“After about twelve minutes you’ll start getting hypothermic. Don’t stay down too long.”

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

March/April 2026

Original Art by Eldar Zakirov.

“None of it felt real until the first time someone gave up their seat for me.”

Aurealis #177
March 2025

Original art by Andrew Saltmarsh.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Aurealis Awards - Science Fiction Short Story category.

“Yesterday, they burned my eyes out. I say burned out, but I’m exaggerating, leading you into medieval hot-poker and ragged screams territory for effect. I wasn’t even chained down—I was lying on a comfy white couch underneath a ceiling mounted flatscreen, halfway through a 40-year-old episode of Seinfeld.”

Aurealis #166
November 2023

“Scott Steensma's 'One Man Army' is a laugh-out-loud blend of sardonic, melancholic and hopeful world-building.”

- Dirk Strasser

Aurealis #156
November 2022

Shortlisted for the 2022 Aurealis Awards - Science Fiction Short Story category.

Scott’s work is featured regularly in Australia’s longest running online sci-fi magazine. Download past issues or follow the link to hear him narate ‘Exit Interview’.

AntiSF 300th Issue and 25th Year Anniversary
August 2024

In a distant solar system, threatened by a voracious alien swarm, an interstellar courier company is getting a lot of very negative customer reviews…

Andromeda Spaceways Magazine
Issue 89
December 2022

It has been seven months since The Fragrant Flower’s last cleaning drone broke down. Whilst the Ship’s Captain dosen’t mind the build up of dishes and stray pubes, the Ship’s AI mind isn’t coping.

Etherea Magazine
September 2021

“In a pseudo-science-fiction universe, great pyramidal ships cross solar systems on pulsing tails of ancient Egyptian energy, leaping the void from star to star with the space-bending forces of Uri Geller drives.”

Blue Animal Literature

October 2020