Derwin Mak -- Bibliography

Bibliography

Fiction:

Novels:

The Moon Under Her Feet. New edition from Weird and Wondrous Books, pointe-Claire, Quebec, 2011. Finalist for the 2008 Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English. Get it at Amazon.

The Shrine of the Siren Stone. New edition from Weird and Wondrous Books, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, 2010. Get it at Amazon Read sample excerpts here in html or in pdf.

Short Fiction:

"All Dancers Go to Heaven", novella published as a chapbook, The Shallow End of Infinity (Oortworks Corporation), Toronto, Ontario, 2000. Novella about attempts to communicate with a dead ballerina by saving her brainwaves. First chapbook published by the small press Oortworks Corporation.

"Luck of the Irish", The Ultimate Unknown, issue 21 (spring 2001), Streamwood, Illinois. Humorous story about a Titanic passenger who gets frozen in a block of ice and found by a German U-boat years later. Read it online (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

"The Snow Aliens" in Tales From the Wonder Zone: Explorer, edited by Julie Czerneda, Trifolium Books Inc., Toronto, Ontario, 2002. Two tiny aliens get lost in the snow, and the Canadian army must rescue them. (Book tour photos)

"It Came to Eat Our Chicken Wings", RicePaper, winter (Dec.) 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia. RicePaper, the nationally acclaimed magazine of Asian Canadian arts and culture, commissioned this story for its Technology issue. A story about a Hooters Girl, a car show, and an alien. Read it online (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

"The Siren Stone", in Space Inc., edited by Julie Czerneda, DAW Books, 2003. A crew sent to destroy an asteroid finds dead relatives and friends living there. Finalist for the 2004 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English.

"Transubstantiation" , in Northwest Passages: a Cascadian Anthology, edited by Cris DiMarco, Windstorm Creative, Port Orchard, Washington, 2005. Jesus returns as a teenaged girl at a space station orbiting Mars. Winner of the 2006 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English.

"Seventy-two Virgins", in Thou Shalt Not..., edited by Lee Allan Howard, Dark Cloud Press, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, 2006. Dark humour about an incompetent suicide bomber. Order your copy of Thou Shalt Not... at http://www.darkcloudpress.com/index_main.htm

"Family Tradition", in the vampire fiction magazine Night to Dawn, issue 17, March 2010. The ghost of Abraham van Helsing pesters his great-great-great-granddaughter, a Hooters Girl who doesn't want to take up vampire hunting. then a mysterious Romanian arrives at the local Hooters...Get it from Night to Dawn or read it here as pdf file or here as html.

"The Polar Bear Carries the Mail", in The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, DAW Books, 2010. A Chinese Canadian test pilot and a Chinese spaceflight company find bad feng shui at their spaceport in Churchill, Manitoba. The Dragon and the Stars is the first anthology of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternative history written by ethnic Chinese outside China. Get it at Amazon.

"Cloned to Kill", in Infinite Space, Infinite God II, edited by Karina and Robert Fabian, Twilight Times Books, Kingsport, Tennessee, 2010. A teenaged clone rebels against her creator with the help of a former army chaplain. Infinite Space, Infinite God II is the Fabians' second anthology of Roman Catholic-theme science fiction.

"The Shepherd's Blessing" in The Chain Story, developed by Michael Stackpole, 2011. The Cthulhu Mythos and the Salem witch trials come together in Boston, 1702. The Chain Story is an online series of stories involving the Wanderers' Club. Read the story here online.

"Willpower" in Eeriecon Chapbook Ten, Buffalo Fantasy League, Buffalo, New York, 2011. A vampire restaurant waitress tries to get rid of an annoying customer who wants her to bite him.

Editor:

The Dragon and the Stars, co-edited with Eric Choi, DAW Books, 2010. The first anthology of science fiction and fantasy by overseas Chinese authors (authors of Chinese ancestry who live outside China). Winner of the 2011 Aurora Award, Canada's national science fiction award, for Best Related Work in English. Read about it here and here.

Non-fiction:

"Artists Prepare High-Profile Solo Projects", Parsec, Fall 2000, Sudbury, Ontario. About manga artists Tsukasa Kotobuki and Chihiro Hattori.

"Artists Nuture Revolutionary Spirit", Parsec, Winter 2001, Sudbury, Ontario. About Kunihiko Ikuhara and Chiho Saito, creators of Revolutionary Girl Utena.

"New Entries in Lodoss Saga Here", Parsec, Spring/Summer 2001, Sudbury, Ontario. About Ryo Mizuno, creator of Record of the Lodoss Wars.

"The Rarest Hooters of Them All", Realms, June/July 2001, Toronto, Ontario. About the Halle the Hooters Girl comic book.

"Manga Madness", RicePaper, Fall 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia. About how North Americans have adopted Japanese and East Asian anime and pop culture. With photos of Anime North convention by the author.

"Chinese Canadian Science Fiction Writers", Science Fiction World, May 2008, published in Chengdu, China. About writers Eric Choi, Tony Pi, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Elaine Chen, and Derwin Mak. Science Fiction World is China's leading science fiction magazine and is the science fiction magazine with the highest circulation and readership in the world: 300,000 copies and 1 million readers.

"The Norway Tragedy: Influences on Madness", SITREP, journal of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, September-October 2011. My analysis of 2083 - a European Declaration of Independence, the manifesto of Norwegian confessed mass killer Anders Breivik, shows that he was neither a Christian fundamentalist nor a right-wing racist, but rather, a science fiction nerd gone violent. Read it here as html or as a pdf file.

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