George W. Padgett’s father never took him fishing.
Instead of dropping a line off a creaky pier or bobbing around a small two-man boat on a lake, he opted to take his son to watch cheesy B-movie science fiction films. Those experiences in the flickering glow of Houston, Texas movie theaters soon mixed with George’s voracious appetite for comic book reading. The result ignited a love for the art of story-telling.
Many years later, George found himself making up elaborate bedtime stories for his young daughter. He discovered that the outlandish tales of silliness and fantasy that he told were comparable (and even better sometimes) than the books that he was buying for her from the bookstores. On a whim he began to put these ideas to paper and surprised himself when he won the 2006 Joan Lowery Nixon award for a children’s book.
As his children grew older, George longed to delve into fiction with darker themes for adults; fiction that took the reader away to other planets, other societies, other times, introducing them to darker personalities. He began to write for himself – the stories he wanted to read.
His time is now divided between being a husband and father of two, jazz piano player, graphic artist, playwright, and painter. With what time that’s left over, he writes science fiction, short stories and the occasional mystery.
His most recent endeavor is a fast-paced sci-fi novel entitled Spindown. The book explores sociological themes set against the backdrop of a mining community on Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede. It’s a race against time as the life-support system of the station begins to eliminate the inhabitants it deems to be a threat to ore production.
Even now, thousands and thousands of words later, each story he tells, he imagines himself back in the movie theater passing the popcorn back to his father.
Upcoming Appearances
May 25 – 27, 2012
Convention
Comicpalooza 2012
George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
Published by Grey Gecko Press
Novels
Spindown (Coming Soon)
Short Stories
In Collections
The Arrangement (horror, from A Fancy Dinner Party)
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