Novels


Palimpsest	The Orphan's Tales (vols 1 & 2) (2006 Tiptree Award winner, 2008 Mythopoeic Award winner, 2007 World Fantasy Award nominee)


The Grass-Cutting Sword	Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams	The Labyrinth

Online Works

The Ice Puzzle

The Ice Puzzle--A mirror broken, a figure shattered: through prose and poetry, the Snow Queen flashes in and out of view as she surfaces in many cultures and eras. Solve the puzzle, look into the mirror, and find the women at the heart of the myth. Available by subscription online. (2007)

In the Can

The Alchemy of Winter

The story of a young girl named Anselm who grew up on the shores of Lake Erie, ignored by her parents, imagining a different life. Until she walks out onto the ice of the frozen lake one winter and finds that everything she dreamed is dazzlingly, terrifyingly true.

Under In the Mere

Under In the Mere: An Arthurian tale, following the stories of seven of the worthy knights, composed in prose that floats in and out of modernity, as fluid as the Lake which held the Lady and her Sword.

In Progress

Deathless

A retelling of the Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless fairy tales, set in Stalinist Russia. (2011 from Tor Books).

The Spindle of Necessity

The story of a place that never was: the Kingdom of Prester John , the utopia described by an anonymous, 12th century document which captured the imagination of the medieval world and drove hundreds of lost souls to seek out its secrets, inspiring explorers well into the 1800s. But what if it were all true? What if there was such a place, and a poor, broken priest stumbled past its borders, discovering, not a Christian paradise, but a country where everything is possible, immortality is easily had, and the western world is nothing but a dim and distant dream?

How do you learn how to live in paradise?