Tales From a Lone Star: A Future Classics Anthology

by William Ledbetter (Editor), Melanie Fletcher (Editor), Jake Kerr

TALES FROM A LONE STAR is the first anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers group of North Dallas. Featuring fourteen stories from members such as Nebula nominee Jake Kerr ("The Old Equations") and 2012 Writers of the Future winner William Ledbetter ("The Rings of Mars"), TALES FROM A LONE STAR ranges from near future SF to a post-apocalyptic world run by zombies.

“Requiem in the Key of Prose” by Jake Kerr
“Teddy Bears and Tea Parties” by S. Boyd Taylor
“The Fowler’s Daughter” by Michelle Muenzler
“Last House, Lost House” by William Ledbetter
“The Ballad of Smokin’ Dad Harlan” by C.A. Rose
“Domalon-a-Ding-Dong” by Paul Lamarre
“Windows” by Gloria Oliver
“Le Gardien” by Melanie Fletcher
“A Distant Sound of Hammers” by S. Boyd Taylor
“The Tower” by Gloria Oliver
“They Gather in the Green” by Michelle Muenzler
“Worthy” by C.A. Rose
“A Touch of Ginger” by Melanie Fletcher
“Medic!” by William Ledbetter

162 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2013

About the author

William Ledbetter is a Nebula Award winning author with three novels and more than seventy speculative fiction short stories and non-fiction articles published in five languages, in publications such as Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Escape Pod and the SFWA blog.

"Level Five," "Level Six" and, "Level Seven" novels of his Killday Series are available from Audible Originals and soon in paper and e-book from Interstellar Flight Press.

Reviews

[Margaret · Rating 4 out of 5]

As stated in the title, this is an anthology. Short story collection. Written by members of a writing critique group in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. So, not surprisingly, I liked some of the stories better than other ones. Some were hard science fiction. Others were fantasy.

I strongly recommend the two stories by William Ledbetter, Melanie Fletcher, and Gloria Oliver.

I also have to admit here that I did not read ALL of the stories. I read the ones by authors I see at local literary cons in Texas. It is also true that I have been going to readings by William Ledbetter for some years now and had always enjoyed his stories.

But even the stories that I didn't enjoy quite as much (such as the two by C.A. Rose) had interesting premises and ideas.

Overall, I give this anthology four stars!