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Jim Meeks-Johnson

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Jim is best known for his ongoing Entangled Galaxy Series and imaginative short stories.

Jim's other published works of fiction include Thunderstone in the Six Worlds anthology (2016) and By the Numbers in the e-zine Aurorawolf.com (2015). Five of his short stories were awarded Honorable Mentions by the L Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.

Jim became an avid science fiction reader at the age of ten when he discovered Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers in the local Carnegie Library. He went on to get degrees in mathematics and psychology in order to help Hari Seldon invent Psychohistory. However, Seldon didn’t need Jim's help, so Jim took a job writing computer software for medical research in Indianapolis, wh ...more

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The Fast Folk and the Forest: Full Story from ICON 49

The Fast-folk and the Forest
by Jim Meeks-Johnson
copyright 2024

Billions of nights, my night-side antenna trees listened to the stars. Millions of stars I searched–collecting and transmitting electromagnetic radiation. A few answers came from herd-animal civilizations, but no signal from another planetary-level intelligence. I’ve always been alone, but I didn’t know I was lonely until the fast-folk

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Average rating: 4.25 · 245 ratings · 69 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Enemy Immortal (Entangled Galaxy Book 1) 4.09 avg rating — 148 ratings — 6 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
	Umlac's Legacy (Entangled Galaxy Book 2) 4.60 avg rating — 55 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
	Vishnar's Revenge 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — 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
	Compelling Science Fiction Issue 12 by Joe Stech, Deborah L. Davitt (Goodreads Author), John M. Campbell (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings	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 Colored Lens #28 Summer 2018 by Dawn Lloyd (Editor), Daniel Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Burris D. Nichols it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Six Worlds by Candise Mitton, Masha Leyfer, Matthew J. Rogers (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Umlac's Legacy: Rogues and Misfits 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Paradise Icon Anthology 2025 by Stephanie Vance (Goodreads Author), George Galuschak (Editor), Chris Bauer 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
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