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Don Berry

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Don Berry



Primarily known for his historical novels of early Oregon country -- Trask, Moontrap, and To Build a Ship -- Don Berry lived and worked from 1974 until his death in 2001 as a writer, painter, musician, sculptor, instrument maker, poet, and Zen practitioner on Vashon Island, in Seattle, and at Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island. He ventured into educational software in the pioneering days of computers, authored scripts for adventure films, wrote commissioned books, and built a website called Berryworks for his own unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and philosophy. Berry developed his writing skills with science fiction stories in the 1950s, but it is his trilogy of novels and his non-fiction history A Majority of Scoundrels (all writte ...more

Average rating: 4.06 · 794 ratings · 132 reviews · 54 distinct worksSimilar authors
Trask

4.06 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1960 — 18 editions
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Moontrap

4.15 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1962 — 14 editions
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To Build a Ship

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1977 — 11 editions
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A Majority of Scoundrels: A...

4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1971 — 18 editions
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Moontrap, The Coast of Oreg...

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Sound of Terror

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The Abridged Version of "Ma...

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Routine for a Hornet

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings4 editions
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The Lowell Story: A Communi...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985
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Sound of Terror and three m...

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Trask Moontrap To Build a Ship
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“If he could just get rid of the harsh irritation of his conscious thinking, then he would be all right; then he would be at peace”
Don Berry, Trask

“He saw a world he had not seen before; a world made not for mastery but for living. Once seen it was a very simple thing to understand. The wonder was that he had been so blind.”
Don Berry, Trask

“A black bird of guilt hovers over the death of a man, waiting to perch where it may find room in the minds that remain. It is an easy thing to be deceived by the happenings of the world into believing you are responsible for them. It is part of man's great conceit that he can believe himself responsible for the universe and its actions. It is a part of his conceit that he can believe himself guilty of the death of every other man, and take the guilt of the world on himself.

But there is no guilt to be taken. it is not necessary that the responsibility be assigned. It is not the concern of those who remain, but a thing between the world and the one who is dead. that which was, is not. It is a simple thing.”
Don Berry, Trask

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