Cliff’s Published Works
Short Fiction
forthcoming “Battlesuit”
2019 “Preliminary Field Observations of the Los Gatos Obelisk” in Mad Scientist Journal, Winter 2020 (Dawn Vogel and Jeremy Zimmerman, eds.)
2019 “Not Fade Away” in Straight Outta Deadwood (David Boop, ed.)
2014 “The Laughing Book” in That Ain’t Right: Historical Accounts of the Miskatonic Valley (Dawn Vogel and Jeremy Zimmerman, eds.)
2013 “The Call of the Sky” in When the Hero Comes Home: 2 (Gabrielle Harbowy & Ed Greenwood, eds.)
2012 “Raphael Rising” in the Hadley Rille Books January newsletter (Eric T. Reynolds, ed.)
2011 “The Experiment” in Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Karen A. Romanko, ed.)
2010 “Phobos” in The Aether Age: Helios (Christopher Fletcher and Brandon H. Bell, eds.)
2010 “R101 is Burning” in Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia (Karen A. Romanko, ed.)
2009 “The Celestial Sea” in Footprints (Jay Lake & Eric T. Reynolds, eds.)
2009 “Kraken’s Wake” in Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy (Karen A. Romanko, ed.)
2005 “Black Road’s Lament” in Amberzine #12-15 (Michael Kucharski, ed., w/ Pierre-Alexandre Sicart)
Really Short Fiction
2010 “The Statues” in Thaumatrope twitterzine (N. E. Lilly, ed.) — featured on May 30
2010 “His Halo Faded” in Thaumatrope twitterzine (N. E. Lilly, ed.) — featured on May 7
2010 “Afikomen” in Thaumatrope twitterzine (N. E. Lilly, ed.) — featured on March 29
2010 “Velociraptor” in Thaumatrope twitterzine (N. E. Lilly, ed.) — featured on February 17
2010 “Dinopunks” in Thaumatrope twitterzine (N. E. Lilly, ed.) — featured on January 8
2010 “Shmuel Sighed” in Outshine twitterzine (Jetse de Vries, ed.) — featured on January 2
2009 “The Tooth Fairy” in Thaumatrope twitterzine (N. E. Lilly, ed.) — featured on November 16
2009 “Not a Better Mousetrap” in Outshine twitterzine (Jetse de Vries, ed.) — featured on August 3
Thaumatrope archives Cliff’s stories here.
Awards
2021 Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention, 1st Quarter
2020 Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention, 4th Quarter
2020 Colorado Book Award Nomination, Anthology Category for Straight Outta Deadwood
2020 Writers of the Future Finalist, 1st Quarter
2019 Writers of the Future Finalist, 1st Quarter
2018 Writers of the Future Honorable Mention, 4th Quarter
2012 Writers of the Future Semi-Finalist, 3rd Quarter
2012 Writers of the Future Finalist, 2nd Quarter
2011 Writers of the Future Finalist, 4th Quarter
2010 Writers of the Future Semi-Finalist, 4th Quarter
2010 Writers of the Future Honorable Mention, 3rd Quarter
2010 Writers of the Future Honorable Mention, 2nd Quarter
2010 Writers of the Future Finalist, 1st Quarter
2009 Writers of the Future Semi-Finalist, 4th Quarter
2009 Writers of the Future Honorable Mention, 3rd Quarter
2009 Writers of the Future Honorable Mention, 2nd Quarter
2006 Writers of the Future Quarter-Finalist (now called Honorable Mention), 1st Quarter
Miscellaneous Appearances
2018 Cliff joined the Fanboy Planet podcast to talk about the 2018 Hugo finalists.
2013 Cliff was interviewed at The Writers’ Lens — featured on November 11
2013 Cliff’s June SF in SF reading was podcasted — the reading is here, and the Q&A is here
2011 “Please Call Me, Kreayshawn” on Bizarro Central (co-written with Nick Mamatas, Cameron
Pierce, and Kirsten Alene) — featured on October 28
2010 Haiku quoted in Elise Matthesen’s essay in The WisCon Chronicles: Vol. 4 (Sylvia Kelso, ed.)
2003 NaNoWriMo novel quoted by Helena Echlin in The Times of London — featured on December 13
“Best Of” Appearances
2012 “The Experiment” in Spec-tacular: Fantasy Favorites from Raven Electrick Ink (Karen A.
Romanko, ed.) available as a Kindle eBook here.
Other Reprints
2021 “The Call of the Sky” Escape Pod podcast, Flashback Friday for April, read by Marguerite Kenner
2015 “The Call of the Sky” Escape Pod podcast (Norm Sherman, ed.), read by Marguerite Kenner
2013 “Raphael Rising” in World Jumping (Eric T. Reynolds, ed.)
2013 “The Experiment” in Gears and Levers 3: A Steampunk Anthology (Phyllis Irene Radford, ed.)