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R.W.W. Greene

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R.W.W. Greene is the author of "The Light Years" (Feb. 2020)," "Twenty-Five to Life" (Aug. 2021), "Mercury Rising" (May 2022), and "Earth Retrograde" (Oct. 2023), all from Angry Robot Books. Member of SFWA. ...more

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	The Light Years 3.76 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 2020 — 5 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
	Mercury Rising (First Planets #1) 3.76 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 2022 — 4 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
	Twenty-Five to Life 3.86 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 2021 — 5 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
	Earth Retrograde: Book II of the First Planets 4.08 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Miseria's Chorale by David Nell (Editor), Christopher Nadeau, Patrick Lacey (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	2017 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide by Corie Weaver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maggie Allen, Marilag Angway (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Something Wicked Anthology, Vol Two by Joe Vaz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vianne Venter (Editor), Faith Bicknell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018 by Kit-Bacon Gressitt (editor), Sara Marchant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maia Antoinette (Contributor) 4.42 avg rating — 12 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
	Metaphorosis Magazine, Issue 55, July 2020 by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Tenebrae (Illustrator), Ashley R. Carlson (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 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
	Metaphorosis 2020: The Complete Stories (Complete Metaphorosis, #5) by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Felicity Drake, Michael Sherrin 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021 — 4 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

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100 Years of Gatsby is Quite Enough

ReaderCon 34 — an annual literary speculative-fiction convention — ran this past weekend, and I was fortunate to attend. Among the panels I took part in (The International Imagination in a Time of Nationalism, Bisexuals in Science Fiction: Still Hip After All These Years?, We Need to Talk About Gaiman, and my first kaffeeklatsch), I moderated one titled The Next Great Gatsby.

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R.W.W. Greene liked Sarah Smith's review of Earth Retrograde: Book II of the First Planets: "Brooklyn Lamontagne-- Wait, wasn't he dead at the end of MERCURY RISING? Well, yes. But Brooklyn is back, scurrilous as ever, trying to solve the mystery of why the First, who drove humans off Earth, have suddenly...just disappeared. Dazzling worldbu" Read more of this review »
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R.W.W. Greene answered Charles's question: Is the proprietor of Balin Books, Nashua, NH your father-in-law? Trying to keep Indie bookstores and science fiction authors in the game I recently went in there to buy a dead tree copy of Earth Retrograde. He pimps you hard. I first bought your 25 to Life at his urging. He remembers you fondly. Although, at your last in-store reading, he laments your acolytes could have bought more. Sorry for the delay in my reply; I've been on the road. No relation, although if he ever needs adopting... Balin Books is a good store, and it's pretty supportive of local authors. I appreciate that he keeps me in stock! I, too, wish scads of book love See Full Answer
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Author Barrett projects the Victorian Age into the mind of his readers, luring them onto a dark, twisty path of hauntings and horror, murder and macabre mirth. Read it.
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"Hell Upside Down!!" When I was a toddler, the commercial for "The Poseidon Adventure" used that catchphrase, and I ran around the house in my diaper screaming it for hours. (Apparently. According to my mother.) Reading Hanks's new book caused much the ...more
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R.W.W. Greene rated a book it was amazing Metaphorosis Magazine, Issue 30, June 2018 by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author)	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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