About Me

Nice To Meet You!

Hello! My name is G.D. Benton, I’m the person whose website you’re visiting. I like reading. And writing. I do both an awful lot. I think of myself as a speculative writer, intermixing elements of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crime in my stories. I’m drawn to uncanny tales where everyday people face desperate decisions and impossible odds. I’ve completed two novels that are currently trunked but that I hope to find use for someday, even if just for spare parts. I’m currently working on some short stories and a third novel, the latter of which is a sort of Reservoir Dogs meets Les Misérables, set on an agriculture planet with a collapsing ecosystem. At least that’s what I think it’s going to be. I’m still writing it, and sometimes these things change…

So that’s me. Basically. I’d love to send you out of here with some call to action, but I don’t have anything to sell you. Yet. When I do, this will get deleted and replaced with a pithy plea for your hard earned capital. But until then, please read one of the short stories on the next tab over, then go get some fresh air and maybe hug someone you love. 

Thanks for visiting!

Some Books I Really Admire

The Shining by Stephen King

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Leviathan by Paul Auster

The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Parable Of The Sower by Octavia Butler

Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates

The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe