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Stephen Theaker

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Birmingham, The United Kingdom

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Stephen Theaker is the co-editor and publisher of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction. His reviews, articles and interviews have appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Prism and the BFS Journal. His novels are not well-regarded. ...more

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	Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #50 by Stephen Theaker (Goodreads Author), John Greenwood, Rafe McGregor 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #45 by Stephen Theaker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Greenwood (Editor), Howard Watts 3.60 avg rating — 5 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
	Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #34 by Stephen Theaker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kevin R. Bridges, Mike Phillips 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 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
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#OcTBRChallenge 2026: a month of reading books in French (or translated from French)

It's October, which means I am once again taking part in OcTBRChallenge, when the idea is to spend a month digging deep into your TBR list. And even though there are now only two of us still doing it on Twitter (there are more on Bluesky), I'm still enjoying it. I think the reason it hasn't taken off in the way of some other annual events is maybe that keen readers tend to be reading all year Read more of this blog post »

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Stephen’s Quotes

“She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.”
― Muriel Spark, Bang-Bang You're Dead and Other Stories

tags: politics, reviewing

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“We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.”
― Murray Leinster, The Wailing Asteroid

tags: humans

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“Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, An Island Called Moreau

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“Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.”
― Paul Fussell

tags: vanity-in-review

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“It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.”
― Ian Cameron Esslemont, Stonewielder

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