SHORT STORIES  

• "Shirley Knott" is featured in AlienSkin Magazine, autumn 2008. It even has a cute illustration!
• "Father's Footsteps" is live on the podcast Well Told Tales, September 2008.
• "Lightbringer's Class" is set in my Yeresunsa universe, and won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest, 2007.
• "The Wolf Is Here, the Bear Is Here" won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest, 2007.
• "The Aeon Project" won second place in the Conduit Short Story Contest, 2005.
• "Leveling Mountains" was featured in March 2005 of Aoife's Kiss, and included in the sixth Wondrous Web Worlds anthology, 2005.
• "Sunrise" was featured in Cyberpulp Magazine Issue #1, June 2004.  It can be purchased from Fictionwise or the PDA Bookstore.
• "The Blur" was published in Twilight Times, Summer 2004.
• "A Taste of Time" can be tasted in Deep Magic Issue #24, May 2004.
• "Decrepit" was the 90-word daily story of April 29, 2004 in Flashshot.
• "Fiction" was featured in Neverary.com (now defunct), October 2003.
• "Lightbringer's Class" was featured in Shining Waters Fantasy Literature, February 2003.

 ARTICLES and REVIEWS

• "Down the Tube" is about film adaptations of books.  Published in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, August 2006.
• "Short Story Writing for the Novelist at Heart" was originally published in Neverary.com (now defunct), October 2004.
• Robert Jordan: Genius or Hack? is published on SFFWorld.com, January 2002. 
• Sexism in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is originally published on SFFWorld.com, February 2002, and later updated by me on my website.
• "Otherland: The Sea of Silver Light", by Tad Williams.  My review was published on Nabou, October 2001.

 INTERVIEWS

• Spacesuits & Sixguns, January 2008.
• Gamasutra, September 2005.

 NOVELS  

•  City of Slaves  -- Science Fiction/Fantasy.  Approx. 114,000 words, completed in 2007.  THOMAS is a hero to his friends, a mind reader who can talk his way out of any bad situation.  But when a powerful cabal of mind readers known as the TORTH capture Thomas, he is unable to save his friends from slavery under Torth rule.  As Thomas succumbs to luxuries among his Torth kin, his friends must seek ways to survive and escape ... and rescue Thomas from the monster he is becoming.  Unpublished.
• Caves and Canyons  -- Torth Book 2, the sequel to "City of Slaves."  Approx. 110,000 words, completed in 2008.  A group of fugitive slaves learn how to survive on an enslaved world, and begin to battle their powerful, all-knowing enemies, the TORTH.  Unpublished.
• City of the Dead -- Torth Book 3.  Approx. 126,000 words, completed in 2009.  The TORTH series continues.  The main characters wage war against their Torth enemies, and encounter secrets that may help them overthrow the vast Torth Empire.  Unpublished.
•  The Illusionist  -- Young Adult /Science Fantasy.  Approx. 58,000 words, completed in 2001.  An impoverished girl teams up with a foreign businessman to defeat their mutual enemies and restore her family's status.  Unpublished.
•  The Torth Resurgence  -- Science Fiction/Fantasy.  Approx. 113,000 words, abandoned in 1998. Two friends become heroes in parallel universes, and when they are reunited, they can no longer tolerate each other.
•  Summer of Fire  -- Fantasy.  Approx. 30,000 words, abandoned in 2008.  A young aristocrat loses his family, wealth, and status all in one night, and seeks revenge. 
•  Sarah's Secrets  -- Young Adult/Science Fantasy.  Completed in the early 1990s at the age of 12.  An outcast boy discovers he has powers and an alien heritage, and saves the universe.  Unpublished.
•  Salt Water  -- Horror.  Completed in the early 1990s at the age of 12.  An outcast boy discovers his deformed half-brother living in the basement of his mansion, and must save his most hated classmate from being devoured. Unpublished.

 SCREENPLAYS

•  Eden  -- ScifFi Thriller.  100 pages, completed in 2005, awaiting time for revisions.  A team of explorerers on a newly settled planet become host bodies for intelligent alien parasites. 

 MORE

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Abby Goldsmith is an animator and SFF writer.  She graduated from The California Institute of the Arts in 2000, and from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2004.  She works in the video game industry.