Writing

Novels

The Alchemy Wars Trilogy

Something More Than Night

The Milkweed Triptych

Short(er) Fiction

Stories, Novelettes, & Novellas

  • “The Winnowing Metric” Sunday Morning Transport (Oct. 2024)
  • “The Long, Long Fall of Josiah Eddy” Brave New Worlds anthology (Aug. 2022)
  • “The Owl and the Reptiloid” Sunday Morning Transport (Jul. 2022)
    • Reprinted in The Sunday Morning Transport: Selected Stories 2022 (Aug. 2023)
  • “Hammer and Tongs and a Rusty Nail” Tor.com (Dec. 2020) (a Wild Cards story)
  • “When God Sits in Your Lap” Asimov’s Science Fiction (Sep./Oct. 2020) (a Something More Than Night story)
    • Reprinted in The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5  (Jun. 2021)
    • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition (Aug. 2022)
  • “Come the Revolution” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Mar./Apr. 2020) (an Alchemy Wars tale)
    • Reprinted in The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time (Sep. 2021)
    • Reprinted in The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection (Dec. 2021)
    • Reprinted in Forever Magazine (Dec. 2024)
  • “Deus Ex Machina” Portals anthology (June 2019)
  • “Testimony of Samuel Frobisher Regarding Events Upon His Majesty’s Ship Confidence, 14-22 June, 1818, With Diagrams” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Jul./Aug. 2014)
    • Republished in audio format by PodCastle (Episode 348, Jan. 2015)
    • Reprinted in Best New Horror #26 (2015)
  • “The Cavorite Job” Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs Aliens anthology (2014)
  • “What Doctor Ivanovich Saw” Subterranean Press Magazine (Fall, 2013) (a Milkweed Triptych tale)
  • “The Mainspring of His Heart, the Shackles of His Soul” Human for a Day anthology (Dec. 2011)
  • “Steady Hands and a Heart of Oak”  After Hours: Tales From the Ur-Bar anthology (2011)
  • “Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)” Apex Magazine (Oct. 2010)
    • Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Five (2011)
    • Reprinted in The Best of Apex Magazine and The Book of Apex
  • “What Doctor Gottlieb Saw” Tor.com (June 2010) (a Milkweed Triptych tale)
  • “Come Dancefight, My Beloved Enemy” Trabuco Road (Mar. 2007)
    • Reprinted at Snackreads (Oct. 2013)

Wild Cards

As a member of George R. R. Martin’s shared-universe consortium, I’ve written chunks of five Wild Cards novels to date:

Being a gigantic nerd, I took it upon myself to develop a physical/mathematical model for Wild Cards viral expression… and then I turned that work into an honest-to-god peer-reviewed physics paper:

Ergodic Lagrangian Dynamics in a Superhero Universe, by I. L. Tregillis & George R. R. Martin, will appear in the American Journal of Physics in early 2025.

I’ve put together a whimsical (math-light, meme-heavy) hour-long presentation that takes a lay-audience through the development of this model, from first principles to the final result. To date I’ve presented “The Math (& Physics) of Wild Cards” to the Albuquerque Science Fiction Society (November, 2023) and at Bubonicon 55 (August, 2024). People seem to enjoy it quite a bit.

Realm (formerly Serial Box Publishing)

I was a proud member of the “writer’s room” for both seasons of the occult spy-fi thriller The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, a project from Serial Box Publishing (now Realm). I wrote the ColdWitch episodes

  • The Golem (S01, E05)
  • Radio Free Trismegistus (S01, E07)
  • King’s Gambit Accepted (S01, E11)
  • Old Game, New Players (S02, E03)
  • Aftermath (S02, E09)
  • We All Fall Down (S02, E13)

ColdWitch S01 was also published in novel format by Saga Press.

Lectures & Workshops

Miscellany

  • Introduction to the Fantasy Masterworks edition of Tim Powers’s Earthquake Weather (Gollancz, 2015)
  • Dispatches from the Future (Popular Science, June 2014)
  • Today’s Best Science Fiction Writers Imagine the Future (Popular Science, June 2013)
  • Perry Rodent and the Great Shoe Warehouse of Ophiuchus Zeta (written for the Bubonicon 42 Program Book, August 2010)