Special Needs in Strange Worlds – Mark Lawrence

You can find the original post here. About the author Mark Lawrence is married with four children, one of whom is severely disabled. His day job is as a research scientist focused on various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. At one point…

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The Curve of the Earth – Simon Morden

About the Book Welcome to the Metrozone – post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He’s brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has…

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Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Peter Orullian

About the Author If you’re unfamiliar with Peter, you’ll find his creative endeavors come in two main thrusts: Writing and Music. Depending on the day, he’ll tell you one or the other is his favorite. Early on, a close third was athletics, baseball in particular. But somewhere along the line he became more a spectator…

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Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Paul Weimer on Tony Stark

About the Author What can I say about myself? 37 years old, native of Staten Island, New York, living between the coasts in Minnesota (The Great White North!). Roleplayer. Science-geek. Amateur Photographer. Lover of Science Fiction, Fantasy and History. (Avid Reader!) Technical Office Professional. You can fine Paul on Twitter, Facebook, SF Signal and a…

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Shattered Pillars – Elizabeth Bear

About the Book The Shattered Pillars is the second book of Bear’s The Eternal Sky trilogy and the sequel to Range of Ghosts. Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Khagan and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark…

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Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Elspeth Cooper

You can find the original post here. About the author Elspeth Cooper was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. Her parents read her Ivanhoe as a bedtime story, which was, she says, their first mistake. An inspired primary school teacher introduced her to Beowulf, and by age 11 she’d worked her way…

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Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Myke Cole

About the Author As a secu­rity con­tractor, gov­ern­ment civilian and mil­i­tary officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from Coun­tert­er­rorism to Cyber War­fare to Fed­eral Law Enforce­ment. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deep­water Horizon oil spill. All that con­flict can wear a guy out. Thank good­ness for…

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Special Needs in Strange Worlds Kickoff

I wasn’t planning on doing this until Monday, but life has a way of exploding in my face. My doctor called today and said if he didn’t operate on my back ASAP, I’m running the risk of paralysis, which would be permanent. I go in for surgery first thing in the morning. I learned that…

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