This is another piece of the Sunspin continuity. It's also a story idea that came to me in the late stages of chemo, when I could barely sign my name, let alone write fiction. So call this a bit of a personal victory on more levels than the usual headrush of selling a story.
Anent the Sunspin shorts, here's a list of them so far, with a little bit of commentary.
| Title | Comments | Publication information |
| "Permanent Fatal Errors" | About 1,200 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Macaria St. Maduabuchi | Is Anybody Out There?, ed. Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern, DAW, June, 2010 |
| "A Long Walk Home" | About 1,100 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Aeschylus Sforza | Subterranean Online, forthcoming |
| "To This Their Late Escape" | About 850 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Skanderia Knaak and the Before Raisa Siddiq | The Sky That Wraps, Subterranean Press, August, 2010 |
| "To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves" | About 700 years before the narrative present; concerns the Before Michaela Cannon, the Before Raisa Siddiq, and the shipmind Polyphemus | The New Space Opera 2, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos, June, 2009 |
| "The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future" | Immediately before the narrative present; concerns the Before Michaela Cannon, Lieutenant Shinka, and the shipmind Third Rectification | To be announced |
| "Torquing Vacuum" | In the narrative present; concerns Domitian Spanich, the Imperial Household, and the shipmind Mare Ibrium | Clarkesworld, February, 2010 |