Location: United States
Member Since: June 27, 2018
William Ledbetter
Biography
William Ledbetter is a Nebula Award winning author with more than sixty speculative fiction stories and non-fiction articles published in markets such as Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Escape Pod, Baen.com, Daily SF, the SFWA blog, and Ad Astra. His new novel "Level Five" is available from Audible Originals.
He's been a space and technology geek since childhood and spent most of his non-writing career in the aerospace and defense industry. He administers the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award contest for Baen Books and the National Space Society, is a member of SFWA, the National Space Society of North Texas, a Launch Pad Astronomy workshop graduate, and is the Science Track coordinator for the Fencon convention. He lives near Dallas with his wife, a needy dog and two spoiled cats.
He's been a space and technology geek since childhood and spent most of his non-writing career in the aerospace and defense industry. He administers the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award contest for Baen Books and the National Space Society, is a member of SFWA, the National Space Society of North Texas, a Launch Pad Astronomy workshop graduate, and is the Science Track coordinator for the Fencon convention. He lives near Dallas with his wife, a needy dog and two spoiled cats.
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Books
A Lone Star In The Sky: A Future Classics Anthology (Volume Two)
by Melanie Fletcher & William Ledbetter
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 97,900.
Language:
English.
Published: June 21, 2018.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
A man sent to stop the world’s first zero-G birth. A deep space pilot who runs headlong into Einstein’s theory of relativity. A synthetic human fighting for survival in a world that sees her as disposable. All these stories and more can be found in A LONE STAR IN THE SKY, the second anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers' group of North Dallas.
Tales From a Lone Star: A Future Classics Anthology (Volume One)
by Melanie Fletcher & William Ledbetter
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 54,090.
Language:
English.
Published: September 4, 2013.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Tales from a Lone Star is the first anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers group of North Dallas. Featuring fourteen stories from members such as Nebula nominee Jake Kerr ("The Old Equations") and 2012 Writers of the Future winner William Ledbetter ("The Rings of Mars"), Tales from a Lone Star ranges from near future SF to a post-apocalyptic world run by zombies.