The Official Web Site of
John Dalmas

Hi. My name is John Dalmas, and I’m an author with 27 published novels and 3 collections to my credit. I am not the Raymond Chandler private eye of the same name.

If you prefer to get right to my books, go on ahead. If you’re curious about the author, read on.

Even as a child I intended to write books. I simply wasn't in a hurry. There were all those other things I wanted to do first, and over the years I kept adding to the list. So I didn't sit down to write my first novel until almost my forty-second birthday.

One day in 1968, I picked up what I soon decided was a really poor novel, and told myself “I can write better than that,” then began to write The Yngling. The following March, John W. Campbell bought it for Analog....

• John Dalmas: the evolution of an author (expanded)
• My books
• Some of my books described (some with excerpts)
• Accepted; awaiting publication (none at present)
• Book projects — substantial new material, Feb. 2008
• Poetry (yep, I'm one of those)
• Remarks on poetry
• Essays on writing (new material)
• Reviews, Reviewers, and Writing Fiction
• Humor
• Lor Lu's observations (NEW — from The Signature of God) — minor editing, Feb. 2008
• People, politics, plots and paradigms (NEW)
• The Psychic Page (NEW)
  Guest pieces (NEW)
• Miscellany — this is a goodie