Stella is published! I am now writing the first chapters of the novel that comes after Stella, to be titled Stephen. I also plan to write a third book in the series, tentatively titled Stranger. The release of the Horizons anthology is also pending; a few cosmetic changes are underway before we let it out of the gate.

Also in work, I plan to finish several more short stories for another anthology I will call The Abridged Terror War III. These stories take place at some undefined point more than a century into the future, during a period of approximately 50 years of turmoil. They follow a loose thread of indirectly connected events and probe the impacts of TWIII on society, bringing human bravery and folly into stark relief. Some tales are dark, some are funny, and some are just plain difficult to categorize. That's war. The stories will include Element 15, The Extremist (previously published), Journeyman's Lesson (previously published), Searching for Dr. Steigelmann, The Sayward Incident, Death Sentence, Trail of Destruction, Ice-Blooded, Deadly Exposure, and Murder on the Falcon.

I am also working on another collection that I call Disenentia Nova ('New Endings'), which will include my short stories concerning different ways worlds could end and/or change. The worlds described are sometimes global, sometimes personal, but often they are both! D.N. will include some tales I already published, plus many not yet released. I have one more short story to complete for D.N., to be titled The Dispossessed. You can see the cover for D.N. here:
http://www.richardwinder.ca/news.html

Finally, I'm about half-way finished with a tale called Beyond 550, about a trip to the edge of the solar system, seeking to use the Sun as a gravitational lens to locate an interstellar distress call. What's the point working in linear fashion when there are so many ideas to scribble down!