R.B. Lemberg

Category: birdverse

  • “Cloth….” illustrated (and grief)

    I have mentioned before that I have been very fortunate to work with Renne Chon of Science Fiction World, to get my Nebula-nominated novelette “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” translated into Chinese. I have posted some translation Q & A with Renne Chon on my Patreon as a rare public entry. In November, I received two issues of…

  • Award Eligibility 2016

    This is my customary award eligibility post for the year. I did not have as much short pieces out because I was concentrating on longer work, but I am very proud of what I did publish this year. I have bolded pieces I feel are most deserving of award consideration. Short fiction nominating folks, if you…

  • “Book…” at the Monthly Round

    My Birdverse novelette “The Book of How to Live” made The Monthly Round at Nerds of a Feather: Bracing. Spicy. Lightly bitter. It’s how I would profile a Session IPA, a drink that speaks to me of autumn and the smell of burning leaves. It’s also how I imagine “The Book of How to Live”…

  • A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power

    Friends, this has been a difficult week. Devastating for many of us. I have spoken at length on twitter about my feelings about this election, and will continue to do so there: @roselemberg. I posted on Twitter last night that I am reluctant to announce the sale of my novella — it feels weird to have good…

  • New reviews, and a poem!

    My new Birdverse novelette “The Book of How to Live” has received some positive reviews. The first from Tangent, by reviewer Michelle Ristuccia: Rose Lemberg brings us another moving LGBTQIA fantasy piece set in the Birdverse, the novelette “The Book of How to Live.” Lemberg’s love story follows two strangers who struggle to be accepted in…

  • The Sippys

    Last year I found myself a recipient of a new fan award, The Sippy, bestowed by none other than Charles Payseur, reviewer extraordinaire. My Birdverse novelette “Geometries of Belonging” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies received The Big Sip for excellent relationships in short SFF! This year, in preparation for 2016 Sippys, Charles redesigned the award and…

  • “The Book of How to Live” is live! + some notes

    My new Birdverse novelette, “The Book of How to Live,” is live in Beneath Ceaseless Skies’ 8th Anniversary double issue. Here are some notes about this story: I first became a fan of Mikhail Lomonosov as an eight year old living in Vorkuta, when I read his “Ode to Glass.” I memorized some of his…

  • Two upcoming reprints

    I am very pleased to report that I sold reprint and audio rights to “How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War” (Lightspeed’s Queers Destroy SF) to GlitterShip. This is a story of two interstellar veterans with PTSD, and it the first time this story will be available online in text and audio…

  • BCS Eighth anniversary double issue!

    The Beneath Ceaseless Skies Eighth anniversary double issue is available to purchase early through Weightless Books! It contains my new Birdverse novelette “The Book of How to Live.” This piece will go live for free on the BCS website on October 6th, and I will have some notes for you then! Happy reading!

  • Two awesome reprints for “Cloth….”

    Two awesome reprints for “Cloth….”

    “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” has been chosen to appear in Heiresses of Russ, edited by A.M. Dellamonica and Steve Berman. This is my first year’s best reprint, and the first time “Cloth…” will appear in print — I’m really excited!! Aaaand… “Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds” appears in Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year 7!! I’m…