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.

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....