Author Archives: Alyx Dellamonica

About Alyx Dellamonica

Alyx Dellamonica lives in Toronto, Ontario, with their wife, author Kelly Robson. They write fiction, poetry, and sometimes plays, both as A.M. Dellamonica and L.X. Beckett. A long-time creative writing teacher and coach, they now work at the UofT writing science articles and other content for the Department of Chemistry. They identify as queer, nonbinary, autistic, Nerdfighter, and BTS Army.

Short fiction!

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I have over fifty short stories in print, and many of them can be found at my Curious Fictions page, which contains reprints of stories of mine from various print anthologies. Stories are posted for free, and if you like them, CF makes it easy to tip. You can also set up a monthly subscription so you’ll be notified when I post new stories.

Tor Singles (free online and available for ereaders!)

The wonderful team at Tor.com has published several of my stories, giving them beautiful covers and making them available for free at their site as well as publishing them in various ebook format. Check out these beautiful covers:

  • “Losing Heart Among the Tall,” by A.M. Dellamonica, 2017, Tor.com
  • art by Richard Anderson for Tor.com
  • illustration by Allen Williams
    Wild Things
  • Among the Silvering Herd
  • The Color of Paradox

Fine, they’re gorgeous, but where are they?

“Among the Silvering Herd” – Free at Tor.com! Ebook from MacMillan Books, for Kindle, or via iTunes. “Among the Silvering Herd” is also available for Nook and Kobo.

“The Ugly Woman of Castello di Putti” – Tor.com! Or: Kindle single, iTunes, Nook , Kobo.

“The Glass Galago” – Read it here at Tor.com!

“Losing Heart among the Tall” – Read it now at Tor.com!

“The Color of Paradox” – Tor.com. Kindle, iTunes, Nook and Kobo.

“Wild Things” – Tor.com (free!) MacMillan Books, Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Nook.

“The Cage” – Tor.com, Kindle, iTunes, Kobo, or Nook.

Most of the other things I have to offer you online are straight-up science fiction

The Proxy War (otherwise known as Squid Stories)

  • The Sweet Spot is the earliest of my Proxy War series. A teenaged girl named Ruth Gerrickle and her brother Matt try to survive the Battle of Kauai. (Lightspeed Magazine).
  • Five Good Things about Meghan Sheedy. Same universe, different battle . . . this time, it’s the Siege of Seattle. (Strange Horizons).
  • “The Town on Blighted Sea.” The Proxy War is over, and Ruthless Gerrickle’s side emphatically did not win. But life, strangely enough, goes on. (Strange Horizons).

“A Slow Day at the Gallery,” recently reprinted in Forever Magazine Issue 8, is a piece on imperialism, terrorism, and the way “in a good cause” and “pointlessly destructive” are mutually exclusive concepts.

All about the Gottacon…

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On February 1st and 2nd I was Guest of Honor at Gottacon, where I met many lovely and charming fans:

GottaCon

Gottacon is very gaming focused, with a single track of panel programming. I was on two panels: So You Want to Become a Published Author with Matt Hughes, Dave Duncan and T.J. Silver and Digital Rights Management: The Pros and Cons, with Wired author Jules Sherred and Karl Johanson. Both panels were expertly moderated by Sherred, who interviewed me for Geeky Pleasures last year when Blue Magic came out, and who has posted them on the same site.)

As we were talking writing and publishing, war raged on next door.

GottaCon

Getting invited to be a guest of honor had been on my career-related bucket list for a while. Getting to do it for the first time in Victoria, a city I love, was a delightful extra bonus. The organizers and fans were all very lovely and inviting, and the day was full of nice surprises. If you’re in the vicinity next year might enjoy playing games all day with like-minded spirits, I can’t recommend it enough.

And if you missed me, my next appearance will be at FanExpo Vancouver on April 21 and 22.

Catworld Revision Project #7 – While You Were Sleeping

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Don’t get me wrong. I looove While You Were Sleeping. We saw it four or six times in the theater, during an incredibly broke spring while we were saving so I could go to Clarion West. But while catkind is included in this movie, they are something of an afterthought, and our feline overlords consider this to be, frankly, more insulting than if they had been excluded entirely.

Here’s the preview, wherein Sandra Bullock talks about going home to a cat as though it’s not enough:

Note, too, that Fluffy is left alone in the home of a coma patient who isn’t even their primary underbeing, for well over a week!

Thistle says: Shape Up, Humans!
Photos of Mouse and Thistle

Obviously the unnamed cat (unnamed!!) in Sandra Bullock’s apartment and Fluffy both need star billing in this picture. A good start might be to have Bill Pullman’s character take Fluffy home to his mancave. Both romantic leads should have the cats with them in subsequent scenes, except possibly the one where they get to falling down on ice. Pullman should probably live in Sandra’s building so that Fluffy only has to endure one car ride. Maybe instead of building chairs he should construct cat trees.

Alternately, Joe Junior could take on Fluffy, in which case the romantic outcome for the humans may have to change a bit. Your script treatments and suggested edits can be submitted here.