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Lettie Prell

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Lettie Prell is a science fiction writer. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Apex Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and elsewhere. Her work has been reprinted in anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition, and Neil Clarke's The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two. ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 3,172 ratings · 692 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Charles Payseur (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Apex Magazine Issue 80 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ursula Vernon (Contributor), Lettie Prell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 2016	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
	The New Voices of Science Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi (Editor), Jacob Weisman (Editor), Alexander Weinstein (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124, January 2017 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Goodreads Author), Lettie Prell (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016 Edition by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author), Nina Allan 3.76 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2017	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
	The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 2 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nina Allan, Madeline Ashby (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2017 — 7 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
	The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 by Rich Horton (Editor), Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lettie Prell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The Three Lives of Sonata James 3.63 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2016	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
	The Need for Air 3.59 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2018	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
	Dragon Ring 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008	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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Lettie Prell rated a book really liked it The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (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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Lettie Prell rated a book it was amazing Bewilderment by Richard Powers	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
Mandatory reading. Masterful writing, with a storyline that manages to be be both tragic and somehow…uplifting? No, more like consoling, like the beautiful bedtime stories of other worlds the narrator tells his son, even though those are often sad as ...more
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Lettie Prell and 17 other people liked Alan's review of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements: "Make no mistake: Octavia's Brood belongs. It is modern sf—an anthology of speculative fiction (including both science fiction and fantasy, wherever you draw that line) from authors both known and unknown, collected here in honor of the late Octavia E" Read more of this review »
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Lettie Prell rated a book really liked it The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (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
A young adult novel where the young adult problems are compounded by a world falling apart in a riveting, distinctly more dire way than what’s on the news right now. Does it help a young person cope by reading of a worse world that’s spiraling down t ...more
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Lettie Prell has read Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 135, December 2017 by Neil Clarke (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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“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”
― Lettie Prell

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Lettie’s Quotes

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”
― Lettie Prell

tags: writing, writing-life

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“Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.”
― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

tags: rich-vs-poor, the-99

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