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Sunyi’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sunyi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sunyi Dean
Goodreads Author
Born
in Denton, Texas, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
gene wolfe robin hobb, michael moorcock, ada palmer, geroge macdonald,
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Member Since
April 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/blind_nycteris
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The Book Eaters
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2022
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36 editions
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How to Cook and Eat the Rich
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2023
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The Thief of Memory
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2022
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Best of British Science Fiction 2018
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2019
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Monstrous Tales: Haunting Encounters with Britain's Mythical Beasts
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2025
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The Book Eaters Sneak Peek
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2022
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition
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2023
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces
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2026
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Grimdark Magazine, Issue 37, January 2024
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2024
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 147, August 2022
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2022
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New podcast episode!
Good morning from the UK!
We're pleased to launch Ep 7: An Epic Journey Through Self & Trad with Robin & Michael J Sullivan (transcripts incl!)
Check the show notes for this one - the Sullivans v kindly gave links to their many free lectures 🙂
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We're pleased to launch Ep 7: An Epic Journey Through Self & Trad with Robin & Michael J Sullivan (transcripts incl!)
Check the show notes for this one - the Sullivans v kindly gave links to their many free lectures 🙂
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Sunyi Dean
is currently reading
read in June 2020
Sunyi Dean said:
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Don't worry, I'm not going to star my own book. That would feel very strange! I'm just filling out this review form because YIKES, I have a novel on Goodreads! This is not the first novel I've written, only the first I managed to get published, and I ...more "
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Sunyi Dean
voted for
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
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Readers' Favorite Horror
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Sunyi Dean
voted for
The River Has Roots
as
Readers' Favorite Fantasy
in the
Final Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Sunyi Dean
answered
Briana Heine's
question:
This question contains spoilers…
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Not silly at all! Alcohol is technically poison, for both humans and book eaters. It is non-nutritious for Devon, and she wouldn't (for example) absorb any calories or nutrients from it, but it still negatively impacts her cognitively and slows her d
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well researched and carefully plotted I appreciated the work that went into this novel. It was helpful for a project I’m working on. Lots of science was lovingly poured into this. |
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well researched and carefully plotted I appreciated the work that went into this novel. It was helpful for a project I’m working on. Lots of science was lovingly poured into this. |
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| I read Justice of Kings as a netgalley arc back in the day, excited by the buzz and premise, and of course adored it. And pressured my friends to read it. It is once again my privilege to read one of his ARCs, because I loved the premise and knew tha ...more | |
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“On the surface, what we do will be an easy task. But the truth is, forgiveness is never easy. The heart is afraid to let go.
When hurt is all we’ve known, we are reluctant to relinquish it, and we fear to venture into unfamiliar lands.” Sunyi Dean |
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“When we met, a fire started again in my heart, one I thought had gone out forever. I saw in you the victory that could be won for our city. I believed again, after I had thought my faith in the cause turned to dust. In the darkest moments of that war, you burned through my despair.” He pauses, and you get the sense he’s fighting back tears. “Whatever else you may have done or be guilty of, I will never forget how you fought, or the gift of hope you brought to me and my soldiers.”
“I feel like all I did was destroy.” The words tumble out of you, unbidden. “I’m not a builder of anything, hope or otherwise.” “I think you do yourself an injustice, Siu Yin.” Wing Yun dabs his eyes, and smiles. “The price of peace is always death. Every year of good fortune is paid for in war, and the cost of those lives means you and I can sit here, now, and breathe air quietly. You paid for us to live.” “And when will it be my turn to live?” Heaviness squeezes your chest, a feeling not unlike the ache of dro ...more Sunyi Dean |
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“We can only live by the light we're given, and some of us are given no light at all. What else can we do except learn to see in the dark?”
― The Book Eaters
― The Book Eaters
“For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.
Certainly, it could inspire goodness. She didn’t argue that. Poets would tell you that love was electricity in your veins that could light a room. That it was a river in your soul to lift you up and carry you away, or a fire inside the heart to keep you warm.
Yet electricity could also fry, rivers could drown, and fires could burn; love could be destructive. Punishingly, fatally destructive.
And the other thing, the real bloody clincher of it all, was that the good and the bad didn’t get served up equally. If love were a balance of electric lights and electric jolts, two sides of an equally weighted coin, then fair enough. She could deal.
That wasn’t how it worked, though. Some love was just the bad, all the time: an endless parade of electrified bones and drowned lungs and hearts that burned to a cinder inside the cage of your chest.
And so she looked down at her son and loved him with the kind of twisted, complex feeling that came from having never wanted him in the first place; she loved him with bitterness, and she loved him with resignation. She loved him though she knew no good could ever come from such a bond.”
― The Book Eaters
Certainly, it could inspire goodness. She didn’t argue that. Poets would tell you that love was electricity in your veins that could light a room. That it was a river in your soul to lift you up and carry you away, or a fire inside the heart to keep you warm.
Yet electricity could also fry, rivers could drown, and fires could burn; love could be destructive. Punishingly, fatally destructive.
And the other thing, the real bloody clincher of it all, was that the good and the bad didn’t get served up equally. If love were a balance of electric lights and electric jolts, two sides of an equally weighted coin, then fair enough. She could deal.
That wasn’t how it worked, though. Some love was just the bad, all the time: an endless parade of electrified bones and drowned lungs and hearts that burned to a cinder inside the cage of your chest.
And so she looked down at her son and loved him with the kind of twisted, complex feeling that came from having never wanted him in the first place; she loved him with bitterness, and she loved him with resignation. She loved him though she knew no good could ever come from such a bond.”
― The Book Eaters
“None of us are truly good,” the vicar said, at last. He put a hand on her shoulder, so gently, so kindly, and she almost threw up on the spot. “All we can do is live by the light we are given.”
“Some of us don’t have any light,” Devon said. “How are we supposed to live, then?”
― The Book Eaters
“Some of us don’t have any light,” Devon said. “How are we supposed to live, then?”
― The Book Eaters
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“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.”
― A History of Western Philosophy
― A History of Western Philosophy
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”
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“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.”
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Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.”
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“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“Oriel didn’t move. But inside of his head, all was movement, like a river running over rapids, searching for the way through, trying routes around rocks and over shallows, a turbulence of thought more rapid than he could follow. Griff, he knew, would do and say nothing until he heard Oriel’s choice.”
― The Wings of a Falcon
― The Wings of a Falcon
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