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Darran’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Darran’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Darran M. Handshaw
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
August 2016
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/theengineer
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The Engineer
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The Quantum Soul
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2017
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The Dark Heart of Redemption
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Artifacts and Enigmas: Mysteries from Redemption
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Made the Semi-finals!
I'm proud to announce that The Engineer made it as a semi-finalist in Fantasy Faction's group of SPFBO4!!
Darran’s Recent Updates
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“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.”
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“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
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“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
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"Chose to review after receiving an early-access copy (eARC)
Artifacts and Enigmas is incredible fun for Sherlock Holmes fans who love sci-fi gizmos. Set in the same universe as Darran's The Engineer novel, it's a set of independent interlinked stories " Read more of this review » |
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Artifacts and Enigmas: Mysteries from Redemption:
"Whether you like it or not, the truth always comes into the light"
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Darran Handshaw
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Hi! I apologize if this is a second submission. I couldn't find the first. Could you please move my new book to my correct author page? It automatical
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Artifacts and Enigmas needs to be linked to my Author page here:
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| It's a wild ride! James Bond in Space! I really enjoyed this action-packed ride and some of the interesting sci-fi concepts in it. ...more | |
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“We are born in the shadow of fading memories and fallen dreams, living our days within the decaying bones of an age long gone.”
― The Engineer
― The Engineer
“It is rare for certain to find two things that, without modification or alteration, can fit together with a perfection that is usually only manufactured.”
― The Engineer
― The Engineer
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| Apocalypse Whenever: JUNE 2019 NEWS | 4 | 21 | Jun 16, 2019 10:39PM | |
| Apocalypse Whenever: June Giveaway: "The Engineer" by Darran M. Handshaw (ebooks) | 20 | 68 | Jul 03, 2019 08:00PM | |
| Goodreads Librari...: Move Book to Author Page | 2 | 5 | Sep 01, 2025 10:38AM |
“They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
And what difference does that make?”
― Catch-22
No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
And what difference does that make?”
― Catch-22
“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Nine Princes in Amber
― Nine Princes in Amber
“Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.
Trust your demon.”
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Trust your demon.”
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