Larry Ivkovich ~
Speculative Fiction

I'm a former IT Systems Analyst with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from West Virginia University. How I went from art to computers is a differnt story but, suffice to say, about forty years ago, I found another creative path to walk - writing fiction, particularly speculative fiction.

 

Though I grew up drawing and painting, my relationship with creating visual art was one of a love/hate or even bi-polar nature. I'd furiously work on a painting or an etching for weeks and then do nothing for months.

 

With writing, I've found my true passion. It's like painting with words, creating something out of nothing. I try to write every day, reveling in the worlds, settings, characters and situations I envision. I love to tell stories.

 

Inspired initially by comic books, action-oriented television shows, authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, and Andre Norton, I've sold my short work to various online and print markets including:

 

Penumbra                                      SQ Magazine

Tower of Light Fantasy                       Raw Terror

Anotherealm                                   Abaculus III

M-Brane SF                                     Triangulation

TVGods: Summer Programming            Twisted Cat Tales 

Afterburn SF                                  Shoreline of Infinity

Noctober                                Beyond the Karman Line

Polis: Tales of the One City               

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A collection of some of my short stories/novellas based in the Magus Star Rising universe are in my book Beyond the Numinous.

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