A Lone Star in the Sky by William Ledbetter

^ a b ' Meet two North Texas writers who are up for Nebula Awards' by Michael Merschel, The Dallas Morning News, February 28, 2017.

Ron Hubbard award' by Penny Rathbun, Celina Record, May 12, 2012.

^ a b c d ' Introduction to 'The Rings of Mars' by William Ledbetter', Writers of the Future, Volume XXVIII, Galaxy Press LLC, 2012.

^ ' 2016 Nebula Awards Winners,' Locus Magazine, May 20, 2017.

He edited the anthology The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade, released by Simon and Schuster, and is a consulting editor at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. In addition to his writing Ledbetter also administers the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award contest for Baen Books and the National Space Society. His story 'The Rings of Mars' was a winner in the Writers of the Future contest. The science fiction story focuses on a future where children are not allowed to be born in zero gravity due to the risk of disfiguring mutations. Ledbetter's novelette 'The Long Fall Up,' originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the 2016 Nebula Award. Among the anthologies including his stories is The Year’s Best Military SF and Space Opera. Ledbetter has published a number of science fiction short stories in magazines such as Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog: Science Fiction & Fact, Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future, Escape Pod, and others. Instead, Ledbetter began a thirty-year career as a mechanical designer in the aerospace industry, including work on the radiator system for the International Space Station. Īs a child Ledbetter watched the Apollo 11 moon landing and dreamed of being an astronaut but was unable to pursue that career due to poor eyesight. He now lives in Prosper, north of Dallas. After growing up in Indiana he moved to Waco, Texas in 1995. William Ledbetter was born in a small town in Indiana in 1961, the year humans first flew in space. His novelette 'The Long Fall Up' won the 2016 Nebula Award. William Ledbetter (born 1961) is a science fiction writer whose short stories have been published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog: Science Fiction & Fact, Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future, Escape Pod, and other magazines. William Ledbetter holding the Nebula Award he won for his novelette 'The Long Fall Up.'

A Lone Star in the Sky by William Ledbetter