Mike Donoghue
Mike Donoghue’s short stories have appeared in literary magazines and journals including Abyss & Apex and Polar Borealis, as well as anthologies like Winds of Change: Stories About Our Climate, and Fernwood’s Everything Is So Political.
He received the Raven Award for best short story of the year from Pulp Literature, was a runner up for the James White Award, and was a finalist for the Sunburst Award. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where he works in public health research.
Praise for “Who Nuked Silicon Valley?”
“An exciting and complex thriller—GET IT.” – Kirkus Reviews
“An intelligent, highly entertaining read—I’m all in, and you will be too.”
– Readers’ Favorite
“A vividly plausible—and terrifying—near-future world. . . Propulsive in all the right moments.” – The BookLife Prize
“Caught me off guard in the best way. It’s a fast-paced, thought-provoking ride.”
– San Francisco Book Review
On Sale August 4
WHO NUKED SILICON VALLEY?
His memory was stolen. Their future depends on getting it back.
“Other novels have played in this high-tech sandbox, to be sure, but few have done so in a way that makes a reader think and care for both people and artificial entities in such strong and equal measure. An exciting and complex thriller,”
Publications
| Science Fiction | ||
| The All-Day Slingers (reprint) | Stellar Evolutions Anthology | 10-Oct-2020 |
| ”It’s Not You, It’s Me” (reprint) | Essef Salmagundi Anthology | 15-Jan, 2018 |
| When your number’s up | Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology: Gluttony | 04-Nov-2016 |
| The All-Day Slingers | Polar Borealis Magazine | Nov/Dec 2016 |
| “How did you get that scar” | Indestructiblespec | 11-Apr-2016 |
| Double-Double | Winds of Change: Stories about Our Climate | 10-Dec-2015 |
| Good Intentions | Seven Deadly Sins, A YA Anthology: Pride | 01-Apr-2015 |
| Demise of Great Expectations | Envision: Future Fiction | 01-Apr-2015 |
| Stuck in the Past | Abyss & Apex: Issue 54 | 24-Mar-2015 |
| Obit of ‘Pirate’ Samuel Tree, Aged 3 | LocoThology 2013: Tales of Fantasy & SF | 01-Sep-2013 |
| It’s not you, it’s me | Neo Opsis: Issue 22 | 01-Oct-2012 |
| Babe Ruth and the Demon | 140 and Counting | 13-Dec-2011 |
| Literary Fiction | ||
| The Wolfless Dog Pack | A Sentence for Saturday | Jan 2022 |
| Life4Sale | Pulp Literature | Spring 2020 |
| Good Intentions (reprint) | PRIDE: The Worst Sin of All | 14-Jan-2020 |
| A Weird Christmas Dinner | Weird Christmas | 19-Dec-2019 |
| Loss of a Dog | Jonny America | 24-Feb-2017 |
| The Real Story | Adverbially Challenged Volume 1 | 18-Nov-2016 |
| Suds | ImpressmentGang | 01-Sep-2014 |
| Making the Health Choice | 50WS | 27-Aug-2014 |
| The Problem with Being Really Good with Names | Everything is So Political Antho – Roseway | 05-Jul-2005 |
| The Problem with Being Really Good with Names | FreeFall: Winter 2013: Volume 23 No. 1 | 01-Nov-2013 |
| Pairings | Short Fast and Deadly | 10-Jan-2011 |
| Ashes to Ashes | PicFic | 05-Jan-2011 |
| Spending Time with the Kids | Short Fast and Deadly | 05-Dec-2010 |
| Running from your Situation | Short Fast and Deadly | 17-Oct-2010 |
| Microfiction | ||
| Mo was superior to other pets | trapezemag | 29-Sep-2011 |
| I used to make shoes like that | Cuento Magazine | 11-Aug-2011 |
| Forgotten Tort Law | Cuento Magazine | 06-Aug-2011 |
| A selfish foul crime | Nanoism | 27-Jun-2011 |
| No Moral Weapon | Seven By Twenty | 08-Apr-2011 |
| A Week in Miami | One Forty Fiction | 29-Mar-2011 |
| FTLs Drives ruin the sport | Seven By Twenty | 28-Mar-2011 |
| Steep Alarm Jangled | PicFic | 26-Mar-2011 |
| The Danger of Truth Games | One Forty Fiction | 10-Mar-2011 |
| Brittle ribs crack | Nanoism | 09-Feb-2011 |
| Past two years, divorce papers | Cuento Magazine | 27-Jan-2011 |
| Finally, … a restraining order | Cuento Magazine | 13-Jan-2011 |
| Tofu!?! | Seven By Twenty | 07-Jan-2011 |
| Inked-up Grandmother | Cuento Magazine | 02-Dec-2010 |
| Wasting time in the Real World | Nanoism | 29-Nov-2010 |
| 6th Defected Smart Round | Seven By Twenty | 29-Nov-2010 |
| The Bears, graveyard and ammo | trapezemag | 27-Nov-2010 |
| For my OCD… | trapezemag | 25-Nov-2010 |
| Meat Lottery | trapezemag | 20-Nov-2010 |
| Dorothy’s Road Trip | Cuento Magazine | 20-Nov-2010 |
| His eyes glisten | Stephen M. Wilson | 05-Nov-2010 |
| Bad Timing | One | 29-Oct-2010 |
| Ed Changed | trapezemag | 19-Oct-2010 |
| The odor of Haiti | Nanoism | 18-Oct-2010 |
| The Excitement of New Beginnings | One Forty Fiction | 18-Oct-2010 |
| “Black lambs 4 sale” | Stephen M. Wilson | 08-Oct-2010 |
| Yuri answers the door | Seedpood Publishing | 19-Sep-2010 |
| Adjusting for the windage | Seedpood Publishing | 19-Sep-2010 |
| Abandoned Love | PicFic | 13-Sep-2010 |
| High School is Like Real Life, Only More So | One Forty Fiction | 02-Sep-2010 |
| battle to the death until the end of time | thaumatrope | 26-Aug-2010 |
| Questions about tax returns | thaumatrope | 07-Aug-2010 |
| “Nice prom dress” | trapezemag | 22-Jul-2010 |
| “You want to sell me your soul?” | thaumatrope | 16-Jul-2010 |
| Time Travel Twins | thaumatrope | 18-Jun-2010 |
| The key is reproducible results | thaumatrope | 16-Jun-2010 |
| He always argued on our anniversary. | Tweet the Meat | 13-Jun-2010 |
| End of the World isn’t Hollywooody | thaumatrope | 03-Jun-2010 |
| Singing perkily | thaumatrope | 27-May-2010 |
| SETI” First!” | thaumatrope | 25-Apr-2010 |
| “We’re fucking Google. We can find anyone.” | thaumatrope | 30-Mar-2010 |
| “Where’s my Flying Car?” | Naoism | 24-Feb-2010 |
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