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William Renald Barton III is an American science fiction writer

Career

In addition to his standalone novels, he is also known for collaborations with Michael Capobianco. Many of their novels deal with themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera. Barton also has written short stories that put an emphasis on sexuality and human morality in otherwise traditional science fiction.

Barton has recently begun to self-publish his fiction for the Kindle.

Achievements

  • His short fiction has appeared in Asimov"s and Sciences Fiction, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Sidewise Award, and the HOMer Award, and three of his novels (The Transmigration of Souls, Acts of Conscience, and When We Were Real) were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award with Acts of Conscience winning a special citation in 1998.

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Awards

  • Hugo Award; Philip K. Dick Award

    The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.; The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.