Mary Soon Lee: Bibliography

Books

• "Ebb Tides and Other Tales", science fiction collection, Dark Regions Press, July 2002, ISBN 1-888993-31-6
• "Winter Shadows and Other Tales", fantasy collection, Dark Regions Press, November 2001, ISBN 1-888993-23-5

Stories published in major markets

• "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.

Stories published in semi-pro and small press markets

• "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

Poems

• "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

Awards, Contests

• "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.
  

Forthcoming work

• Green Hills Literary Lantern
• a Japanese anthology published by Hayakawa Publishing

Last updated September 2012 by Mary Soon Lee