David Ira Cleary

Welcome to my little piece of cyberspace.

I'm a technical writer, sometime computer programmer, and author of twenty-seven published short stories as well a handful or two of yet unpublished novels. Some of what I write is science fiction, and some of what I write is just strange. One of my stories, "All Our Sins Forgotten," was adapted in 1998 into an episode of the Sci-fi Channel's series Welcome to Paradox.


My latest news is that my story "The Case of the Lost Busker" has been published in the September\October 2026 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.


Publications   A Sample Short Story


Older News!

My novella "My Year as a Boy", originally published in the Jan\Feb 2023 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, has been selected for inclusion in The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Fifth Annual Collection," slated for publication in October 2024. 


My beautiful and athletic wife Cheryl ran the Oakland Marathon on March 25th. She ran the marathon in a very respectable four and a half hours, which is very good considering how hilly the course is.




I have a huge novella in the current issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: "Living in the Eighties." You can find it in the April/May 2012 issue of the magazine. If they ever gave out prizes for having the longest stories in a magazine or an anthology, I think my house would collapse under the weight of the accumulated trophies.



I got married! Read more about this at:
Wedding Information



Below is a picture of me with my cat, Quincey. Quincey fetches, bites, and serves me as a constant source of inspiration. Note also the alternative newsweekly I'm holding, to establish my credentials as an Artist. Unfortunately, Quincey passed away a while ago, and I  must content myself with a brother-sister pair of kittens,  who are awfully damn cute, but seem on a mission to scalp and/or flay me.



If you'd like to hire me to write some technical documentation for you, or you are yearning to have me write a story for your anthology, or you'd just like to shoot the breeze, you can contact me at my gmail address.