Eric Schaller's fiction has appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fantasy: Best of the Year, The Time Traveler's Almanac, SciFiction, Postscripts, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Polyphony, New Genre, Shadows & Tall Trees, and others. Schaller's stories are influenced in part by his studies in the biological sciences, their inspiration, and the unease that originates in a world populated by many organisms-including humans-dependent on but also working at cross-purposes with each other.