Publications by Barton Paul Levenson


Short Fiction



"Twenty Peasants."
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, August 1991.

"Virtual Bridges."
Confluence Program Book 1997 (First Prize Winner).

"Reality Forbidden."
Confluence Program Book 1998 (First Prize Winner).

"The Physics of Space Beer Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Clones."
Maelstrom, April 1999.

"Sometimes We Lie."
Eternity On-Line, March 2000.
...Reprinted in the electronic anthology Leaps of Faith 2003.
...Reprinted in the print anthology Leaps of Faith 2008, available here and on Amazon.com.



"Scrunched Up."
Future Orbits, February 2002.

"Along with Captain Gooding."
Future Orbits, June 2002.

"Writer's Block."
Dark Seasons, January 2003.

"The Closet."
Chiaroscuro, March 2003.
...Now (2008) available as a podcast here on Pseudopod.

"Temple Cat."
Cricket, June 2005.



"The Horror in the Monkey-Squeezing Room."
ScienceFictionFantasyHorror.com, June 2005.
...Pirated in Sweden, 2006.

"The Problem of Pain."
The Sword Review, July 2005.

"Undead."
Insidious Reflections, July 2005.

"Van Helsing in London."
Hungur, Halloween 2005.

"All the Horrible Dragons."
The Sword Review, December 2005.



"Pet Cat."
In the anthology, Animal Magnetism (2005), which is available here.
...Reprinted in the Wrong World 20-Halloween-08 anthology DVD, which is available here.

"The Intruder."
In the anthology, Travel Guide to the Haunted Mid-Atlantic Region (2006), which is available here.

"Rain and Revenge."
RAGE Machine Issue #2, March 2006, which is available here.

"The Curse."
In the anthology, Shadow Regions (2006), which is available here.

"The Extraordinary Circumstances On Board H.M.S. Steadfast."
Cicada, January-February 2007.



"Problem in Logic."
Staffs & Starships, issue 1, 2007, which is available here.

"The Rescue."
Beyond Centauri, issue 18, 2007, which is available here.

"Dedication Day."
Art & Prose, October 2007, which is available here.

"Katie Belle."
Whispering Spirits, October 2007, which is available here.

"Side Trip."
Science Fiction Trails, #2, 2007, which is available here.



"The Fate of the Crystal Eye."
In the anthology, Forbidden Speculation (2007), which is available here.

"Wifey."
Written Word, Holiday Edition 2007, which is available here.

"Wisdom."
Anathema On-Line Anthology, January, 2008, which is available here.

"City of the Dead."
In the anthology, Ruins Metropolis (2008), which is available here.

"The Zombies."
Necrotic Tissue 3, July, 2008, which is available by subscription. Try
here.



"Raid, or, How Team Alpha Saved the World (Again)."
Atomjack 11, August, 2008, which is available here.

"Second Visit."
Whispering Spirits 19 (issue 2), November, 2008, which is available here.

"The Primitives."
Wrong World, December, 2008.

"The Boogie-Woogie, Time-Traveling, Cyborg Blues."
Electric Spec 4 (issue 1), February 2009, which is available here.

"Khuminay and the Shapeshifter."
In the anthology, Space Cops (2009), which is available here.


Poems



"Off-Topic."
Astropoetica Volume 4.2, Spring 2006, available
here.

"Do Red Dwarfs Have Habitable Planets?"
Astropoetica Volume 7.1, Spring 2009, available here.


Novels and E-Books



Ella the Vampire, Lyrical Press 2008, available here.

Parole, Lyrical Press 2009, available here.


Nonfiction



"The Ideology of Robert A. Heinlein."
The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1998.
...Reprinted in Gigamesh (Spain) 1999.
...Reprinted in Ikarie (Czech Republic) 2003.

"James White's The Dream Millennium."
The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1999.

"Jeffrey Sackett's Candlemas Eve."
The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2001.

"S. L. Viehl’s Stardoc."
The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 2002.

"The New Sub-Genre: The Existential Story."
The Lyriodical, January 2009, available here.

"Get Your Stars Straight."
The Lyriodical, 3rd Quarter 2009, available here.