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See below for published work.

Narrative Design

Darkendore: Knight Defender (writer) - Tales: Choose Your Own Story - Serialized Interactive Gamebook, 2023, Branching Narrative



Dreamwalkers (writer) - Tales: Choose Your Own Story - Serialized Interactive Gamebook, 2023
Branching Narrative



Darkendore (writer) - Tales: Choose Your Own Story - Serialized Interactive Gamebook, 2022
Branching Narrative



        Cat's Claw (writer) - Tales: Choose Your Own Story - Serialized Interactive Gamebook, 2022
Branching Narrative




Project Nightingale (contributor)Tales - Serialized Interactive Gamebook, 2022
Branching Narrative



        Various Projects (writer) - Big Fish Games - Interactive Narratives, 2017-2020



Edited Fiction
  1. A Hand of Knaves (Co-edited with Leife Shallcross, CSFG Publishing, Sept 2018)

Published Short Fiction
  1. Salt City Blue (Behind the Mask, Meerkat Press, May 2017)
  2. Future Me, Future Her (Dimension6 / SciFi Film Festival Highly Recommended SciFi Short Story, November 2015)
  3. Rust Titan (The Never Never Land, CSFG Publishing, October 2015)
  4. Perfect Kills (Aurealis #83, July 2015)
  5. New York, New York (A Killer Among Demons, Dark Prints Press, May 2013) “...ten new stories mixing crime and horror. The strongest are by Angela Slatter, Chris Large, Willaim Meikle, and S. J. Dawson.” – Best Horror of the Year 6. Ellen Datlow ed.
  6. Girl Finds Key (Next, CSFG Publishing, April 2013) Honourable Mention Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 - Twelfth Planet Press
  7. The Red House (Aurealis #58, March 2013) “Filled to the brim with vivid description, anger, blood and hate... Large is a writer I intend to follow.” – Tangent
  8. One Night at the Cherry (Damnation and Dames, Ticonderoga Publications,  April 2012) “…the excellent One Night at the Cherry by Chris Large, where a zombie detective has some problems with a genuinely dangerous doll.” – Thirteen O’clock
  9. The Year We Killed the People Who Pretend to be Statues (AntipodeanSF #160, October 2011)
  10. Weapons of Self Destruction (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #51, June 2011)
  11. This Alien Landscape (AntipodeanSF #155, May 2011)
  12. MoanAdrone's M-70 Likes it on Top (AntipodeanSF #153, March 2011)
  13. Captain Thunder's Last Stand (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #49, Dec 2010)

Articles 
  1. Cartogramancy: The Science of Fantasy Map Making, with Russell Kirkpatrick (Aurealis #99, April 2017)
  2. Imperial Imprecision (Aurealis Xpress, Oct, 2014)
  3. When a Jedi Should Think Twice About Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight (Aurealis #74, Sept 2014)
  4. The Tectonics of the Misty Mountains (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #51, June 2011)

Interviews
  1. The Entertainer: An Interview with Raymond E. Feist Part 2 (Aurealis #113, August 2018)
  2. The Entertainer: An Interview with Raymond E. Feist Part 1 (Aurealis #112, July 2018)
  3. Blazing New Trails: An Interview with C. S. Pacat (Aurealis #106, November 2017)
  4. The Rewards of Persistence: An Interview with Leife Shallcross (Aurealis #103, August 2017)
  5. The History and Future of Aurealis: An Interview with Dirk Strasser (Aurealis #100, May 2017)
  6. Interview with Jennifer Brandes Hepler (Aurealis #95, October 2016)
  7. Interview with Francesca Haig (Aurealis #93, August 2016)
  8. Interview with Jennifer Fallon Part 2 (Aurealis #91, June 2016)
  9. Interview with Jennifer Fallon Part 1 (Aurealis #90, May 2016)
  10. Interview with John Flanagan (Aurealis #89, April 2016)
  11. Interview with Trudi Canavan (Aurealis #87, February 2016)
  12. Interview with Ann Leckie (Aurealis #86, November 2015)
  13. Interview with Thoraiya Dyer (Aurealis #84, September 2015)
  14. Interview with John Scalzi Part 2 (Aurealis #82, July 2015)
  15. Interview with John Scalzi Part 1 (Aurealis #81, June 2015)
  16. Interview with Shane Abbess (Aurealis #79, April 2015)



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