Ted Kosmatka

Ted Kosmatka is an American writer. His short fiction has been nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He now works in the videogame industry where he’s a full-time writer at Valve Corporation.^[1]

Kosmatka's work has been reprinted in eight Year's Best anthologies, translated into a dozen languages, and been performed on stage in Indiana and New York. He is co-winner of the 2010 Asimov's Readers' Choice Award.^[2]

Personal life

Kosmatka was born and raised in northwest Indiana and spent more than a decade working in various laboratories there before moving to the Pacific Northwest. He lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest, not far from the water.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Games (2012)
• Prophet of Bones (2013)
• Divining Light (2014)^[3]

Short Literary Fiction

• "Last Exit of Highway 94," Kindred Voices, 2006.
• "Indiana Harbor Jones," Workers' Anthology Audio CD, 2006.
• "Steel," Spirits Magazine.

Short Speculative Fiction

• "Cry Room," Nightmare Magazine, Feb, 2013.
• "The Color Least Used by Nature," F&SF, Jan, 2012.
• "In-fall" Lightspeed Magazine, December, 2010.
• "Escape He Done," Cemetery Dance Magazine, forthcoming.
• "Blood Dauber," Asimov's, a collaboration with Michael Poore, Oct/Nov 2009.
• "Limited Penetrance, Variable Expression," The Human Genre Project, July 2009.
• "The Ascendant," Subterranean Online, Spring 2009.
• "Divining Light," Asimov's, 2008. (Read for free)
• "The Art of Alchemy," Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008.
• "N-words," (story against racism) Seeds of Change, J.J. Adams editor, 2008.
• "The Prophet of Flores," Asimov's, 2007.
• "Deadnauts," Ideomancer, 2007. (Read for Free)
• "Doxology," City Slab, 2007.
• "Bitterseed," Asimov's, 2006.
• "The God Engine," Asimov's, 2005.
• "Quicksilver," Spirits Magazine.
• "The Extinction of Ursus Theodorus," Deep Outside

Essays

• "Philip K. Dick the Shaman," Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #18, Boom Studios, 2010.

External links

• Upcoming4.me Ted Kosmatka Biography and Bibliography
• Story behind Prophet of Bones - A World Where Creationists Were Right, a science thriller
• Ted Kosmatka at the Internet Movie Database

References