Alan Baxter: Today's Guest in the F-SF Author Series

F-SF Guest Series Post: Australian Dark Fantasy Author Alan Baxter

Helen was very kind to invite me for a guest post on her blog today about why fantasy and science fiction rocks my world as a writer. That's easy – absolutely limitless scope for storytelling.

I grew up a voracious reader. From the age of three I would sit on my father's knee and read the paper with him. I didn't understand the news, but I loved the concept of the written word, and I could read. I soon graduated to books and discovered the magic of stories.

When I was very young I loved books like Runaway Ralph, Charlotte's Web, Stig Of The Dump. They were all, to some extent, fantasy stories. The constraints of non-genre fiction bored me.

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