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Adam R. Mathews

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Born

The United Kingdom

Website

http://aimlesswanderer.org

Twitter

theAimlesWander

Genre

Science Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

Influences

Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Laurie Lee, John Steinbeck, Gabriel Garc ...more

Member Since

August 2016

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/adamrmathews

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Adam R. Mathews is a novelist and a teacher, a scientist and a cyclist. Equally at home managing language schools or running degrowth workshops, he is an incessant traveller and a keen localist.

After the concept of an all-pervasive corporation came to him while walking in Manchester’s Whitworth Park, Adam spent a decade stewing on his neo-liberal dystopia before he started to write. In that time he lived across Europe, from Budapest to Madrid, immersing himself in the cultures, quirks and social movements of his adopted homes.

Adam weaves his experiences into his writing, to make fiction that challenges the shortcomings of neo-liberalism. His first novel Pap came out in 2016, but the foundation tale PapRise is the book he always wanted to wr ...more

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Average rating: 4.36 · 11 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Pap 4.22 avg rating — 9 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
	PapRise: A Story of Growth and Betrayal or How PapCorp came to rule the World it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Terranaut: the art of sailing lands by Darinka Montico, Adam R. Mathews (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ari Wekku Saäski (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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