Pauline Barmby, speculative fiction writer

The Andromeda galaxy, showing a yellow centre and red spiral arms, with scattered blue and red dots

What's Your Favorite Galaxy?

 

 

 

 

 

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (Univ. of Arizona) & GALEX Science Team.

 

 

 

 

A white woman with chin-length brown hair and green eyes

About

I’m a writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories, a member of SFWA and the Codex writers group. I'm also an astrophysicist who believes you can’t have too many favorite galaxies and the namesake of a main belt asteroid, minor planet 281067. When not writing or sciencing, I run and knit. I live in Ontario, Canada with my family, including requisite cats.

Bibliography

 

Forthcoming

Galilean Crossing, Analog Science Fiction & Fact

Universal Scale Factor, Bell Press' Stasis

 


2024

Intergalactic Imperative - Astral, Alien Fiction

The Observatory at the End of the World (reprint) - Daikaijuzine 019

Second Cryogenesis - Wyldblood Press Flash

Intercalary - The Pink Hydra, Volume 1, Number 2

Unraveled - Flash Point SF

N-Body Code - Parsec Ink's Triangulation: Hospitium

Ten Easy Steps to Boost Your Civilization’s Kardashev Rating - Third Flatiron Press' Offshoots: Humanity Twigged

Light Echoes (reprint) - Shadowed Realms: the 2022 Indie Dark Fiction Anthology

Leg Breaker - Black Hare Press Patreon

Stratigraphic Homesick Blues - Stupefying Stories'  The Odin Chronicles Season 2

White Dwarf Companion Blues - In Another Time, Issue 2

Memory, Unmasked (audio reprint) - Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast 0917

Succession Plan - Utopia Science Fiction Apr/May 2024

Rise of the (Coffee) Machines - Dragon Gems, spring 2024

Running Out of Time - Troopers, Issue 3

The Triennial Igneous Tri-partite Competition - Stupefying Stories

Vacuum Cycles - Shacklebound Books Newsletter

2023

Solar Gravitational Lens - OnSpec, Issue #126

Trans-Earth Injection - Stupefying Stories

There is Only One Black Cat - Stupefying Stories

No Justice for Deserters - Stupefying Stories

Blue Straggler - Daikaijuzine 014

RealTimeRisk - Martian Magazine, Issue 9

Songbird, Jailbird - Stupefying Stories

The Monarch and the Saucer - Illustrated Worlds, Volume 2

Rynnden has Invited You to a Scheduled Meeting - Nature: Futures

 

2022

Internet-Enabled Appliances Commence Preliminary Discussions on Unionization - Martian Magazine, Issue 7

The Observatory at the End of the World - Corporate Catharsis: the Work From Home Edition

Light Echoes - Nightmare Sky: Stories of Astronomical Horror

Five Sigma - Utopia Science Fiction Oct/Nov 2022

Scholastic Offense - AcademFic, Vol. 3

Unit Conversion - Martian Magazine, Issue 5

Core Collapse - Planetside: Science Fiction Drabbles

Dayside to Nightside - Planetside: Science Fiction Drabbles

Truesword - Tree and Stone, Issue 3

Memory, Unmasked - SFS Stories, Number 11

Limiting Magnitude - Compelling Science Fiction Short Stories

Contact

Email: pauline@galacticwords.com. Bluesky: @pbarmby.bsky.social