Author Archives: John Walters

Painsharing and Other Stories by John Walters – Now Available in Paperback!

My second short story collection, “Painsharing and Other Stories” is now available in paperback through Amazon.  You can order it here.  It’s still available for Kindle here and in other electronic formats at Smashwords here. Here’s the description from the … Continue reading

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Standing Up to Intimidation

I’m a pushover.  I have been all my life.  I don’t easily get feisty and quarrelsome, and I don’t easily question what others tell me.  I want to believe that they are sincere; I want to believe that people naturally … Continue reading

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My Emancipation Proclamation

I ruminate how to start.  I want to say it succinctly but I want to say it all.  The only way is to dive in. I am a writer.  I have been a writer since I was about seventeen years … Continue reading

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Short Story Author Highlight: Jack London

Jack London was an amazingly prolific writer.  Every day he got up early and before he did anything else he fulfilled his quota of words, which varied between one thousand and one thousand five hundred.  He wrote novels, autobiography, social … Continue reading

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Book Review: Dawn by Elie Wiesel

This book came to me by accident.  I was visiting the library at Anatolia High School in Thessaloniki one day and, as is occasionally the case, there was a pile of books on a table outside the door – books … Continue reading

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Loneliness versus Solitude

You can’t write about a subject like this unless you are going through it, or have gone through it.  And why should I be lonely?  I am surrounded by people.  I am almost never physically alone.  Lately, nonetheless, I have … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Best from Orbit edited by Damon Knight

“Orbit” was a series of anthologies of original speculative fiction stories edited by Damon Knight in the 60s and 70s.  His aim was to expand the genre and select literary stories that would avoid the stereotypical spaceships and ray guns … Continue reading

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Short Story Author Highlight: James Tiptree, Jr.

Most science fiction enthusiasts know that James Tiptree, Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice Sheldon, an employee of the CIA who killed her ailing husband and then herself back in 1987.  A brilliant biography called “James Tiptree Jr.: The Double … Continue reading

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Book Review: Henry Miller: The Paris Years by Brassai

“Brassai” is the pseudonym of Gyula Halasz, a Hungarian photographer who lived in Paris at the same time as Miller did, in the 1930s.  Henry Miller was quite enamored of his photos depicting the streets of Paris, which Brassai published … Continue reading

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Book Review: This Immortal by Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny exploded onto the science fiction scene back in the mid-sixties.  Two of his stories won Nebula Awards in 1966, the first year they were ever given:  “He Who Shapes” won the Nebula for best novella, and “The Doors … Continue reading

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