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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Memoir of my hippy travel days in the mid-70s.
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
A thrilling novel of time travel, alien invasion, and mysterious portals -
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories The Relocation Blues
A memoir of life's transitional experiences Adriana’s Family
A novel about alien contact.
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories.
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
An aging science fiction writer abandons his apartment and hits the road full time.
Invasive Procedures: Stories
A collection of science fiction stories.
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
A compilation of four novellas comprising the One Thousand series. Hippies and benevolent aliens pursue psychotic killers.
After the Fireflood
After the Earth's surface is obliterated in an apocalyptic firestorm, human survivors from the moon and outer colonies attempt to rebuild.
Caliban’s Children
Humans must ally themselves with true beasts to overcome a dark power that morphs humans into animals and binds them to its will.
The Fantasy Book Murders
Surreal and deadly hunt for a serial killer.
Opting Out and Other Departures
A collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories about wanderers and unlikely heroes.
Sunflower: A Novel
A woman's odyssey, first through America and then across continents, in the dark, post-Altamont days of the early 70s.
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Memoir of my return to the States after thirty-five years overseas.
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
A collection of fantasy short stories.
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Essays on a life-long quest for voice, inspiration and excellence in writing.
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
A collection of book reviews and essays on books, literature, and writing.
The One Thousand: A Novella
Science fiction thriller. A man possessed by alien entities recruits convicts for a murderous rampage.
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
Sequel to The One Thousand. A fellowship of alien-possessed psychopaths throw a party at which they plan to slaughter all the guests.
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
Sequel to The One Thousand Books One and Two. In southern Europe, the Team of Seven hunt a busload of alien-possessed psychopaths intent on unleashing a deadly pathogen in a major city.
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
Fourth novella in The One Thousand Series. The Team of Seven finally confront the alien-possessed psychopaths they have been hunting.
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
A memoir of my life in Greece.
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
A hippy girl's adventures in a wilderness commune, Haight/Ashbury, and Woodstock.
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
A collection of dark science fiction stories.
Love Children: A Novel
Young people raised by aliens return to Earth to seek their parents.
Painsharing and Other Stories
A collection of science fiction stories.
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
A collection of science fiction stories mostly set in India.
Author Archives: John Walters
A Halloween Literary Treat
In honor of upcoming Halloween, I wanted to highlight the weirdest, most frightening and horrific thing I have ever written. Numerous short stories might qualify for the shortlist, but among the longer works I think that The One Thousand series … Continue reading
Book Review: 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin
This entertaining history of the 1929 stock market crash reads like a thriller, even though as readers we know how it is all going to turn out. Sorkin breathes life into his characters; he makes us get caught up in … Continue reading
Book Review: The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
This is the third book I have read by Richard Holmes, the others being The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science and Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer. In both these tomes … Continue reading
Notes from a Senior Resource Fair
All right, I’ll admit it, damn it: I’m getting old. I don’t have the stamina I used to have, when I would take off on open-ended globe-circling adventures, and I am being treated for two types of cancer. Even worse, … Continue reading
Book Review: Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life by Leonard Mlodinow
This is an unusual book. Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his groundbreaking work in, among other things, quantum electrodynamics and nanotechnology; he assisted with the development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project and was … Continue reading
Book Review: Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling by Frank Miller
Frank Miller is primarily known as a graphic artist; since the 1970s he has worked in the DC and Marvel universes with such characters as Daredevil, Elektra, and Batman as The Dark Knight. His original titles include Ronin, 300, and … Continue reading
Reading on the Road
When you set out on the road as a perennial nomad, your pack on your back or your duffle bag slung over your shoulder, much of your time is taken up with day to day decisions and activities such as … Continue reading
Book Review: How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words by Sophia Smith Galer
I cannot say, despite my decades of worldwide wanderings, that I have become any sort of language virtuoso. I would pick up the local languages the best I could while passing through, and due to prolonged stays in the appropriate … Continue reading
Book Review: Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography by J.G. Ballard
I first became acquainted with the stories of J.G. Ballard in the early 1970s during my first infatuation with science fiction, specifically with the cutting-edge literary work referred to as the New Wave. Back then, his shorter works appeared mainly … Continue reading
Book Review: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
I don’t know how this book managed to avoid my radar for all this time. After all, I am a big fan of the surrealistic fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges. In fact, Invisible Cities reminds me of some of the … Continue reading
