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Henry Melton

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born
December 25, 1949

gender
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member since
July 2009


About this author

Henry Melton is often on the road with his wife Mary Ann, a nature photographer and frequently captivated by the places he visits. This has inspired his latest series of novels; Small Towns, Big Ideas. Formerly a programmer specializing in database work and web design, he pioneered Internet use for a Fortune 500 company until the tech bubble collapse. In the early days of home computers, he created one of the earliest commercial word processing programs, and built his own computers back when that meant wiring the chips together by hand to his own schematics.
Henry's short fiction has been published in many magazines and anthologies, most frequently in ANALOG. Catacomb, published in DRAGON magazine, is considered a classic, and by the continu...more


I had always supposed that when I wrote a series of books, that they would be a series, that is, one book after the other in chronological order. It hasn’t worked out that way for me. In fact, it never has.

My most populated series, Small Towns, Big Ideas, is more a collection than a series. Each book is independent and stand-alone. STBI is more a marketing label than the name of a broader story... read more »
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Published on April 24, 2012 12:17
Average rating: 3.80 · 56 ratings · 12 reviews · 15 distinct works
Golden Girl
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Pixie Dust
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Follow That Mouse
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Emperor Dad
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Falling Bakward
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Roswell or Bust
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Extreme Makeover
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Henry's Stories: Volume 1
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With the DOJ’s efforts to remake the ebook marketplace, I thought it would be a good idea for me to take a good look at the marketplaces I do busin... read more »
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The Nighttime Is the Right Tim by Bill Crider
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I've been wishing for all of Bill Crider's works to show up on e-books, so when this short story collection appeared, I had to plop down my $2.99 and download the epub version. It's available from Crossroad Press and you can choose epub/PDF/mobi/kind...more
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date: December 04, 2010 04:00PM
location: The Book Box, 15803 Windermere Dr., Pflugerville, TX, The United States
description: I'll be there with all my books and looking forward to meeting everyone.
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