William K. Carlson

Bill Carlson was born in the city of Chicago in 1937, when it was still "hog butcher of the world." But he was raised mostly on a farm in Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska (B.A. in English) and Cornell University (M.A. in Creative Writing). After a three-year stint in the U.S. Navy as a destroyer Communications Officer, he settled down to a single life of writing and part-time work with the National Park Service. He has had two science fiction novels, Sunrise West and Elysium, published by Doubleday, and he has also published short stories and articles in a variety of publications and websites.

Charlie is My Darling by William K. Carlson (fantasy/science fiction)
       It's not every day that a man declares himself Charles Dickens, especially in 21st century New York. Jan can't help herself - as an amateur Dickens scholar and a TV producer, she has to meet the man, whatever kind of crook (or mental case) he may be. But what she finds is something all together unexpected. The man she meets doesn't even remotely resemble Dickens, and his accent is pure midwestern America - yet his mind is witty and perfectly Victorian, and in all other respects as Dickensian as could be. Unable to believe him either an impersonator or a lunatic, Jan begins to prepare the world for something all-together impossible.

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