Meet The Authors

Bruce Silton

"Space opera, a sub-genre of science fiction, has been in my blood since the age of 25 when I first read Frank Herbert’s Dune and E.E. Smith’s Lensman series. For the next 40 years, however, I was too busy as a fine arts painter and designer (visit www.brucesilton.com) to dedicate enough time to create my own stories. “All that changed when, as a senior citizen, I became an academic tutor at Clearwater Academy International (a top-notch private school in Clearwater, Florida) and fell in love with mathematics. Somehow, discovering math and teaching it to young people opened a hitherto locked door in my mind labeled “Deep-Space Adventures” and unleashed a flood of words that included the short stories in this “Book of Silton.” “At 72, I’m still happily employed tutoring young people and still making art, but now find time to write longish papers on fractions and dream of giant starships with faster-than-light drives – with me at the helm!"

Leslie Silton

“I was always a writer. I got my official start at an open poetry mic in Greenwich Village in the spring of 1964. Later that summer I got called out by a fellow poet and we had an open-air duel by the fountain in Washington Square in the Village. “Even though my formal education ended with a BFA in painting, I was always engaged by the written word. By now I’ve participated in over 150 open mic readings in New York City, Boston, Miami and Tampa, Florida. While I was visiting Paris, France in the summer of 1968 I joined the buskers by reading my English-language poems aloud to people strolling about in the Latin Quarter. They seemed to appreciate them despite the language barrier. “While I was in art college I started writing short stories. In the mid 1990’s, two of them were broadcast live, narrated by me (and recorded), on cable radio in Los Angeles. Later there were two more broadcasts. “Publication of my fiction started in 2006. “The Footprint” appeared in “Triumph of the Spirit”, an anthology produced by Artists For A Better World.. Then two stories, “The Emperor’s Gate” and “In Lewis Carroll Country” were posted on the website of British mystery writer, Neal James. “Out West A-Ways was selected by writer/editor Angie Merriam for her eclectic anthology “Intertwine”. In 2012, Nebula Rift magazine published my soft sci-fi story “One Moon Or Two.” “The September 2014 publication of The Gift Horse by Absolutely Amazing eBooks marked my debut as a full-fledged novelist.”

Michael A. B. Silton

"I began my career as an artist/writer well over fifty years ago. I graduated from the Art Institute of Boston in 1962. The summer of 1970 was spent doing an art residency program at Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting and a few years later, I was given a full scholarship to The School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, but I only took advantage of it for a short time. However, whatever adventures I had, I still kept making art. "My work as a writer began around 1964. I was making poetry and that led me to longer works. The need to write would come and go as my desire to make visual art took over more and more. But in the 1980's the need to write became very strong. By 1992, after moving to Los Angeles, the stories were pouring out. I couldn't stop. And by now I’ve written somewhere between 20-30 short stories. I love to write. I enjoy making people laugh. It makes me feel good and it makes them feel good and everybody wins. "There’s a lot of things you could say about my writing which would make this creative act a very academic subject, but in the immortal words of . . . myself . . . "It's probably too late to become the adopted son of Bruce Lee."

Leslie Silton,
Bruce Silton,
Michael Silton

Sci Fi Siblings Futuristic stories
by Leslie Silton,
Bruce Silton,
and Michael Silton
$3.99 ebook,
$14.95 paperback

Here a family of sci-fi fans has put ink to paper (or more accurately, pixel to computer screen) to write eight futuristic stories. Their imaginings run the gamut from space opera to character studies, stories set halfway across the White Cloud Galaxy as well as here on the HomePlanet. It's astonishing to find three diverse talents coexisting in one family … and in one unique anthology of science fiction entertainment. From "Welcome to Blaster School" to "One Moon or Two" to "Rolf The Roofer and Sadie Shapiro Play Bingo," we promise you'll want to read more.
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