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Ru Pringle

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'Ru Pringle is one of the most interesting and exciting new writers to emerge north of the border since Iain Banks' - Gary Gibson, award-nominated author of Angel Stations, Against Gravity and Stealing Light.

'Rudy Rucker on drugs' - BestSF

Ru Pringle has written for a living since his late teens, beginning with regular features in numerous magazines and newspapers. His critically acclaimed early short fiction was published in Interzone. After several years as a touring musician, he his first two books were published in the summer of 2018: A Time of Ashes and Hunting Gods, the first parts of the fantasy / sf epic Fate and the Wheel. A dark near-future thriller, October Song, followed in October 2018. He is currently editing the centuries-span
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Ru Pringle I can honestly say I've never really had it. My main problem has been editing, which I sometimes find borderline traumatising. It can be a lot of effo…moreI can honestly say I've never really had it. My main problem has been editing, which I sometimes find borderline traumatising. It can be a lot of effort to motivate yourself to tweak and tweak one tiny passage until it's right. I have to try and ignore the bigger picture and how much time it's taking, and just concentrate on that one section. Otherwise I'd get overwhelmed.(less)
Ru Pringle Don't do it! Unless (a) you get obsessively involved (as I do) with the busy contents of your own head, and writing it down is a kind of catharsis (b)…moreDon't do it! Unless (a) you get obsessively involved (as I do) with the busy contents of your own head, and writing it down is a kind of catharsis (b) you find writing easy and something you can do in your spare time, and/or (c) you have a singular degree of bloody-mindedness that's out of all proportion to the likely rewards involved. (less)
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October Song

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A Haven in the Stars (The S...

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City of Dreams and Dust

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Surfers

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Finished the first edit of my first screenplay this week! Quite happy with it - boy, is this easier than novel-writing! :-) I guess the harder part will be finding a market for it ...
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“It strikes you that life itself is a lingering form of death. That, given enough pain, having your eyes pecked out might seem a form of release.”
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