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Non-Series Science Fiction Novels by Lawrence Watt-Evans:

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The Chromosomal Code
Shining Steel
Denner's Wreck
Nightside City
The Spartacus File (with Carl Parlagreco)

From 1980 to 1992, I considered myself as much a science fiction writer as a fantasy writer. In 1992, though, my agent sat me down and told me a few facts about the market, with reference to the royalty statements showing how much more money I made from fantasy than from SF, and I stopped writing science fiction novels under the name Lawrence Watt-Evans.

Well, after completing the three-book contract for the series now called "Worlds of Shadow," which crossed genre lines, I stopped.

And there was one SF novel I'd written that hadn't sold yet, The Spartacus File (a collaboration with Carl Parlagreco), which did eventually see print.

But mostly I quit.

During my time as a multi-genre novelist I wrote a total of ten novels I consider arguably science fiction. Half of them were series novels -- the "War Surplus" series (two volumes), and the "Worlds of Shadow" series (three volumes). Both series had fantasy elements mixed in with the SF.

The other five were real SF, though, and they're listed on the left. You can click on those links to read more about each of them. Three of them -- Shining Steel, Denner's Wreck, and Nightside City -- have a shared background, though there may be some minor contradictions, as I wasn't being especially careful about it.

So -- do I ever intend to write more SF novels?

Maybe. There are two ways it might happen:

• I could write them under another name. That obviously wouldn't be practical for sequels or prequels, but entirely new works would be fine this way.

• I might write them as reader-supported online serials, the way I did The Spriggan Mirror and The Vondish Ambassador. This would be the way to go with sequels.

For now, though, that's it.

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