"Perhaps beneath the satire, the psychology, and the intrigue this is actually a spiritual meditation along the lines of 'God hates us, and there is nothing good left in the world.' In the last few pages, as if all this weren't quite enough for a short story, it turns into an hong-kong action story, or perhaps a particularly violent episode of Buffy."   -- Bluejack.

The Alien Online comments.

Revolution SF in July, 2003
Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003
Lone Star Stories in April, 2004

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004.

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004.

May, 2003 at Ideomancer.
Summer, 2002 in Roadworks.
"The Courtesy of Guests" got the cover art in Roadworks as well!
Also reprinted in Romanian in Antares.
Also reprinted in Greek in The Dramatourges of the Yann.
Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003.

First prize in the Best of Soft Science Fiction 2001 Contest

"...marvelous: stylish, sustained, an impish tour de force."   -- Nick Gevers writing in Locus

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004.

Spring, 2003 at ibodi

Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003.

Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2002, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

• "Esperance"
• "Placer"

• Beer of the Damned
• Champy's Monster Bitter
• Keel's Mothman Lager
• Mandrill's Ass Red
• Old Ghengis Two-Steppe
• Stinkpot's Private Reserve

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004
Mammoth Best New Horror from PUBLISHER in 2004

"'The Goat Cutter' is one of Jay Lake's most striking stories: wildly inventive, complex, and infused with the power to lead me through an uncomfortable journey I will not easily forget."
  -- Leslie What.

This story is a finalist for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novelette!
Read it for free at Fictionwise.com
This story took 1st place in the Writers of the Future contest quarter ending 9/31/2002

"The clear winner, however, is Jay Lake's 'Into the Gardens of Sweet Night,' a quirky meditation on personal freedom and responsibility that follows a cosmos-trotting pug named Wiggles as it leads a young boy on a surreal journey to the supposedly mythical Garden of the title; think William Burroughs meets Men in Black."  -- Publisher's Weekly 9/22/03

Upcoming in 2005 in Swedish translation in Minautauren.

Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003.
Midnight Street, issue TBA

Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction, 2002, ed. Gardner Dozois
Made several 2002 recommended reading lists in Locus and elsewhere

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004

Summer, 2003 in Roadworks
June, 2003 at Ideomancer, an online fiction magazine
Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003

Dogs in the Moonlight forthcoming from Prime Books in 2004

"It's the kind of story you'd get from the love child of Gertrude Stein and Frank Zappa."
    -- Matthew Cheney at "The Mumpsimus"

• "One Is All Alone" -- January, 2003
• "Dressed All in Green-Oh" -- February, 2003
• "Three the Rivals" -- March, 2003
• "Gospel Truth" -- April, 2003
• "The Symbols at Their Doors" -- May, 2003
• "Proud Walkers" -- June, 2003
• "Stars in the Sky" -- July, 2003
• "Aprill, With His Shoures Soote" -- August, 2003
• "Brightly Shining" -- September, 2003
• "Deka Logos" -- October, 2003
• "Eleven Went to Heaven" -- November, 2003
• "For the Twelve" -- December, 2003

Illustrated chapbook from Fairwood Press, April, 2004

Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003.

Made several 2002 recommended reading lists in Locus and elsewhere.

Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003.

Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2003, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Greetings from Lake Wu from Wheatland Press, October, 2003.

"'Watch the Pretty Girls, Kid' likewise has past compulsions re-emerging in later years to an effect sinister and farcical."
  -- Nick Gevers writing in Locus

"...an interesting story with absolutely no socially redeeming qualities, and it's a great example of what good fiction is all about."
  -- Steve Sawicki writing in Chronicle