Steven L. Peck bibliography

This is a list of literary works by Steven L. Peck (born July 25, 1957), an American evolutionary biologist, poet, and novelist. His academic publications are not included in this bibliography.

Fiction

Novels and Novellas

Short Story Collections

Selected Short Stories

• "Water, Mud, and Insects" (1995, The Friend)
• "The Flaw in the Lord Harrington Scenario" (2002, HMS Beagle)
• "The Parable of the Peccary" (2008, By Common Consent)
• "Let the Mountains Tremble for Adoniha Has Fallen" (2011, Monsters and Mormons anthology)
• "Stratton Yellows" (2011, Warp and Weave)
• "Question Four" (2012, Jabberwocky)
• "A Classical Haunting" (2012, Lissette's Tales of Imagination #5)
• "Do I Tell Her?" (2012, Daily Science Fiction)
• "Dragonfly Miscalculations" (2012, The Journal of Unlikely Etymology)
• "Avek, Who Is Distributed" (2012, Mormon Lit Blitz)
• "When the Bishop Started Killing Dogs" (2012, Mormon Lit Blitz)
• "Kayden Abernathy's Journal Pages 35–37 Partially Recovered from the House Fire 6/21/2013" (2013, Mormon Lit Blitz)
• "How the Mother of Vampiro Rojo de Santanás Died at the Hand of the Ethicless Thing" (2013, Silverthought Press)
• "Emergence" (2013, Encounters #5)
• "The Silence of the River" (2013, Quantum Realities)
• "Plague Ship" (2013, Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars)
• "Demode" (2013, Nature Physics)
• "A Strange Report From Church Archives" (2013, Irreantum)
• "Two-Dog Dose" (2014, Dialogue; won 2014 AML award for short fiction)
• "The Runners" (2014, Sunstone)
• "Workers Celebrate Labor Day" (2014, By Common Consent)
• "Pinewood Derby Unleashed" (2014, By Common Consent)
• "Down Courthouse Wash" (2015, Perihelion)
• "Tales from Pleasant Grove" (2015, Every Day Fiction)
• "Escape of Pleasant Grove's Turkey Shoot Flock" (2015, By Common Consent)
• "Harbingers" (2016, Dark Lane Anthology, Volume Three)
• "Incomplete Slaughter" (2016, The Colored Lens)
• "Abraham and Thomas: Doubt" (2016, As Iron Sharpens Iron anthology)
• "Bishop Johansen Rescues a Lost Soul: A Tale of Pleasant Grove" (2016, 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)
• "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 anthology)
• "The Sacrifice" (2019, Dialogue)
• "Angels of Pleasant Grove" (2021, A Desolating Sickness: Stories of Pandemic)

Poetry

Poetry Collection

• Incorrect Astronomy (2013, Aldrich Press)

Selected Poems

• "Winton Night Walks" (1988, Dialogue)
• Fly Fishing in Middle Earth (1992, American Tolkien Society)
• "The Golden Bough Breaks and Down Comes Baby, Cradle and All" (1992, Bellowing Ark)
• "Algonquin Physics" (1992, Bellowing Ark)
• "Reflections of Stellar Ecology" (1993, BYU Studies)
• "Advice on Correct Astronomy" (1995, BYU Studies)
• "The Antlion" (2007, Glyphs III)
• "Sage" (2008, Red Rock Review)
• "The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man" (2010, Tales of the Talisman)
• "Winter Gifts" (2010, Victorian Violet Press Poetry Journal)
• "Bees" (2010, Creative Nonfiction)
• "The Slaying of Trickster Gods" (2010, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "Courthouse Wash on a January Morning" (2010, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "Pond Ducks" (2010, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "A Patchwork" (2011, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "String Theory" (2011, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "Her Father's Critique" (2011, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "Bobcat" (2011, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "The Complete Text of the First Ten Volumes of Dr. Fleckwain's Very, Very Short Steampunk Novels" (2011, The Pedestal Magazine)
• "Love Floats Pale and White" (2011, Fire in the Pasture anthology)
• "Walks the Ape Warder" (2012, Silver Blade Magazine)
• "Temptations in the Desert" (2012, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "The Steam Wolves Hunt" (2013, Abyss & Apex)
• "As Nature Beckons to the Desolate Machine" (2014, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "Eden's Cur" (2018, NewMyths.com)
• "How Do We Make Sense of What Will Be When We Hold Remnants of What Once Was?" (2019, Mormon Lit Blitz)
• "Decreation" (Fall/Winter 2019, Cold Mountain Review; with artist Jackie Leishman)
• "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

Books

• Science: The Key to Theology, Volume One: Preliminaries (2017, BCC Press)

Selected Articles and Essays

• "An Ecologist's View of Latter-Day Saint Culture and the Environment" (2006, Religious Studies Center)
• "My Madness" (2008, Dialogue)
• "America adds a shameful chapter to the history of torture" (2008, The Salt Lake Tribune)
• "Intelligent Design fails as a pretense to science that tries to set religion and evolution at odds" (2008, The Salt Lake Tribune)
• "Science Suffers When Getting a Grant Becomes the Goal" (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" (2010, Dialogue)
• "The Current Philosophy of Consciousness Landscape: Where Does LDS Thought Fit?" (2011, Dialogue)
• "Crossing Boundaries, Part One" (2011, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "Crossing Boundaries, Part Two" (2011, Wilderness Interface Zone)
• "Why Nature Matters: A Special Issue of Dialogue on Mormonism and the Environment" (2011, Dialogue; special issue edited by Peck)
• "Reverencing Creation" (2012, Sunstone)
• "Who Will Do the Science if Western Land Grab is Successful?" (2013, Deseret News)
• "Five Wagers on What Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe Will Be Like" (2015, Analog Science Fiction and Fact)
• "Additions to St. Hildegard's 'Physica'" (2017, Prairie Schooner)
• "Trajectories in the Evolution of Mormon Studies on Faith and Science" (2019, Mormon Studies Review)
• "Each Atom an Agent?" (2021, BYU Studies Quarterly)

Blogs

• By Common Consent (contributor)
• Mormon Organon (contributor)