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Ritchie Valentine Smith

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Born

The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.ritchievalentinesmith.com/

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Genre

Fantasy, Crime, Historical Fiction

Influences

Robert Jordan; Joe Abercrombie; Roger Zelazny; George R R Martin

Member Since

January 2015

URL

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It's epic fantasy I write now, the 'Words of Power' series - colorful, multicultural high fantasy, in the spirit of Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin. Otherwise...

Ritchie Valentine Smith was once a social worker, once a poet, and once on the BBC ‘New Talent’ program. His interest in fantasy and SF started when he was a boy on Tyneside fascinated by alternate realities. His work appeared in anthologies with the likes of Keith Roberts, Brian Aldiss and Robert Holdstock. His interest in the East was fuelled when he read Clavell’s masterpiece ‘Shogun’. He is still a member of the Crime Writers’ Association (having done three thrillers in the 90s). His play 'Rocket Man' was on at the Pleasance (Edinburgh) and the Union Theatre (London) where ...more

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Average rating: 3.15 · 26 ratings · 8 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Monster Beach 2.95 avg rating — 22 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
	Words of Power 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 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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“I learn from the past, I dwell in the present, and I plan for the future.”
― Lena Karynn Tesla, Something More

tags: future, learn, past, plan, present, something-more-trilogy, varldine

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“Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, a fury in a cage. He had no right to tease them. They knew no relation but possession. They were possessed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: misogyny, patriarchy, women

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