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Caitlin Demaris McKenna

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Caitlin was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, but spent her formative years in Minnesota, where on cold, clear nights, she'd look up at the stars and wonder.

In the years since, she has visited three continents, and lived in Vancouver and New York. By day, she is a freelance editor at Scoria Press, LLC, and writes articles at the intersection of technology, media, and society for Yellow Bear Media. Absence of Blade is her first book. ...more

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Average rating: 4.31 · 131 ratings · 72 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Absence of Blade (The Expansion Series, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Crooked V.2 by Jessie Kwak (Goodreads Author) (Editor), G.J. Ogden (Goodreads Author), Austin Dragon (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 21 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
	Halcyon (The Dawnfall Saga #1) 4.36 avg rating — 14 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
	Shadow Game (The Expansion Series #0.5) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 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
	Alliance of Exiles (The Expansion Series, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 11 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
	Accord of Shadows (The Expansion Series, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 7 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
	Ashes of Victory (The Expansion Series #4) 4.14 avg rating — 7 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
	The Expansion Series, Books 1-3 (The Expansion Series, #1-3) 4.80 avg rating — 5 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 Athabasca Project (The Dawnfall Saga #0) 4.67 avg rating — 3 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
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Pick up my Expansion space opera series during the Smashwords “Read An Ebook Week” Event!

Hello, Reader!

We are fast approaching Read an Ebook Week, a week that encourages readers to pick up the digital device of their choice and download a new book to read.

I’m excited to announce that my Expansion space opera series will be available as part of a promotion on Smashwords to celebrate 2025 Read an Ebook Week! This is a chance to get my books, along with books from many other great author

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The Expansion Series (4 books)
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Caitlin Demaris McKenna (Goodreads Author)

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The Dawnfall Saga (1 book)
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Caitlin Demaris McKenna (Goodreads Author)

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Radical Relating: A Queer and Polyamory-Informed Guide to Love Beyond the Myth of Monogamy

by Mel Cassidy (Goodreads Author)

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Caitlin made a comment in the group Space Opera Fans — Nov 2025 LIMITED - Livesuit by Corey topic " @Paul, I haven’t yet produced an audiobook of Halcyon but I’m looking into more economical ways to produce one soon. You are not the first person who ...more "
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Caitlin made a comment in the group Space Opera Fans — December 2025 READER Nominations topic " I’ll second Mindtouch! I read it a few years ago and adored it. "
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Caitlin made a comment in the group Space Opera Fans — What are you reading right now? For 2025 topic " Ooh, I added Where the Axe is Buried to my to-read list instantly, John! I adored Nayler’s debut, The Mountain the Sea, and his novella The Tusks of E ...more "
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Caitlin made a comment in the group Space Opera Fans — Introduce Yourself - Part 2 topic " Welcome, B.D.! Because you asked, I think Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series beginning with The Calculating Stars hits all those points: sol ...more "
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Caitlin’s Quotes

“For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime.

But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs.... Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime had ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves.”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

tags: awe, humility, nature, sublime, technology, wonder

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