Collection) Bibliography Novels Vanitas (1988) The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (2002) The Girl in the Glass (2005) The Cosmology of the Wider World (2005) The Shadow Year (2008) Ahab's Return (2018) Well-Built City trilogy The Physiognomy (1997) Memoranda (1999) The Beyond (2001) Novellas The Twilight Pariah (2017) Out of Body (2020) Short stories "The Casket" (1981) "Legacy" (1984) "Rapture of the Deep" (1984) "The Master of Fiction" (1988) "Rose Country" (1989) "Never" (1989) "The Alchemist, Becalmed At Sea" (1989) "The Cosmology of the Wider World" (1990) "The Last Half" (1990) "The Place Where nothing Moved" (1991) "Eclipse" (1991) "Couch Dancing" (1992) "The Eighth Wonder" (1992) "The Colossus of Roads" (1993) "Every Richie There Is" (1993) "A Hole in the Day" (1993) "The Woman Who Counts Her Breath" (1994) "The Delicate" (1994) "On the Road to New Egypt" (1995) "Rabbit Test" (1995) "The White Man" (1995) "Grass Island" (1995) "At Reparata" (2000) "Malthusian's Zombie" (2000) "Pansolapia" (2001) "High Tea With Jules Verne" (2001) "The Far Oasis" (2001) "Quiet Days in Purgatory" (2001) "Horrors By Waters" (2001) "The Honeyed Knot" (2001) "Exo-Skeleton Town" (2001) "Out of the Canyon" (2001) "Floating in Lindrethool" (2001) "Summer Afternoon" (2001) "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" (2002) "Bright Morning" (2002) "Creation" (2002) "What's Sure to Come" (2002) "The Green Word" (2002) "Something By the Sea" (2002) "The Beautiful Gelreesh" (2003) "The Empire of Ice Cream" (2003) "The Yellow Chamber" (2003) "Present From the Past" (2003) "Coffins on the River" (2003) "The Annals of Eelin-Ok" (2004) "Jupiter's Skull" (2004) "The Weight of Words" (2004) "A Night in the Tropics" (2004) "The Trentino Kid" (2004) "The Boatman's Holiday" (2005) "Euroborean Lordosis" (2005) "Figurative Synesthesia" (2005) "The Scribble Mind" (2005) "Giant Land" (2005) "A Man of Light" (2005) "Botch Town" (2006) "The Night Whiskey" (2006) "The Way He Does It" (2006) "The Dreaming Wind" (2007) "Under the Bottom of the Lake" (2007) "Quitting Dreams" (2007) "A Few Things About Ants" (2007) "The Bedroom Light" (2007) "Ariadne's Mother" (2007) "The Drowned Life" (2007) "The Manticore Spell" (2007) "Daltharee" (2008) "The Dream of Reason" (2008) "After Moreau" (2008) "The Fat One" (2008) "The Dismantled Invention of Fate" (2008) "The Seventh Expression of the Robot General" (2008) "The Golden Dragon" (2008) "The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper" (2009) "Weiroot" (2009) "The Coral Heart" (2009) "86 Deathdick Road" (2010) "Ganesha" (2010) "Sorcerer Minus" (2010) "Dr. Lash Remembers" (2010) "Polka-dots and Moonbeams" (2010) "Down Atsion