William R. Burkett Jr.

Author Information
William R. Burkett Jr.'s Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    December 2018
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

A Writer's Journey

1 - Mean Grey Old Morning (Jan-2013)
2 - Snowing A Little in Paris And Other Cold War Stories (Apr-2013)
3 - Newspaper Gypsy (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Bloodsport

    Me and my robot.

    We're big game hunters. And we're after the biggest game in the known universe.

    The Pondoro Wolverine -- also known as the greer.

    Smart. Fast. And deadly. The hunter who taught me to stalk them had to grow a new leg to replace ...

  • Blood Lines

    Man Meets Ball

    The all-brain cyborg known as Ball and I are old friends. We met as big-game hunters, stalking the most vicious creature in the Universe'the Pondoro Wolverine, also known as the greer.

    Now we're on the planet Pto...

  • After August

    The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson's Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother's parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came t...

  • Mean Grey Old Morning

    A Writer's Journey - 1

    “Immolation of someone else’s diary was not how I had planned to start my day " it was a mean grey old morning, but I didn’t know then that was what to call it …” From surveillance of a yellow convertible in South Carolina to conversation...

  • John W. Campbell, Jr.: Science Fiction Genius

    As editor of Astounding Science Fiction and Analog, John Campbell shaped the direction of science fiction " ushering in its Golden Age. Overseeing a stable of writers that included Heinlein, Clark, and Asimov, he helped the genre gain status as ser...

  • A Matter of Logistics

    They overpopulated and polluted their home world before their sputtering on-again off-again space program finally took hold. They explored their local system and then developed near-light-speed drives, which opened relatively near worlds they could s...

  • Family Skeleton

    Seattle private eye Eddie Hummel gets called onto the case of a family with a missing twenty-year-old daughter. However, there’s more to the Filmore family than meets the eye. Here, in the hardboiled ’70s, Hummel puts his sleuthing skills into hi...

  • Snowing A Little in Paris And Other Cold War Stories

    A Writer's Journey - 2

    Another masterful collection of short fiction from the author of Mean Grey Old Morning, After August, Twin Killing, and Sleeping Planet. Here are impressionistic stories about military days in Europe and budding love in the City...

  • Sleeping Planet

    Science Fiction Encyclopedia described this as a "hard-edged" tale of the 24th-century conquest of Earth by an alien empire the humans had judged too stupid to pull off such a coup. Only a handful of humans escaped the effects of a mutated narcolepti...



  • The Pea-Green Boat and Other Unsettling Stories

    Ever read a story that made the hairs on your arms stand up? Well, get ready for a few unexpected chills as you read this new collection of short stories from the pen of William R. Burkett, Jr. Each of these stories are slightly off-center, just enou...

  • Newspaper Gypsy

    A Writer's Journey - 3

    The career of a newspaper journalist told as a series of short stories, each more fascinating than the one before. This saga of a reporter’s career is real enough to be true. A roman à clef? A memoir? Never mind, just let former newspaper gypsy Bi...

  • Skook

    Up in the Pacific Northwest, folks whisper about big hairy human-like creatures they call skooks. Others might refer to them as sasquatch, or Big Foot. A down-on-his-luck ex-newspaperman lives there on the plateau with his family, not far from the Go...

  • Twin Killing

    The seventies in Seattle: XXX-rated theatres on First Avenue and a dramatic economic meltdown that swamped the street activism of the sixties and led to the famous billboard lament: Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights. The blonde...

  • A Footnote to History

    If the armadillo hadn't crossed the moonlit road at that specific moment in 1967, the newlywed couple would not have died in a car crash. The 3092 search algorithm would not have substituted a perfect clone for the husband in the moment of his fiery ...

  • Not Quite Novellas

    Edgar Allan Poe favored the short story ... and we love them too. "The ordinary novel is objectionable, from its length," Poe declared. "As it cannot be read at one sitting, it deprives itself, of course, of the immense force derivable from totality....

  • Shadow of a Soldier

    While serving as a husky young MP in Europe, noted sci-fi author Bill Burkett kept a diary of his misadventures, encounters, romances, and sightseeing. Later, he turned these scribblings into what he calls Brautigans, so named after a writer named Ri...

  • Venue Mons Iliad

    Like Homer's Iliad, this too is an epic story, the recounting of a man's journey, in this case through a life filled with a strange species called woman. The dedication, quoting the song To All the Girls I Loved Before, says it all. If men are from M...

  • Venus Mons Iliad

    The third (and maybe final) installment of one man's journey through a life filled with a strange species called woman. Like Moby Dick's narrator, Ishmael tells of a search with an elusive goal, understanding the women in his life. Here are a writer'...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William R. Burkett Jr. has published 18 books.

William R. Burkett Jr. does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Venus Mons Iliad, was published in December 2018.

The first book by William R. Burkett Jr., Bloodsport, was published in January 1998.

Yes. William R. Burkett Jr. has 1 series.
Author Series
Top Authors in Mystery
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe