J.

by William Sanders

About the AuthorWilliam Sanders was born in 1942 in
Arkansas. After a hitch in the army, he worked variously as a musician,
construction worker, preacher, encyclopedia salesman, and dishwasher at
the New York Stock Exchange, turning to sports writing in the early
1970s and then, in 1988, emerging on the SF scene with the critically
acclaimed alternate-history satire Journey to Fusang.

J.
is his nineteenth published book. His short fiction has appeared in major
magazines and anthologies. His work has been nominated for major
awards including the Nebula and the Hugo.

He lives in Tahlequah,
Oklahoma, in a small rock house, with his wife Phyllis and a remarkably
insolent cat named Billie. When not writing, he fools with old motorcycles
and occasionally dances at powwows.

Hardcover

First published July 1, 2001

About the author

this is William^^^Sanders

William Sanders served with the US Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War. He is the author of more than 20 published books and many stories and articles; his short fiction has been nominated for major awards, including the Hugo and Nebula, and has twice won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

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Reviews

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

William Sanders' gift for naturalistic genre storytelling rivals Stephen King's. His plots are compulsive, his people seem real, and he treats the fantastic elements with a sense of ironic detachment that makes the strange seem... not mundane, but regular, orderly — expected.

I'm on a years-long quest to read Sanders' spottily published back catalog, and found J. in the recesses of the NYPL's ebook offerings. I wasn't as excited for it as for some of his others, but I fell in love immediately. He's just damn good.

In a different timeline, Guy Ritchie would have made a kickass film of J., about three different versions of Chloe Sevigny, who would have thanked Sanders in her Oscar acceptance speech. In a different, better timeline, Sanders would have gotten a smidgen of the success he deserved.

(All of this said, the story stops kind of abruptly — endings are hard!)

[EG · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great read. It is about 3 very different women, who are in fact the very same person, but in different realities. And a mysterious event that ends up drawing them all together to solve a mystery about themselves, and how they are able to cross the boundaries of reality and meet in the first place!