# Steven L. Peck bibliography

This is a list of literary works by Steven L. Peck. His academic publications are not included, but can be found on his curriculum vitae.

## Fiction
### Novels and short story collections

| Title | Type of publication | Time of first publication | Publisher of first edition | Unique identifier | Full text link |
| The Gift of the King's Jeweler | Novella | 2003 | Covenant Communications | ISBN 9781591562771 | archive.org |
| The Scholar of Moab | Novel | 2011 | Torey House Press | ISBN 9781937226022 | |
| The Rifts of Rime | Novel | 2012 | Sweetwater Books. | ISBN 9781599559674 | |
| A Short Stay in Hell | Novella | 2012 | Strange Violin Editions | ISBN 9780983748427 | |
| Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats | Novel | 2017 | Roundfire Books | ISBN 9781782798644 | |
| The Tragedy of King Leere, Goathered of the La Sals | Novel | 2019 | BCC Press | ISBN 978-1948218016 | |
| Wandering Realities: Mormonish Short Fiction | Collection | 2015 | Zarahemla Books | ISBN 978-0988323346 | |
| Tales from Pleasant Grove | Collection | 2018 | self-published | ISBN 9781986604239 | |
| Heike's Void | Novel | 2022 | BCC Press | ISBN 9781948218559 | |

### Short stories

This list does not include stories that were first published in Wandering Realities or Tales from Pleasant Grove. "The Problem" won an honorable mention in the 2010 Brookie and D.K. Brown fiction contest and was first published in Wandering Realities.
| Title | Time of first publication | Publication | Notes | Full text link | Citation |
| "Water, Mud, and Insects" | 1995 | The Friend | | churchofjesuschrist.org | |
| "The Flaw in the Lord Harrington Scenario" | 2002 | HMS Beagle | | | |
| "The Parable of the Peccary" | 2008 | By Common Consent | | By Common Consent | |
| "Let the Mountains Tremble for Adoniha Has Fallen" | 2011 | Monsters and Mormons (anthology) | collected in Wandering Realities | | |
| "Stratton Yellows" | 2011 | Warp and Weave | won first place in the Warp and Weave science fiction competition | | |
| "Question Four" | 2012 | Jabberwocky | collected in Wandering Realities | Jabberwocky | |
| "A Classical Haunting" | 2012 | Lissette's Tales of Imagination #5 | | | |
| "Do I Tell Her?" | 2012 | Daily Science Fiction | | Daily Science Fiction | |
| "Dragonfly Miscalculations" | 2012 | The Journal of Unlikely Etymology | | web.archive.org | |
| "Avek, Who Is Distributed" | 2012 | Mormon Lit Blitz | Collected in Wandering Realities. Also collected in Mormon Lit Blitz Anthology: Volume 1: The First Five Years 2012–2016 | Mormon Lit Blitz | . |
| "When the Bishop Started Killing Dogs" | 2012 | Mormon Lit Blitz | collected in Wandering Realities and Mormon Lit Blitz Anthology: Volume 1: The First Five Years 2012–2016 | lit.mormonartist.net | |
| Kayden Abernathy's Journal Pages 35–37 Partially Recovered from the House Fire 6/21/2013 | 2013 | Mormon Lit Blitz | collected in Mormon Lit Blitz Anthology: Volume 1: The First Five Years 2012–2016 | Mormon Midrashim | |
| "How the Mother of Vampiro Rojo de Santanás Died at the Hand of the Ethicless Thing" | 2013 | Silverthought press online | | web.archive.org | |
| "Emergence" | 2013 | Encounters #5 | | web.archive.org | |
| "The Silence of the River" | 2013 | Quantum Realities: A Journal of Speculative Fiction 2.2 | | | |
| "Plague Ship" | 2013 | Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars | | | |
| "Demode" | 2013 | Nature Physics | | web.archive.org | |
| "A Strange Report From Church Archives" | 2013 | Irreantum | won second place in the Irreantum fiction contest; collected in Wandering Realities | web.archive.org | |
| "Two-Dog Dose" | 2014 | Dialogue | won the 2014 AML award for short fiction; collected in Wandering Realities | Dialogue | |
| "The Runners" | 2014 | Sunstone | collected in Wandering Realities | Sunstone | |
| "Workers Celebrate Labor Day" | 2014 | By Common Consent | | By Common Consent | |
| "Pinewood Derby Unleashed" | 2014 | By Common Consent | collected in Wandering Realities and Tales from Pleasant Grove as "The Best Pinewood Derby Ever" | By Common Consent | |
| "Down Courthouse Wash" | 2015 | Perihelion | | web.archive.org | |
| "Tales from Pleasant Grove" | 2015 | Every Day Fiction | collected in Tales from Pleasant Grove as "Jars of Fear" | web.archive.org | |
| "Escape of Pleasant Grove's Turkey Shoot Flock" | 2015 | By Common Consent | collected in Tales from Pleasant Grove as "Escape of the Turkey-Shoot Flock" | By Common Consent | |
| "Harbingers" | 2016 | Dark Lane Anthology, Volume Three | | | |
| "Incomplete Slaughter" | 2016 | The Colored Lens | | The Colored Lens | |
| "Abraham and Thomas: Doubt" | 2016 | As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture (anthology) | | | |
| "Bishop Johansen Rescues a Lost Soul: A Tale of Pleasant Grove" | 2016 | Dialogue | collected in Tales from Pleasant Grove | Dialogue | |
| "A Hell of a Life" | 2016 | Windows Into Hell (anthology) | | | |
| "At the End of the Eight Volume Epic: All I Want is a Warm Bath and a Good Scroll" | 2017 | The Centropic Oracle | | centropicoracle.com | |
| "She That Withheld the Knife" | 2017 | Available on Kindle | | |
| "A Strike to the Heart of the Cannon Lord" | 2018 | All Made of Hinges (anthology) | | | |
| "Does Plowman Heed the Mole's Cry?" | 2018 | Last Shot Fired: Midnight Writer's Anthology 2018 (anthology) | | | |
| "The Sacrifice" | 2019 | Dialogue | | Dialogue | |
| "Angels of Pleasant Grove" | 2021 | A Desolating Sickness: Stories of Pandemic | | A Desolating Sickness | |

### Poetry

| Title | Time of First Publication | Publication | Comments | Full text link |
| "Winton Night Walks" | 1988 | Dialogue | | JSTOR |
| Fly Fishing in Middle Earth | 1992 | American Tolkien Society | | |
| "The Golden Bough Breaks and Down Comes Baby, Cradle and All" | 1992 | Bellowing Ark | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | |
| "Algonquin Physics" | 1992 | Bellowing Ark | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | |
| "Reflections of Stellar Ecology" | 1993 | BYU Studies | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | byustudies.byu.edu |
| "Advice on Correct Astronomy" | 1995 | BYU Studies | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | byustudies.byu.edu |
| "The Antlion" | 2007 | Glyphs III: Poems and Stories of the Colorado Plateau | reprinted on Wilderness Interface Zone and collected in Incorrect Astronomy | Wilderness Interface Zone |
| "Sage" | 2008 | Red Rock Review | collected in Incorrect Astronomy and Fire in the Pasture | |
| "The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man" | 2010 | Tales of the Talisman | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | |
| "Winter Gifts" | 2010 | Victorian Violet Press Poetry Journal | collected in Incorrect Astronomy and Fire in the Pasture | |
| "Bees" | 2010 | Creative Nonfiction | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | |
| "The Slaying of Trickster Gods" | November 17, 2010 | Wilderness Interface Zone | collected in Incorrect Astronomy and Fire in the Pasture | web.archive.org |
| "Courthouse Wash on a January Morning" | December 7, 2010 | Wilderness Interface Zone | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | web.archive.org |
| "Pond Ducks" | December 8, 2010 | Wilderness Interface Zone | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | Wilderness Interface Zone |
| "A Patchwork" | August 8, 2011 | Wilderness Interface Zone | reprinted in Exponent II 31.2 and in Incorrect Astronomy | Wilderness Interface Zone |
| "String Theory" | April 22, 2011 | Wilderness Interface Zone | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | Wilderness Interface Zone |
| "Her Father's Critique" | April 26, 2011 | Wilderness Interface Zone | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | Wilderness Interface Zone |
| "Bobcat" | April 29, 2011 | Wilderness Interface Zone | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | Wilderness Interface Zone |
| "The Complete Text of the First Ten Volumes of Dr. Fleckwain's Very, Very Short Steampunk Novels" | 2011 | The Pedestal Magazine | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | web.archive.org |
| "Love Floats Pale and White" | 2011 | Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets (anthology) | | |
| "Walks the Ape Warder" | May 21, 2012 | Silver Blade Magazine | collected in Incorrect Astronomy | web.archive.org |
| "Temptations in the Desert" | May 21, 2012 | Wilderness Interface Zone | | web.archive.org |
| "The Steam Wolves Hunt" | March 31, 2013 | Abyss & Apex | | abyssapexzine.com |
| Incorrect Astronomy | 2013 | Aldrich Press | | |
| "As Nature Beckons to the Desolate Machine" | February 15, 2014 | Wilderness Interface Zone | | Wilderness Interface Zone |
| "Eden's Cur" | June 2018 | NewMyths.com 43 | | |
| "How Do We Make Sense of What Will Be When We Hold Remnants of What Once Was?" | 2019 | Mormon Lit Blitz | | lit.mormonartist.net |
| "Decreation" | Fall/Winter 2019 | Cold Mountain Review | with artist Jackie Leishman; same project, different poems | |
| "Decreation: Climate Change, Art, Science and Poetry" | 2020 | Whitefish Review | with artist Jackie Leishman | |
| "Decreation" | Fall 2020 | Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment | with artist Jackie Leishman | |

## Non-fiction

| Title | Type of publication | Time of first publication | Publisher | Full text link |
| Science: The Key to Theology, Volume One: Preliminaries | book | 2017 | BCC Press | |
| "The Current Philosophy of Consciousness Landscape: Where Does LDS Thought Fit?" | article | Summer 2011 | Dialogue | Dialogue |
| "An Ecologist's View of Latter-Day Saint Culture and the Environment" | article | 2006 | Religious Studies Center (RSC) | RSC |
| "My Madness" | personal essay | Summer 2008 | Dialogue | Dialogue |
| "America adds a shameful chapter to the history of torture" | op-ed | March 8, 2008 | The Salt Lake Tribune | The Salt Lake Tribune |
| "Intelligent Design fails as a pretense to science that tries to set religion and evolution at odds" | op-ed | May 10, 2008 | The Salt Lake Tribune | The Salt Lake Tribune |
| "Science Suffers When Getting a Grant Becomes the Goal" | article | 2008 | The Chronicle of Higher Education | |
| "Crawling Out of the Primordial Soup: A Step toward the Emergence of an LDS Theology Compatible with Organic Evolution" | article | Spring 2010 | Dialogue | Dialogue |
| "Crossing Boundaries, Part One" | personal essay | May 24, 2011 | Wilderness Interface Zone | web.archive.org |
| "Crossing Boundaries, Part Two" | personal essay | May 25, 2011 | Wilderness Interface Zone | web.archive.org |
| Why Nature Matters: A Special Issue of Dialogue on Mormonism and the Environment | intro to special issue that Peck edited for | Summer 2011 | Dialogue | Dialogue |
| "Reverencing Creation" | personal essay | June 25, 2012 | Sunstone | Sunstone |
| "Who Will Do the Science if Western Land Grab is Successful?" | op-ed | March 17, 2013 | Deseret News | Deseret News |
| "Five Wagers on What Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe Will Be Like" | "science fact" article | March 2015 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | |
| "Additions to St. Hildegard's 'Physica'" | creative non-fiction | June 1, 2017 | Prairie Schooner | mappingliteraryutah.org |
| "Trajectories in the Evolution of Mormon Studies on Faith and Science" | essay | 2019 | Mormon Studies Review | Scholarly Publishing Collective |
| "Each Atom an Agent?" | essay | 2021 | BYU Studies Quarterly | BYU Studies |

### Blogs

* By Common Consent
* Mormon Organon