Around lunchtime on their third day crossing the wetlands, Mikkel had seen more forms of fungus than he’d ever imagined could possibly exist. Many of them he would never have identified as such, were it not for the Herbalist’s inexhaustible commentary. The fungi that actually looked the way he expected a mushroom to look hardly…
Published in in Phase Change (Twelfth Planet Press), 2022 Raven does an excellent job of being earnest […] while also genuinely telling a story.’ / ‘It’s a powerful story on many levels. Alexandra Pierce, Locus (January 2023)
Published in Riffs Journal 5(1), 2021 (free to download)
Published in Cyber World (Hex Publishers), 2016 Republished in Best of British Science Fiction 2016 (Newcon Press) Each story in this outstanding collection is set in a near-future society with intriguing technological advances, but the social and cultural implications of these developments vary widely […] Paul Graham Raven’s “Staunch” takes a dystopian view of copyright and…
Published in Noir (Newcon Press), 2014 It’s a detective story — or at least it’s a story with a detective in it — set on the slippery streets of a richly realised city. The protagonist, as should be the case in all good noir stories, is hopelessly out of his depth and beset by those more…
Published in Twelve Tomorrows 2014 (MIT Technology Review), ed. Bruce Sterling (2014) Republished in Year’s Best Science Fiction #32, ed. Gardner Dozois (2015) … [t]he best stories [in TT2014] are Lauren Beukes’s “Slipping” and Paul Graham Raven’s “Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico”, both of which manage to inject human drama into their visions of the…
Published in Colinthology (Wizard’s Tower Books), 2012
Published in Fables from the Fountain (Newcon Press), 2011