His most recent novels are the diptych "Godplayers" (2005) (selected in the annual Recommended Reading List from "Locus"), and "K-Machines" (2006) (winner of the 2007 Aurealis Award for year's best sf novel), and, with Rory Barnes, a comic "noir" crime novel, "I'm Dying Here: A Comedy of Bad Manners" (2009), first released in very limited numbers as "I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question?" (2007). With his wife, Barbara Lamar, he wrote the near-future sf thriller "Post Mortal Syndrome," serialised on line by "Cosmos" magazine (2007). He edited a book of original essays on the far future, "Year Million" (2008), which was favorably reviewed by "Nature," the "Wall Street Journal," etc. In 2010 "Climbing Mount Implausible," a collection of mostly early stories, interspersed with memoir commentary, appeared from Borgo/Wildside Books, as did (in 2011) "Embarrass My Dog," a collection of mostly early articles on sex, religion, and politics, framed by commentary recalling life in the 1960s and 1970s.