This story, and the one that appeared in Asimov’s earlier, are both good examples of this. I think I’m best suited to long-form fantasy epics, but when I do turn my attention to short stories, they almost always come out as classic-style space operas. You who visit the blog frequently may have heard me say that I don’t think much of my short story writing skills. I’m very pleased with how the story turned out. Moshe, my editor, gave it a very strong edit (something it really, really needed.) A few months later, here it is! With an illustration by Donato, no less. Patrick enjoyed the story, and said he might be interested in it if we put it through some editorial work. I’ve long been looking for a place where the story could reach a larger audience (when I was at BYU, The Leading Edge-despite having some very high quality fiction in it-had a distribution of under a hundred copies.) So I sent the story over to Tor.com, asking if they’d consider it even though it had appeared before in a small publication. The magazine asked me if I’d donate a story to one of their anniversary issues, and so I sent them this one, which I’d actually just finished writing.) Though “published” is kind of a loose term here, as the story originally appeared in The Leading Edge, a BYU publication with a very limited print run. As they have noted, this story-called “Firstborn”-was the first sf story I ever published. Tor.com has published one of my short stories.
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