R J Weinkam: 4 books

This is a story of Jane Austen's young life after she has abandoned her efforts to write and has settled into a settled, if unrewarding, existence. Much of the novel follows directly from her correspondence and known biographical facts to provide some probable and revealing glimpses into her...

Jane Austen was nineteen when she began writing novels. The first of these was never completed, but three others, after the passage of time and extensive revisions, were published and are among the worlds best loved novels. Their continued popularity, two-hundred years after being written, is extraordinary....

Jane Austen used many people and places in her novels that were drawn from real life. Nevertheless, no individuals of her acquaintance have been identified that correspond to her most famous characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy - but then very little is known of her early life. In MEETING ELIZABETH,...

The vast bulk of science fiction ignores most physical laws to create often exciting and always imaginary tales, but what if the laws of science were largely maintained. What would that be like? In OUTWARD BORNE, a distant alien world embarks on the galaxy's first interstellar voyage, a millennia-long...