Lou Antonelli Books in Order

This collection reimagines Texas through alternate histories, science fiction riffs, and tall-tale weirdness. Rockets, demons, Bigfoot, saucers, and abandoned supercolliders all fit inside Antonelli's version of the Lone Star State.

An expanded collection of Antonelli's short fiction, this book moves from speculative Texas to Mars, asteroids, and deep space. It is a good snapshot of the range he found within alternate history and offbeat science fiction.

A slippery alternate-history short built around political gamesmanship and misdirection. Antonelli turns a small shift in events into a larger puzzle about power, perception, and who is really in control.

A slim collection that tips its hat to classic science fiction while keeping Antonelli's taste for strange turns and off-kilter ideas. It is a nostalgic title, but the stories still look for fresh angles.

Part memoir, part writing notebook, and part story collection, this book follows Antonelli's attempts to break into science fiction through his correspondence with editor Gardner Dozois. It shows rejection, revision, persistence, and the slow work of learning the field.

This compact collaboration with Edward Morris collects speculative fiction by both writers. The pieces work like a duet, moving between science fiction and fantasy while letting two distinct voices play off each other.

On the planet Ymilas, a chaplain faces a strange first when a human dies and lingers as a ghost. To help the dead man move on, he joins an alien pilgrimage that turns theology into lived experience.

This collection gathers alternate and secret history stories about airships, hidden civilizations, shifting religions, and worlds that took one wrong turn. It is one of the clearest entry points into Antonelli's short fiction.

General Santa Anna, a device that looks like a magic lamp, and future technology collide in this playful frontier alternate history. Antonelli treats the djinn idea as science in disguise, and has fun with the consequences.

Antonelli imagines a Texas where steam power helps launch a rocket far earlier than history allowed. It is a brisk alternate-history tale, and the story that marked his first professional science fiction sale.

This short science-fantasy piece mixes myth with laboratory thinking, then lets the idea unravel in unsettling ways. Antonelli takes an old name from legend and gives it a modern speculative twist.

Antonelli folds folklore and modern unease together in a tense short piece about what happens when the JuJu Man enters ordinary life. Fear spreads quickly, and the real danger may be what people start believing.

An alternate-history novel set in a Cold War and beatnik age that never quite happened. Antonelli reworks mid-century politics and culture into a long, offbeat what-if with a distinctly retro feel.

While waiting for a flight, a traveler hears an old airline man's tale about a white airship that arrived from somewhere impossible. The story opens into a clever alternate-history puzzle about parallel worlds and missed turns in the past.

A strange message discovered on the last roll of newsprint pulls everyday journalism toward the uncanny. It is brief, eerie, and rooted in a newspaperman's eye for detail and unease.

Professor Malakoff unveils a strange telegraph that promises communication beyond normal limits. Antonelli turns the invention into a brisk speculative yarn about discovery, danger, and the messages people may regret receiving.

When global warming makes Dallas hard to live in, the question becomes where people go next. Antonelli turns climate pressure into a sideways Texas tale with displacement, uneasy choices, and a sharp speculative edge.

Set against an alternate-history version of apartheid, this story uses speculative ideas to probe power, identity, and belonging. Antonelli keeps the focus on how systems shape daily life, and who gets trapped by them.

Miners crack open an ancient artifact and unleash trouble they barely understand. Antonelli blends folklore, buried history, and a dose of dark humor in a compact tale about the cost of disturbing old things.

A newspaper editor follows a scientist back into the unfinished ruins of the Texas Superconducting Super Collider for one last experiment. What they awaken turns abandoned infrastructure into something far stranger.

Secret agents confront Dave Shuster over a graveyard photographed on Mars, and he answers with a story about a different Cold War, a joint Mars colony, and a fight against a rogue industrialist in a world full of realistic androids.