Bill Preston, author of Tales of the Old Man
Bill Preston is an educator and author of speculative fiction. He is well known for his series of “pulp” stories referred to as “tales of the old man” which is about a Doc Savage like superhero. Bill publishes under the name William Preston.
If you’re a kindle user, Bill’s first book of the Old Man series may be FREE for Kindle Unlimited. See link for details.
You can contact Bill Preston via Twitter.
Bill (William) Preston’s author page is here on Amazon.
Bonus materials:
Jay O’Connell has an essay on “Doc Savage Lives Again in William Preston’s Old Man Cycle.”
Listen to the first interview series about Tales of the Old Man:
- 144 Author and Educator Bill Preston talks Literary Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury, and Spock
- 145 Much ado about Genre, Ray Bradbury, and Early American Writers
- 146 How being a publishing science fiction writer affects how you teach English, plus a tip from George Saunders
- 147 Bill Preston’s Reading from HELPING THEM TAKE THE OLD MAN DOWN
Via FreeSound.org, the following users have contributed sound bites that were used in the above episodes: footsteps wood floor by ralph.whitehead.
Bill talks about the last Tales of the Old Man story in this interview series:
- 307 William Preston’s Neo-pulp Fiction
- 308 Multigenerational Story Telling
- 309 Doc Savage, The Old Man—Pulp Fiction and Personal Improvement
- 310 William Preston reads from TO MAKE AN END (Tales of the Old Man)
- 311 Why William Preston ends his Tales of the Old Man series
- 312 Fiction with a frame of Telling a Story
- 313 How Writers Read Books
Are you interested in hearing more about Doc Savage?
Here are some SciFi Thoughts episodes discuss who created this pulp hero and how he wrote so many books about him: click here.
If you’re interested in what is pulp fiction and how it came about, click here and these SciFi Thoughts episodes will fill you in:
