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William Preston

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The first writer I stole from was Ray Bradbury, whose poetic prose, rural details, and wild inventiveness made me see what was possible in fiction. Later, writers such as Joyce, O'Connor, and Updike made me see what else was possible--and for a long time, I stayed away from science fiction and fantasy, at least in my own writing, dabbling in it only as a reader.

I studied fiction writing in college (though I don't think I learned much). When work and family made fiction-writing difficult, I shifted to poetry, and I managed to sell a few things over the years. Then I wrote a Bradburian (at least in my mind) science fiction story, "You Will Go to the Moon," se ...more

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Average rating: 4.63 · 90 ratings · 13 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Helping Them Take the Old Man Down and Clockworks 4.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unearthed 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key 4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vox ex Machina & A Crisis for Mr. Lion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars