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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
	Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #46 by Stephen Theaker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Greenwood (Editor), Douglas J. Ogurek (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 4 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
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	Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #52 by Stephen Theaker (Goodreads Author), Len Saculla (Contributor), Yarrow Paisley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 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

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Theaker’s Week(s) (August 2026)

I didn’t get around to writing a bit about every book and audiobook I finished last month, but here are a few.

On August 3 I finished Kasane, Vol. 2 by Daruuma Matsuura, tranlated by Jennifer Ward. *** It’s a manga book about a young woman whose face inspires horror in others, but who has, with the help of some special lipstick, the ability to steal faces with a kiss. After twelve hours the fac

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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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