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Book Review: The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

Connie Willis didn’t appear on the science fiction scene until the early eighties, long after I had stopped reading much in the genre.  I didn’t read any of her work, therefore, until a couple of decades later.  Right away, soon … Continue reading

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Book Update

Generally I confine my blog to essays, book reviews, and so on, but occasionally a bit of self promotion is not amiss.  As I prepared to make my grand departure from Greece for the United States, knowing I would be … Continue reading

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Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales – Now Available!

My new story collection, “Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales” is now available in an electronic edition in the Amazon Kindle Store, and will soon be available in a print edition.  Here is an excerpt from the Afterword: We don’t ever seem … Continue reading

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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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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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Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

There are clues hidden in the first few paragraphs of this novel as to what will follow, but they are cryptic, understandable only in hindsight after you have made it almost to the end.  Therefore, to me at least, the … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 26th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

I have a confession to make.  Though I write a lot of science fiction and fantasy, I read very little of it.  Many years ago I existed almost solely on a diet of SF and F, but not anymore.  First … Continue reading

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