William Barton

William Barton was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1950, during the first year of the Korean War, and not long after Edgar Rice Burroughs left for Barsoom, and it was all downhill from there. He grew up in Marumsco Village, one of those wonderfully empty-looking suburbs concealing strange nooks and crannies the developers had failed to bulldoze under, places that became a host of imaginary worlds. Having more or less grown up, he tried college, flunked out, tried again, flunked out again, married a few times, at least one child, etc. Became a marine machinery mechanic (nuclear submarines were involved), quit that at the dawn of the modern computing era to become what's called a software architect, and... well. Somewhere along the way, fell back into those imaginary worlds that were so much more satisfactory than real life. His first novel, Hunting On Kunderer, was published in 1973, followed by dozens more novels and short stories over the ensuing years, including Hugo Award finalist “Age of Aquarius” and Acts of Conscience, winner of a Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Award. His latest project is the Venusworld series, Crimson Darkness, White Sea Crossings, and In Velvet Fog, with more to come, the story he first dreamed of telling while lurking in the woods near Marumsco Village a half-century ago. Kaor.