Where's the Story?

Shortly after ''TeleAbsence'' appeared in Analog magazine, I decided to make it available freely to all via my webpage. For a few months, I licensed it to the Dark Planet webpage for free.

I suspect it was all this extra publicity that got the story nominated for the Hugo Award in 1996.

In 1997, I decided to try something else with the story. I leased it to the Mind's Eye Fiction webpage (which used to be at tale.com), run by Ken Jenks, which offered the first half of the story for free, and charged a nominal fee for the second half. I kept the story there from February 1997 to October 2000.