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Welcome to davidsilburt.com, where I offer summaries of my science fiction/horror novels and links to where you can find them on Kindle. They’re not pricey because I don’t do this for money. I do it because it’s magic.

Do you remember the first novel you ever read? I remember mine. When I was 10 my Dad decided it was time for me to trade up from comic books, so he gave me that very first paperback. It was Pirates of Venus, a fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the guy who wrote the Tarzan stories. The cover showed a weird-looking bird/bat man flying off with the requisite damsel in his evil grip. I didn’t think it was corny. (Did I mention I was 10?) I dove in, looking for more pictures of that nasty-lookin’ dude.

My smile must have faltered on my face as I riffled through the book, because my father asked what was wrong. “There are no pictures,” I told him.
“It should have pictures.”

He said, “Oh, they’re in there. Read it and you’ll see the pictures. I promise.”

Dad was no liar. Burroughs was no Stephen King, either, but he was good enough in his day to make the pictures unspool in a 10-year-old kid’s head, and they were better than any movie I’d see until CGI came to Hollywood. To be able to do that — to make people see the things that you imagine like that — seemed magical then and it still does, which is why I worked at learning how, and it’s what I do now in glorious retirement, free of the need to please editors and others just to earn a living.

This is how it should be between writer and reader. No publishers, no editors, nobody nosing in. It’s just you and me. You can sample my offerings on Kindle for free, and if you like the sample you can buy the story for less than a deuce a download. 

You’ll find no irritatingly weak damsels in my stuff, but I can’t guarantee that you’ll like the stories. I can only make the same promise my father once made to me: If you read them, you’ll see the pictures.
 

 SNOWFLAKE WARNING 

The stories at the other end of these site links contain violent content which may be too intense for old people. They are nevertheless intended for mature audiences, where mature means readers who can stand coarse and frequently unwoke dialogue, occasionally even including racist dialogue used in assumed voice, without taking it personally. Reader discretion is advised. 

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