Writer & EditorFiction
Science Fiction
The Language of Corpses
Book 1 of Mechalum Space Series
"A powerful launch to a fresh SF series that promises a wealth of ingenious concepts" - Kirkus Starred Review
The year is 2728, and instantaneous travel is possible by gating from one body to another on any of 300 human-inhabited worlds. On Cecrops, Jazari wants to escape her boss, a crime lord, and figure out why she’s always heard voices in her head. On Corvus, Eala is a scientist studying the mammal-like taktak who wants to understand their telepathic abilities. In the outer reaches of the Sol system, ZD777 wakes from cryo, alone on a frozen asteroid that is about to explode. Chance throws them together, and they have to figure out not only how to save themselves but also a mystery with implications for the future of humankind. Readers of Ann Leckie and James S.A. Corey will enjoy this character-based space opera.
Short Stories
How to Be a Man
Short Story Collection
"In this winning debut collection of short stories, Linse presents a vivid portrait of life in the American West.” - Publishers Weekly Starred Review
A girl whose self-worth revolves around masculinity, a bartender who loses her sense of safety, a woman who compares men to plants, and a boy who shoots his cranked-out father. These are a few of the hard-scrabble characters in Tamara Linse’s debut short story collection, How to Be a Man. Set in contemporary Wyoming—the myth of the West taking its toll—these stories reveal the lives of tough-minded girls and boys, self-reliant women and men, struggling to break out of their lonely lives and the emotional havoc of their families to make a connection, to build a life despite the odds. How to Be a Man falls within the traditions of Maile Meloy, Tom McGuane, and Annie Proulx.
Published Short Stories
The following stories, except the last, are available in the collection How to Be a Man.
- 2011 "Dammed," short fiction, South Dakota Review, Spring/Summer 2011
- 2011 "How to Be a Man," short fiction, New West, March 25, 2011
- 2010 “The Body Animal,” short fiction, Talking River, Double Issue #27/28, 2010
- 2010 “Exit Wounds,” short fiction, Imitation Fruit, Issue 6, May 2010
- 2010 “Wanting,” short fiction, Georgetown Review, 2010 (runner-up for the 2010 contest)
- 2010 “Revelations,” short fiction, Fried Chicken and Coffee, February 19, 2010
- 2009 “Control Erosion,” short fiction, SNReview, Autumn 2009 (pdf)
- 2009 “In the Headlights,” short fiction, roger, Spring 2009
- 2009 “A Dangerous Shine,” short fiction, Word Riot, April 2009
- 2008 “Oranges,” short fiction, Ramble Underground, Volume IV, Issue 1, Spring 2008
- 2008 “Men Are Like Plants,” short fiction, Slow Trains, Volume VII, Issue 3, Winter 2007-2008
- 2007 “Change Your Hair, Change Your Life,” short fiction, Prick of the Spindle, Volume 1.3, December 2007
- 2007 "What with the Dying," short short, Six Sentences, November 14, 2007
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