Rosemary Claire Smith writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories showcasing her interests in dinosaurs, mythology, genetic engineering, space exploration, alternate history, time travel, and aliens. She draws on her background as a trowel-wielding archaeologist, reformed lawyer, and keen observer of society. Her other interests include flower arranging, abstract photography, foil fencing, and astronomy. In 2023, she began reviewing science fiction books for Analog Magazine.

Her story “Apollo in Retrograde” won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and came in second in the Analog Science Fiction reader’s choice awards. Find out what further adventures await former cosmonaut Natalya Orlova since she became an astronaut for NASA. Are you interested in the science, such as the geology and geography, behind the story? That’s covered in the January/February 2024 issue of Analog. “Apollo in Retrograde” is a sequel to The Next Frontier,  which was also an Analog Readers’ Award finalist. That story appeared in the July/August, 2021 issue of Analog Science Fiction. “The Next Frontier” looks at what might happen if a Soviet cosmonaut had defected to the United States during the height of the race to the Moon in the 1960s. What if that cosmonaut was a woman whose door into space slammed shut when Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in orbit?

The Reinvented Heart includes Rosemary’s science fiction story, “Etruscan Afterlife,” in which a devoted couple contemplates simultaneously uploading their minds as they draw nearer and nearer to the end of their natural lifespans. “Murder at the Westminster Dino Show, in The Reinvented Detective introduces Timidity Rex, a miniature tyrannosaurus who helps solve crimes.

Rosemary’s interactive fiction role-playing game, T-Rex Time Machine is available. In it, you invent a time machine and take your best friend back to the age of dinosaurs. As one does

Blogging the Mesozoic consists of short essays about dinosaurs (you expected maybe?), writing fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy, as well as travel, and whatever else catches her fancy. It’s updated about twice a month. You can also subscribe to her newsletter.

Rosemary is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop as well as Taos Toolbox, Paradise Lost, Launchpad Astronomy Workshop, and The Wayward Wormhole.

MORE STORIES AND ESSAYS BY ROSEMARY:

Conservation of Mismatched Shoes is in Amazing Stories. Adolescence is more complicated when your big brother discovers how to get to the multiverse and you’re desperate for him to take you there.

Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs whisks you to Cretaceous Antarctica where the slipperiest creature may be another time traveler. It was a finalist for Analog Magazine’s AnLab Readers’ Award.

Monumental Thinking was Rosemary’s most recent guest editorial in the January/February 2021 issue of Analog Science Fiction. Her other Analog guest editorials include: Mars Needs Children  (July/August 2017) ; On the Money (November 2016); Our Right, Our Duty, Our Privilege (March 2016) which deals with voting and elections; The Future is Prologue (December 2015); and Conspiracy Theories for Everybody (July/August 2015). She will likely have more guest editorials coming up.

The Holy Wars of Mathematics is a short horror story in the anthology 99 Tiny Terrors. 

Dino Mate – Several characters from Not with a Bang return to the Mesozoic in this story in the December, 2014 issue of Analog Science Fiction. It features some unusual African dinosaurs that don’t get the public attention they merit.

The Zombie Limbo Master was reprinted electronically in Quickfic 1 Anthology. It was first published in the May 2014 issue of Bastion Science Fiction and was also reprinted recently by  Digital Horror Fiction. Who knew that limbo dancing might just save you from the zombie apocalypse?

Not with a Bang is in the July/Aug 2013 issue of  Analog Science Fiction. It’s a love story with dinosaurs.

Mom and the Ankylosaur was published in Fantastic Stories.   Mom was afraid to fly, but was thrilled to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Cretaceous.

Birch Glow is Rosemary’s first story published in Analog Science Fiction.  It’s about designer genes, first love, Christmas trees, and saving the planet. It was reprinted in Celestial Beans.

The Fifth Sun was the lead story in the anthology, The Age of Reason.  The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl spins a tale of creating and destroying the world.

© Rosemary Claire Smith 2012-2024. The material on this website is copyrighted and may not be used without the author’s consent.

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