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Ray Nayler

RAY NAYLER is a Hugo and Locus Award winning author. Born in Quebec and raised in California, he lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo as a Foreign Service officer, a Peace Corps volunteer, and an international development worker. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani, and Vietnamese, and Spanish. In Vietnam he was Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. He was international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was most recently a visiting scholar at the George Washington University's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. Ray lives in Washington, DC with his wife Anna, their daughter Lydia, and two rescued cats – one Tajik, one American. ​He is represented by Seth Fishman at the Gernert Company.

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Books25

Cuentos para Algernon: Ano IX

Cuentos para Algernon: Ano IX

with Stephen Volk, John Crowley and Kurt Fawver

Lightspeed Magazine, April 2021

Lightspeed Magazine, April 2021

with John Joseph Adams and An Owomoyela

Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2024

Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2024

with Sandra McDonald

Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2023

Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2023

with Sheila Finch

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6

with Allan Kaster and Hannu Rajaniemi

Palaces of the Crow

Palaces of the Crow

2026
Bifrost n121: Jo Walton, le subtil changement

Bifrost n121: Jo Walton, le subtil changement

2026

with Jo Walton and Xavier Maumejean

Bifrost n 119 : Greg Bear

Bifrost n 119 : Greg Bear

2025

with Olivier Girard, Greg Bear and Daryl Gregory

Bifrost n 118 : Ayerdhal

Bifrost n 118 : Ayerdhal

2025

with Olivier Girard, Ayerdhal and Nicolas Martin

Where the Axe Is Buried

Where the Axe Is Buried

2025
Bifrost n 113 : Intelligence artificielle

Bifrost n 113 : Intelligence artificielle

2024

with Olivier Girard

Protectorats

Protectorats

2023
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories

The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories

2022

with T.R. Napper and T.J. Berry

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 113

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 113

2022

with Jonathan L. Howard

Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2022

Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2022

2022

with Sheila Williams, Michael Cassutt and Paul McAuley

Asimov's Science Fiction, November/December 2022

Asimov's Science Fiction, November/December 2022

2022

with Kelly Jennings, Michael Cassutt, James Patrick Kelly and James Maxey

The Mountain in the Sea

The Mountain in the Sea

2022
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 180, September 2021

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 180, September 2021

2021

with D.A. Xiaolin Spires

Asimov's Science Fiction May/June 2021

Asimov's Science Fiction May/June 2021

2021

with David Moles, Brad Aiken and James Patrick Kelly

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 131, April 2021

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 131, April 2021

2021

with Ashok K. Banker and An Owomoyela

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2021

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April 2021

2021

with Ron Collins, Sean McMullen and Jerry Oltion

Asimov's Science Fiction January/February 2021

Asimov's Science Fiction January/February 2021

2021

with Ted Kosmatka

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine November/December 2018

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine November/December 2018

2018

with Kristine Katherine Rusch, R. Garcia y Robertson, Michael Swanwick, James Patrick Kelly and David Ebenbach

Sleepwalking: Crime Stories

Sleepwalking: Crime Stories

2012
American Graveyards

American Graveyards

2001

Novellas1

Tusks of Extinction

Tusks of Extinction

2024

Collections1

The Job at the End of the World

The Job at the End of the World

2023