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Interview with Ben Van Dongen

October 31, 2025 Vanessa Shields1 Comment

Ben Van Dongen writes science fiction. He's been writing in this genre for decades with some deviation into crime and horror, but he keeps coming back to wide world of 'what if...' that science fiction embraces. Ben is the author of five novellas in a series called Synthetic Albatross, and is a contributor in two… Continue reading Interview with Ben Van Dongen

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