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Ray Tabler

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Louisville, KY, The United States

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Ray Tabler is a retired chemical engineer who started writing around 2000. Born and raised in Kentucky, he chased the northbound dollar to Michigan and forgot the way home. Just as well. Ray's wife worries about him when he's out wandering after dark...So does Ray, for that matter.
Ray's books are best described as light space opera. (Starship Troopers, hijacked by Monty Python. Or Gilbert and Sullivan, bankrolled and unduly influenced by Flo Ziegfeld.) So, if you'd like some science fiction you can enjoy, crack open one of Ray's novels and come along for the ride.
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Average rating: 4.01 · 93 ratings · 19 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Best of Jim Baen's Universe by Eric Flint (Editor), Eric Witchey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Alan Dean Foster 3.76 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows & Light: Volume II by Alva J. Roberts (Editor), Cat Rambo (Goodreads Author), Lydia Sharp (Goodreads Author) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 52 by David Kernot (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sean Monaghan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Dominik Parisien (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Grand Imperial War 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fool's Paradise 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hairballs, Hiccups and Hope by Amanda Montandon, Laura Begley (Editor), Clair Kiernan it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Grand Imperial Heir 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diesel-Powered Starship it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Grand Imperial Heir (Grand Imperial Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diesel-Powered Starship: Pirates, anarchists, religious fanatics, and rim running rogues 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Was signing copies of A Grand Imperial War at the American Library Association annual conference on Sunday. Pleasantly surprised to find actual, factual fans waiting in line for me before the start time. Thank you. That means a lot. Also surprised to learn that publishers attending the ALA will literally shove free books into the hands of passing librarians, in hopes that they will go home and ord Read more of this blog post »

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Monster Hunter Fantom

by Larry Correia

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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

by Victor Davis Hanson

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The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations

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Ray’s Quotes

“Faith, humility, fanaticism, and arrogance walk the same path. Faith and humility seek to understand the way, fanaticism and arrogance assume they know the way.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

tags: arrogance, cautionary, faith, fanaticism, hubris, humility

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