Short Story Sales:


• Nomad in Abyss & Apex; available online.

  1. This story was also selected for the book The Best of Abyss & Apex; Volume One.

  2. Reviews:

  3. • Tangent Online: “the best story in this issue”

  4. • The Fix Short Fiction Review: “shows that SF and romance can be combined to good effect”


• Pilgrimage in Writers of the Future, Vol. 23; also available as an audiobook.

  1. This story was a winner in the WotF competition and appears in their 2007 yearly anthology.

  2. Reviews:

  3. • Sandstorm Reviews: “approach[es] greatness”

  4. • Starfleet News Service: “[a] must-read in the volume”

  5. • The Fix Short Fiction Review: “a moving tale about the importance of time and life”

  6. • Black Gate; Adventures in Fantasy Literature: Recommended reading list for 2007


  1. •Murder in Abyss & Apex; available online.

  2. Reviews:

  3. • Gardner Dozois in Locus Magazine, July 2009: “a well-crafted offworld mystery.”

  4. • storySouth magazine’s “Notable Stories of 2009” list.

  5. • Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection.


• Under the Shouting Sky in Cosmos Magazine, issue #28; also available online.

  1. This story also won first place in The Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Story Contest.

  2. This story was selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection.

  3. Reviews:

  4. • Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading List for 2009  

  5. • Tangent Online’s 2009 Recommended Reading List 


  1. •Jerry in Neo-Opsis, issue #18; purchase here.

  2. Reviews:

  3. • Tangent Online: “simply the best piece in the magazine”


  1. •Worm Days in Electric Velocipede (publication upcoming).


  3. •Chester in Escape Velocity (publication upcoming).

Biography:

  1. In the past I’ve been a software developer, jeweler, musical instrument maker, sculptor, mechanical technician, and a few other even-less-interesting things. I live in a suburb of Boston, MA with my wife, a dog and two cats.

Photo:

  1. Yeah, I know, you can't see what I look like very well here. I'm trying to be mysterious, like Thomas Pynchon. Also, using an unclear picture means I don't have to update it or apologize for it being out of date.

Contact me:

  1. At karlbunker at mac dot com.

Blog/Twitter/Facebook/ad blahsium:

  1. No, no, no, and no. I have quite enough ways in which to waste my time already, thankyouverymuch.

Greetings. I am Karl Bunker, a new science fiction author. I currently have a few short story sales to my credit, but more output and more sales are expected for the future.