 Irvine first gained attention with his Locus Award-winning 2002 novel "A Scattering of Jades" (which also won the Crawford Award in 2003) and the stories that would form the 2003 collection "Unintended Consequences".He has also published the Grail Quest novel "One King, One Soldier" (2004), and the World War II-era historical fantasy "The Narrows" (2005).He released a collection of thirteen short stories called "Pictures from an Expedition" in 2006.