have been accepted into the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop! This is a NASA-funded "crash course" in modern astronomy for SF writers. Other attendees include Alma Alexander, Steven Gould, Deanna Hoak, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, David Marusek, and Laura Mixon. Also, I will have a signing of my collection Space Magic at Panther Bookstore in Milwaukee in May 20, right before Wiscon. Local boy makes good!
2/22/08: "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" is on the Final Nebula Ballot!
2/14/08: Three of my stories are now available for purchase at the Sony eBook store (for the Sony eBook Reader or free eBook Library software on your PC -- not Mac, alas).
2/6/08: Artist and writer Darin Bradley has posted the cover design for Space Magic, which I have been aching to show you ever since I first saw it. Is it not gorgeous?
2/2/08: Baen Books is currently offering my story "Firewall" as a free sample chapter from the anthology Transhuman. Also, my short story collection Space Magic is now listed on Wheatland Press's home page, there will be a signed and numbered limited-edition hardcover available exclusively from Wrigley-Cross Books, and I have seen a preliminary cover design which is Totally Made Of Awesome. A special pre-publication edition of Space Magic will be available at RadCon, at which I am Short Story Guest of Honor, and the real thing will be released in time for WisCon.
1/24/08: I have been accepted to the Taos Toolbox Writers' Workshop! This two-week workshop (in Taos, New Mexico in June), taught by Walter Jon Williams and Kelly Link with special guest lecturer Stephen R. Donaldson, is a "graduate-level" workshop for writers who have already been to Clarion or Odyssey and/or have made some short fiction sales, and has an emphasis on the craft of the novel. It should be a lot of fun. (If you're interested, and have two weeks and $2800 to spare, applications are still being accepted.)
12/8/07: I sold a collection of short stories (14 reprints and one original), tentatively titled Space Magic, to Wheatland Press. I also sold novelette "The True Story of Merganther's Run" to Aeon Speculative Fiction. Issue 12 of Aeon, including my story "Moonlight on the Carpet," is available now. And "I Hold My Father's Paws" got an Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, while "Primates" and "The Last McDougal's" got Honorable Mentions in Year's Best Science Fiction.
10/7/07: I sold reprint rights for "Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely" to The Mammoth Book Of Extreme Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley.
7/10/07: The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois (who is, I'm told, recovering nicely from a quintuple bypass), has its official release today and has already been reviewed at sfrevu.com. I haven't seen a copy yet. This anthology is my first Dozois Year's Best appearance, with "I Hold My Father's Paws". Coincidentally, that same story was just this weekend podcast at Beam Me Up from WRFR radio in Rockland, Maine. The reading, by Ron Huber, begins about halfway into the show. Hope you like it!
5/22/07: I sold story "Moonlight on the Carpet" to Aeon Speculative Fiction.
3/15/07: Illustrator Rachel Stoleru posted a cute picture inspired by "Titanium Mike"; "Tk'Tk'Tk" was translated into Hebrew in the webzine Bli-Panika; "Titanium Mike" is also being translated into Hebrew, in the print magazine The Tenth Dimension; and "Tk'Tk'Tk" will be translated into Romanian, in the fan-produced (but very slick-looking!) magazine Helion.
3/4/07: "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" has been reviewed in SFRevu ("a great little piece") and Tangent Online ("an entertaining and engaging work").
2/28/07: There's an interview with me on the Sci-Phi Show podcast (http://thesciphishow.com/). You can find it at http://thesciphishow.com/audio/tspsoc29.mp3. It sounds really good!
2/27/07: The first issue of the new online SF magazine Darker Matter is now available, with my story "Babel Probe". I also received my author copy of the Spring 2007 issue of Robot, with the Italian translation of "Tk'Tk'Tk."
2/19/07: I received my author copies of the April 2007 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, with "Titanium Mike Saves the Day;" the March 2007 issue of Portti Science Fiction, with the Finnish translation of "Tk'Tk'Tk;" and the February 2007 issue of the Czech edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction, with the Czech translation of "Tale of the Golden Eagle."
2/2/07: I sold science fiction story "Babel Probe" to the brand new online science fiction magazine Darker Matter. It'll be in the first issue, which is scheduled for March 1.
1/9/07: "Tk'Tk'Tk" will be translated into Hebrew in Israeli webzine Bli-Panika (Don't Panic).
12/30/06: My Aeon Award shortlisted story "I Hold My Father's Paws" will be reprinted in Gardner Dozois's 24th annual Year's Best Science Fiction anthology.
12/26/06: I just received my author copies of the November issue of Nowa Fantastyka, which includes the Polish translation of "Tk'Tk'Tk" with four great interior illustrations.
10/29/06: I sold another story! "Firewall" will appear in Transhuman: On the edge of the Singularity, edited by Toni Weisskopf and Mark Van Name, coming from Baen some time next year.
10/3/06: I have been invited to be a speaker at A Writer's Weekend, June 30-July 1, 2007 in Seattle. I've never been to one of these before, but I'm looking forward to it.
8/31/06: In the wake of its Hugo win, I have sold foreign rights to "Tk'Tk'Tk" to Nowa Fantastyka (Poland), Robot (Italy), Ikarie (Czechoslovakia), and Portti (Finland).
8/27/06: "Tk'Tk'Tk" has won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story!! You can still read it on the Asimov's web site or listen to the MP3 file at Escape Pod.
8/15/06: An excerpt from "Primates" has been posted at the Asimov's web site.
7/26/06: Four of my stories received Honorable Mentions in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction: "A Book is a Journey," "Circle of Compassion," "The Ecology of Faerie," and "Tk'Tk'Tk."
7/25/06: The September 2006 issue of Asimov's, including my story "Primates," has been reviewed at Tangent Online, SFRevu, IROSF, and BestSF.net.

The table below lists the stories I've sold so far, in order of first appearance (newest first). Click on an underlined story title for background information, reviews, excerpts, and information about where to buy it.

"The True Story of Merganther's Run"
SF novelette Aeon Speculative Fiction, e-zine edited by Marti McKenna and Bridget McKenna
(forthcoming)

"Falling Off the Unicorn" *
Fantasy short story
co-written with Sara Mueller Space Magic, collection of my short fiction
(forthcoming May 2008 from Wheatland Press)

"Firewall"
Science Fiction short story Transhuman: On the edge of the Singularity, anthology edited by Toni Weisskopf and Mark Van Name
(February 2008, Baen)

"Moonlight on the Carpet"
Fantasy short story Aeon Speculative Fiction, e-zine edited by Marti McKenna and Bridget McKenna
(Issue 12, December 2007)

"Babel Probe"
Science Fiction short story Read It Now: Darker Matter, webzine edited by Ben Coppin
(Issue 1, March 2007)

"Titanium Mike Saves the Day"
Science Fiction short story Nominated for the Nebula Award (2007).
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, magazine edited by Gordon Van Gelder
(April 2007)
Hebrew translation: The Tenth Dimension
(Spring 2007)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, anthology edited by Ellen Datlow
(forthcoming)

"Primates"
Science Fiction short story Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams
(September 2006)

"I Hold My Father's Paws" *
Science Fiction short story Shortlisted for the Aeon Award (2005).
Albedo One magazine
(Issue 31)
The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, anthology edited by Gardner Dozois
(July 2007, St. Martin's Griffin)
Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke
(June 2006)

"The Last McDougal's"
Science Fiction short story Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams
(January 2006)

"A Book is a Journey"
Fantasy short story Tales of the Unanticipated, magazine edited by Eric M. Heideman
(Issue 26, November 2005)

"The Curse of Beazoel"
Humorous Fantasy short story All Hell Breaking Loose, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg
(October 2005, DAW)

"The Ecology of Faerie" *
Fantasy short story Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy
(October 2005)

"Circle of Compassion" *
Fantasy short story Gateways, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg
(June 2005, DAW)

"Tk'tk'tk" *
Science Fiction short story Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Listed on the Locus Recommended Reading list.
Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams
(March 2005)
Spanish translation: Asimov Ciencia Ficción, magazine edited by Jesús Rodríguez Beltrán
(July/August 2005)
Polish translation: Nowa Fantastyka, magazine edited by Maciej Makowski (November 2006)
Italian translation: Robot, magazine edited by Silvio Sosio (Issue 50, Spring 2007)
Czech translation: Ikarie, magazine edited by Ivan Adamovic (forthcoming)
Finnish translation: Portti, magazine edited by Raimo Nikkonen (March 2007)
Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth (March 2007)
Romanian translation: Helion (forthcoming)
Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety (for a limited time) at the Asimov's website.
Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Escape Pod.

"Brotherhood" *
Horror/Ghost short story Haunted Holidays, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis
(October 2004, DAW)

"Love in the Balance" *
SF/Fantasy short story All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, anthology edited by David Moles and Jay Lake
(October 2004, Wheatland Press)

"Where is the Line"
Fantasy short story Talebones, magazine edited by Patrick and Honna Swenson
(Issue 28, Summer 2004)

"Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely" *
Fantasy short story Listed on the Locus Recommended Reading list.
Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy
(June 2004)
Year's Best Fantasy #5, anthology edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
(July 2005, Harper Eos)
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, anthology edited by Mike Ashley
(June 2008, Robinson Books (UK) and Running Press (US))
Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.

"At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco's Homebrew Gravitics Club" *
Science Fiction short story OryCon 25 Souvenir Book, edited by John C. Bunnell
(November 2003, OSFCI)
Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke
(May 2005)

"Ukaliq and the Great Hunt"
Science Fiction short story Winner in the second annual Phobos Fiction Contest (2002)
Hitting The Skids In Pixeltown, anthology edited by Orson Scott Card
(September 2003, Phobos Entertainment)

"Legacy"
Science Fiction short story Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, anthology edited by Patrick Swenson and Robert Kruger
(August 2003, Fairwood Press and electricstory.com)

"The Tale of the Golden Eagle" *
Science Fiction fairy tale Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Fourth Place in the Locus Awards. Listed on the 2003 Preliminary Nebula Ballot, Locus Recommended Reading list, and Rich Horton's "Virtual Best of the Year"
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, magazine edited by Gordon Van Gelder
(June 2003)
Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth
(December 2003)
Science Fiction: The Best of 2003, anthology edited by Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan
(March 2004, Pocket Books and iBooks)
Swedish translation: Nova Science Fiction, magazine edited by John-Henri Holmberg
(Issue 7/8, August 2006)
Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.

"Fear of Widths" *
Magic Realist short story Land/Space, anthology edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Judy McCrosky
(February 2003, Tesseract Books)
Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke
(July 2003)

"Zauberschrift" *
Fantasy short story Apprentice Fantastic, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis
(November 2002, DAW)
Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.

"Written on the Wind"
Science Fiction short story Beyond the Last Star, anthology edited by Sherwood Smith
(August 2002, SFF Net Books)
Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.

"Rewind" *
Science Fiction short story Second Place winner in the Writers of the Future contest for the second quarter of 2001
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XVIII
(August 2002, Galaxy Press)
Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.

"Nucleon" *
SF/Fantasy short story Winner of the James White Award for 2001
Interzone, magazine edited by David Pringle
(Issue 174, December 2001)
Year's Best Fantasy #2, anthology edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
(July 2002, Harper Eos)
New Voices in Science Fiction, anthology edited by Mike Resnick
(December 2003, DAW)
Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth
(May 2006)

"Wind from a Dying Star" *
Science Fiction short story Bones of the World, anthology edited by Bruce Holland Rogers
(August 2001, SFF Net Books)
Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.

* Included in my collection Space Magic, forthcoming from Wheatland Press.

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"The True Story of Merganther's Run" SF novelette	Aeon Speculative Fiction, e-zine edited by Marti McKenna and Bridget McKenna (forthcoming)
"Falling Off the Unicorn" * Fantasy short story co-written with Sara Mueller	Space Magic, collection of my short fiction (forthcoming May 2008 from Wheatland Press)
"Firewall" Science Fiction short story	Transhuman: On the edge of the Singularity, anthology edited by Toni Weisskopf and Mark Van Name (February 2008, Baen)
"Moonlight on the Carpet" Fantasy short story	Aeon Speculative Fiction, e-zine edited by Marti McKenna and Bridget McKenna (Issue 12, December 2007)
"Babel Probe" Science Fiction short story	Read It Now: Darker Matter, webzine edited by Ben Coppin (Issue 1, March 2007)
"Titanium Mike Saves the Day" Science Fiction short story	Nominated for the Nebula Award (2007). The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, magazine edited by Gordon Van Gelder (April 2007) Hebrew translation: The Tenth Dimension (Spring 2007) Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, anthology edited by Ellen Datlow (forthcoming)
"Primates" Science Fiction short story	Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams (September 2006)
"I Hold My Father's Paws" * Science Fiction short story	Shortlisted for the Aeon Award (2005). Albedo One magazine (Issue 31) The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, anthology edited by Gardner Dozois (July 2007, St. Martin's Griffin) Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke (June 2006)
"The Last McDougal's" Science Fiction short story	Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams (January 2006)
"A Book is a Journey" Fantasy short story	Tales of the Unanticipated, magazine edited by Eric M. Heideman (Issue 26, November 2005)
"The Curse of Beazoel" Humorous Fantasy short story	All Hell Breaking Loose, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg (October 2005, DAW)
"The Ecology of Faerie" * Fantasy short story	Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy (October 2005)
"Circle of Compassion" * Fantasy short story	Gateways, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg (June 2005, DAW)
"Tk'tk'tk" * Science Fiction short story	Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Listed on the Locus Recommended Reading list. Asimov's Science Fiction, magazine edited by Sheila Williams (March 2005) Spanish translation: Asimov Ciencia Ficción, magazine edited by Jesús Rodríguez Beltrán (July/August 2005) Polish translation: Nowa Fantastyka, magazine edited by Maciej Makowski (November 2006) Italian translation: Robot, magazine edited by Silvio Sosio (Issue 50, Spring 2007) Czech translation: Ikarie, magazine edited by Ivan Adamovic (forthcoming) Finnish translation: Portti, magazine edited by Raimo Nikkonen (March 2007) Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth (March 2007) Romanian translation: Helion (forthcoming) Read It Now: This story can be read in its entirety (for a limited time) at the Asimov's website. Hear It Now: This story is available as an MP3 file at Escape Pod.
"Brotherhood" * Horror/Ghost short story	Haunted Holidays, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis (October 2004, DAW)
"Love in the Balance" * SF/Fantasy short story	All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, anthology edited by David Moles and Jay Lake (October 2004, Wheatland Press)
"Where is the Line" Fantasy short story	Talebones, magazine edited by Patrick and Honna Swenson (Issue 28, Summer 2004)
"Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely" * Fantasy short story	Listed on the Locus Recommended Reading list. Realms of Fantasy, magazine edited by Shawna McCarthy (June 2004) Year's Best Fantasy #5, anthology edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (July 2005, Harper Eos) The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, anthology edited by Mike Ashley (June 2008, Robinson Books (UK) and Running Press (US)) Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.
"At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco's Homebrew Gravitics Club" * Science Fiction short story	OryCon 25 Souvenir Book, edited by John C. Bunnell (November 2003, OSFCI) Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke (May 2005)
"Ukaliq and the Great Hunt" Science Fiction short story	Winner in the second annual Phobos Fiction Contest (2002) Hitting The Skids In Pixeltown, anthology edited by Orson Scott Card (September 2003, Phobos Entertainment)
"Legacy" Science Fiction short story	Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, anthology edited by Patrick Swenson and Robert Kruger (August 2003, Fairwood Press and electricstory.com)
"The Tale of the Golden Eagle" * Science Fiction fairy tale	Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Fourth Place in the Locus Awards. Listed on the 2003 Preliminary Nebula Ballot, Locus Recommended Reading list, and Rich Horton's "Virtual Best of the Year" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, magazine edited by Gordon Van Gelder (June 2003) Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth (December 2003) Science Fiction: The Best of 2003, anthology edited by Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan (March 2004, Pocket Books and iBooks) Swedish translation: Nova Science Fiction, magazine edited by John-Henri Holmberg (Issue 7/8, August 2006) Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.
"Fear of Widths" * Magic Realist short story	Land/Space, anthology edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Judy McCrosky (February 2003, Tesseract Books) Read It Now: Infinity Plus, website edited by Keith Brooke (July 2003)
"Zauberschrift" * Fantasy short story	Apprentice Fantastic, anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis (November 2002, DAW) Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.
"Written on the Wind" Science Fiction short story	Beyond the Last Star, anthology edited by Sherwood Smith (August 2002, SFF Net Books) Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.
"Rewind" * Science Fiction short story	Second Place winner in the Writers of the Future contest for the second quarter of 2001 L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XVIII (August 2002, Galaxy Press) Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.
"Nucleon" * SF/Fantasy short story	Winner of the James White Award for 2001 Interzone, magazine edited by David Pringle (Issue 174, December 2001) Year's Best Fantasy #2, anthology edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (July 2002, Harper Eos) New Voices in Science Fiction, anthology edited by Mike Resnick (December 2003, DAW) Hebrew translation: Bli-Panika (Don't Panic), webzine edited by Rami Shalheveth (May 2006)
"Wind from a Dying Star" * Science Fiction short story	Bones of the World, anthology edited by Bruce Holland Rogers (August 2001, SFF Net Books) Read It Now: This story is available as an e-book from Fictionwise.com.