William Ledbetter | Science Fiction

Published Novels and Edited Anthologies

• "Level Five" Novel from Audible Originals (forthcoming July 2018)
• "Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade" Baen Books (Nov. 2017)
• "A Lone Star in the Sky, Belaurient Press (Aug. 2017)
• "Tales From a Lone Star: A Future Classics Anthology," Belaurient Press (Aug. 2013)

Published Short Fiction

• "What I Am" Asimov's (forthcoming Nov/Dec. 2018)
• "Bridging" Homo Stellaris anthology - Baen Books (forthcoming)
• "Broken Wings" Fantasy & Science Fiction. (forthcoming July 2018)
• "Vigilance" Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May 2018)
• "The Beast From Below" Fantasy & Science Fiction. (March 2018)
• "In a Wide Sky, Hidden" Fantasy & Science Fiction (July 2017)
• "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" Daily Science Fiction. (March 2017)
• "Steal From the Sun" No Shit There I Was anthology - Alliteration Ink (Jan. 2017)
• "The One and the Many" Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores. (Dec., 2016)
• "Tethers" Baen.com (Nov. 2016)
  [reprinted The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF Vol. 3, Baen Books, June 2017]
• "The Long Fall Up" Fantasy & Science Fiction (May, 2016)  NEBULA WINNER!
  [reprinted in the Nebula Awards Showcase 2018, Aug. 2018]
  [reprinted in Romanian, in ZIN magazine, Dec. 2017]
  [reprinted in A Lone Star in the Sky, Aug. 2017]
  [reprinted in Chinese FFA/Future Affairs Admin, May 2017]
• "Piper's Due" Daily Science Fiction (April 2016)
  
• "Moonlet Sonata" Baen.com (April 2016)
• "The Night With Stars" Infinite Science Fiction (September 2014)
• "Meat 2.0" Stupefying Stories (August 2014)
• "Stealing Arturo" Baen Books/Baen.com (February 2014)
  [reprinted - The Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera from Baen Books June 2015]
• "That Other Sea" Escape Pod (February 2014)
     *Voted best Escape Pod story of 2014
• "Square One" Something Wicked (March 2013)
• "Last House, Lost House" Short & Twisted: Fairy Tales (June 2012)
  [reprinted - Tales from a Lone Star Sept. 2013]
  [reprinted in The Future is Nigh anthology, Feb. 2017]
• "The Rings of Mars" Writers of the Future Vol. 28 , (April 2012)
  [audio reprint - StarShipSofa June 2016]
  [reprinted in A Lone Star in the Sky, Aug. 2017]
• "Bridges Dark and Distant" The Gruff Variations Anthology (March 2012)
• "Armageddon Under Glass" Aoife's Kiss #40 (March 2012)
• "Lake Effect," Allegory Magazine (Sept. 2011)
  [reprinted - Plasma Frequency Anti-Apocalypse issue March 2015]
• "Over the Moon and Running," Something Wicked (October 2008)
• "Thief of Hearts," Sails & Sorcery anthology (August 2007)
• "How Tom Hanks Saved my Baby From the Moon," Yard Dog Press (June 2007)
• "Regatta in G Minor," Running the Line anthology (Oct. 2006)
• "Medic!," Jim Baen's Universe, (Aug. 2006)
  [reprinted - Tales from a Lone Star Sept. 2013]
• "Ice Scream ", Yard Dog Press, (Dec. 2005)
• "Ascension Salad," Sci Fi Dimensions, (Aug. 2005)
  [reprinted - Short & Twisted (Sept. 2012)]
• "Shell Game", Flash Me Magazine, (Feb. 2005)
• "In the Arms of Monsters," Continuum Science Fiction, (March. 2004)
• "A Beast Named Winter," Distant Worlds, (Nov. 2003)
  [reprinted - 4 Star Stories (March 2011)]
• "Hired Help," Flash Me Magazine, (Oct. 2003)
• "Monarch," Quantum Muse, (Jan. 2003)
• "HindSight", Foxfire, #4, (Sept. 2001)
  [reprinted - SBD's Science Fiction and Fantasy E-Zine, (Sept. 2002)]
  [reprinted - SBD SF&F 2002 Anthology, Stories of Myth,Legend and Future.]
• "Window Pain," Parchment Symbols/Anxiety Publications (June 2000).

Published Non-Fiction

• "Bug-Eyed Monsters verses The World Builders," Baen.com (June 2017)
• "The Scientist Next Door: Or How to Approach Experts with Research Questions," SFWA Blog (Aug. 2014)
• "The Exoplanet Hunters," Baen.com (Dec. 2013)
• "Family Therapy: Learning to love Mercury and Pluto" Baen.com (Jan. 2013)
• "If Contests had Tails" Baen.com (Dec. 2012)
• "An Energy Pioneer Looks Back," Ad Astra (Summer 2008)