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Stewart C. Baker

Baker, Stewart C.

Birth place: Croydon, London, England, UK

73 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
July 2013 Short Fiction Raising Words Penumbra, July 2013
November 2013 25 Poem A Dust Mote Scifaikuest, November 2013
2014 27 Poem "plop! a frog" Focus, #63
April 2014 Short Fiction Oubliette Flash Fiction Online, April 2014
June 2014 Poem "dragon-smoke" Grievous Angel, June 26, 2014
November 2014 18 Short Fiction Little More Than Shadows Daily Science Fiction, November 2014
January 2015 |2 Short Fiction Some Salient Details About Your Former Lives Plasma Frequency Magazine, January-February 2015
February 2015 Short Fiction How to Configure Your Quantum Disambiguator Nature, February 5, 2015
March 2015 15 Poem Night Shift Lakeside Circus, Spring 2015
March 2015 Short Fiction Selections from the Arne-Thompson Index for After the End of Things The Sockdolager, Spring 2015
August 2015 103 Short Fiction Concerning Your Recent Creation of Sentient Horse-things on the Next Planet Over Flash Fiction Online, August 2015
September 2015 47 Short Fiction Behind the First Years StarShipSofa, No 402
September 2015 788 Short Fiction Love and Relativity Nature Physics, September 2015
November 2015 Short Fiction Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, November-December 2015
November 2015 59 Short Fiction Fugue in a Minor Key Galaxy's Edge, Issue 17: November 2015
May 2016 39 Short Fiction Just Another Night at the Abandoned Draft Bar and Grill Galaxy's Edge, Issue 20: May 2016
July 2016 Short Fiction The View from Driftwise Spindle Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #51, July 2016
August 2016 30 Short Fiction Five Recipes You Can't Live Without Spirit's Tincture, August 2016
August 2016 Short Fiction The Butterfly Disjunct Strange Constellations, August 2016
October 2016 Short Fiction Fallinghome: A Re-Evaluation Big Echo, October 2016
October 2016 Short Fiction The Plumes of Enceladus Abyss & Apex, 4th Quarter 2016
December 2016 Short Fiction Images Across a Shattered Sea The Overcast, Episode 45
April 2017 4 Short Fiction The Thing About Heisenball Daily Science Fiction, April 2017
August 2017 |5 Short Fiction First and Only Sixteenth Annual One-Woman Symposium on Time Manipulation Flash Fiction Online, August 2017
September 2017 |4 Short Fiction Blood-Stained Letters Found in a Roadside Shrine on the Outskirts of Kyoto Syntax & Salt, September 2017
September 2017 38 Short Fiction Cut-Rate Weekend at the Witch House Inn and Tavern (9 Reviews) Galaxy's Edge, Issue 28: September 2017
October 2017 Short Fiction Something on Your Mind Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2017
October 2017 |7 Poem The Fragmented Poet Files a Police Report SFPA-Sponsored Poetry Contests, October 2017
December 2017 |5 Short Fiction Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th edition: Regarding the Departed Flash Fiction Online, December 2017
December 2017 |6 Short Fiction Mercy at Eltshan-Time Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, #60, December 2017
July 2018 34 Poem "infinity--" Star*Line, Summer 2018
July 2018 37 Poem "left behind..." Star*Line, Summer 2018
July 2018 43|43.3 Poem "mossy cliff face--" Star*Line, Summer 2018
July 2018 31|31.1 Poem "sky dancing" Star*Line, Summer 2018
September 2018 Short Fiction Butterflies The Overcast, #89
September 2018 Short Fiction Failsafes Nature, September 06, 2018
October 2018 |4 Short Fiction Words I've Redefined Since Your Dinosaurs Invaded My Lunar Lair Flash Fiction Online, October 2018
November 2018 Short Fiction Memorial Park Constellary Tales, November 2018
January 2019 Short Fiction The Robotic Poet Reads Basho Big Echo, January 2019
April 2019 |7 Poem "Saturn's rings" Eye to the Telescope, April 2019
August 2019 |10 Short Fiction How to Break Causality and Write the Perfect Time Travel Story Translunar Travelers Lounge, August 2019
August 2019 Short Fiction Three Tales the River Told Nature, August 22, 2019
December 2019 18|18.1 Poem "her tangled hair" Frozen Wavelets, Fall 2019
May 2020 |3 Short Fiction Against the Dying of the Light Flash Fiction Online, May 2020
May 2020 Short Fiction Mercy Comes Last to the Vigilant Kasma Magazine, May 2020
September 2020 |12.4 Poem "sealskin..." Frozen Wavelets, Summer 2020
December 2020 Short Fiction Five Things I Hate About Phobos Futures, December 9, 2020
December 2020 |4 Short Fiction How They Name the Ships Frozen Wavelets, Fall 2020
March 2021 |9 Short Fiction Masks Dark Matter Magazine, March-April 2021
July 2021 43 Poem The Priestess Considers Her Fate Star*Line, Summer 2021
September 2021 |20 Short Fiction An Endless Vibrato Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles, Fall 2021
September 2021 Short Fiction Five Books from the Alnif Crater Travelling Library Futures, September 10, 2021
September 2021 16 Short Fiction How to Escape the Marches Infinite Worlds Science Fiction Magazine, September 2021
October 2021 |7 Poem Halsing for the Anchylose Fantasy Magazine, October 2021
January 2022 28|28.3 Poem Atom-Scattered Star*Line, Winter 2022
March 2022 |2 Short Fiction My Decohering Heart AntipodeanSF, March 2022
April 2022 Short Fiction A Difference of Opinion Kaleidotrope, Spring 2022
May 2022 |5 Short Fiction The Calligrapher's Granddaughter Haven Speculative, May-June 2022
June 2022 |3.19 Review How They Name the Ships Strange Horizons, 27 June 2022
August 2022 14 Poem "winter gardening..." Otoroshi Journal, Summer 2022
August 2022 40 Poem An Opened Door, a Haunting Rain The Fantastic Other, Summer 2022
September 2022 |3 Poem "feverbright the hills that hide the dragon's seeping warmth" Carmina Magazine, September 2022
September 2022 |3 Short Fiction No Blood of My Heart, No Breath of My Lungs, But Love PodCastle, 6 September 2022
September 2022 200 Poem Transformation sequence Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature, Autumnal Equinox 2022
October 2022 |26 Short Fiction What Not to Do When You're Polymorphed and Stuck in a Time Warp The Sprawl Mag, October 2022
November 2022 151 Poem The Three Laws of Poetics Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2022
December 2022 |5 Short Fiction The Spread of Space and Endless Devastation Lightspeed, December 2022
May 2023 103 Short Fiction Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun's Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There Galaxy's Edge, May 2023
December 2023 |4 Short Fiction Five Books from the Alnif Crater Traveling Library Flash Fiction Online, December 2023
February 2024 |1 Short Fiction Companion Animals in Mahō Shōjo Kira Kira Sunlight Lightspeed, February 2024
April 2024 Short Fiction Flowers for an Infinite Grave Kaleidotrope, Spring 2024
July 2025 3 Poem Eulogy for the Invaders Star*Line, Summer 2025
October 2025 |23 Poem Bulletin from the Metropolis Daily Eye to the Telescope, October 2025

1 English-language book

Year Type Title Author(s)
2024 Collection The Butterfly Disjunct Stewart C. Baker

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2017 100 Year Starship Canopus Award Short-Form Fiction Love and Relativity Nominee
2019 Dwarf Stars Award Best Poem "infinity--" Nominee
2023 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Poem The Three Laws of Poetics Nominee
2023 Rhysling Award Short Poem Transformation sequence Nominee
2025 Rhysling Award Short Poem Stargazing Nominee

From a 2020 bio: "Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction and poetry, along with the occasional piece of interactive fiction. His fiction has appeared in Nature, Galaxy's Edge, and Flash Fiction Online, among other places. Stewart was born in England, has lived in South Carolina, Japan, and California (in that order), and currently resides in Oregon with his family­­—although if anyone asks, he'll usually say he's from the Internet."
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