William R. Eakin (Bill)
...author, and his various fictions, including Redgunk, Mississippi, and its environs
"Bill Eakin is one of the more inventive writers making a name for himself today..."
—Kurt Roth, reviewing for Tangent
"...eloquent and witty, thoughtful and even heart-rending.... Every time I've read a Redgunk story recently, I've come away thinking the most recent was better than what I had seen before. I'm coming to realize that it's not a question of better; each one has been good on its own..."
—Kim Mohan, Amazing Stories
News
Tick Hill
Yard Dog Press
May 2006
Billy Eakin's rollicking B-movie gross-out tale of killer insects is a lot of fun.... grotesque and raunchy in the best meaning of those words.— DenverPost.com
Redgunk Tales
Distributed by Yard Dog Press
Invisible Cities Press, May 2001
"Faulkneresque... creating images and feelings that cannot be conveyed with mere prose fiction... Even readers who normally avoid science fiction and fantasy may enjoy the beauty of Eakin's imagery, his understanding of human nature and his attention to detail. The author is able to take the ordinary and give it a polish that makes it shine bright..."
— Adrienne Lee
University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi Libraries
"There is something magical happening in this small, archetypical Southern town..." [continued]
— Matthew Nadelhaft
at Tangent Online"Redgunk is simultaneously a place of prosaic horror and impossible beauty...." [continued]
— A.M. Dellamonica
Sci Fi Weekly"Welcome to Redgunk, Mississippi. It's a town with a couple of hundred residents, several of whom have been abducted by aliens and many of whom are dating them...." [continued]
— Rowan Inish
The Green Man Review
Science Fiction Chronicle
"The List"
(Fantasy)
2001
Locus
Recommended Reading 2001
Purchase both Redgunk Tales and Tick Hill at Yard Dog Press
New Story
"Grandmother Mist"
SciFiction
December 2001
"She was a soft-spoken Mozart minuet in old bones; afternoons with her now had the inward silence of a tea ceremony...." continued...
Recent Reviews
"The Lion and the Lamb": Reviewed at SFReader.com
Bibliography
Annotated Redgunk, a Bibliography
Family & Friends
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