A new 22,000-word novella, Twenty Lights to 'The Land of Snow' has been published in Going Interstellar, an anthology edited by Jack McDevitt and Les Johnson, and published by Baen Books.

New novelette Unfit for Eden was the featured story in issue #26/27 of Postscripts, published by PS Publishing in January 2012.  Copies can be obtained directly from the publisher here.

Michael's new story, a tribute to David G. Hartwell on his 70th birthday, Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, has been posted on Tor.com.

The Pile has won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story of 2008,  To read the story online go here. For a list of all the winners go here.

New short story "The Library of Babble", has been published in the Winter 2010 issue of Subterranean Online and can be read here.

The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, a 200,000-word retrospective collection was published in a signed-limited edition by Subterranean Press.  It was edited by Michael H. Hutchins and has an introduction by Jack McDevitt.  There are 25 stories spanning forty years of Michael's short fiction, with accompanying author's notes about each story.  Among them are several award-winning pieces, and eight never-before-collected stories.  Cover art is by Lee Moyer (click on the image to see a larger version).  The publisher's announcement can be read here.  Unsigned copies are also available from Amazon.

Vinegar Peace, or, The Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage, the 2010 Nebula Award-nominated novelette has been reprinted in The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011.  A reading of the story can be heard on StarShipSofa.com.

Nebula Award-winning novelette The Quickening has been reprinted in Joe R. Lansdale's anthology Crucified Dreams: Tales of Urban Horror from Tachyon Publications.

Sariela; or, Spiritual Dysfunction & Counterangelic Longings: A Case Study in One Act has been reprinted in the Stephen Jones-edited anthology Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts, published by Ulysses Press.

Michael's anthology A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales about the Christ has been published by Thunder's Mouth Press.  It includes original and reprinted stories by Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Isaac Babel, Jorge Luis Borges, Gene Wolfe, Paul Di Filippo, Bruce Holland Rogers, Oscar Wilde, and others.  The book can be ordered from Amazon.  Go here for the list of contents.