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Teika Marija Smits

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Teika Marija Smits is a UK-based freelance editor and the author of the short story collections Umbilical (NewCon Press), which was shortlisted for the 2024 Rubery Book Award, and Waterlore (Black Shuck Books), as well as the poetry pamphlet Russian Doll (Indigo Dreams Publishing). In 2024 she edited the We-inspired speculative fiction anthology The Utopia of Us (Luna Press Publishing) to celebrate the centenary of the first publication of Zamyatin’s We. Most recently, she was the winner of the British Fantasy Society’s Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. She is delighted that ‘Teika’ means fairy tale in Latvian.

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	Best of British Science Fiction 2018 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alastair Reynolds, Lavie Tidhar 4.01 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Umbilical (Polestars Book 2) 4.68 avg rating — 19 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
	Waterlore 4.21 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
	Best of British Science Fiction 2023 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2024	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 Utopia of Us: An anthology inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin's We 4.33 avg rating — 9 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
	Reckoning 3 by Michael J. DeLuca (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Contributor), Danika Dinsmore (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Uncharted Constellations by Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Emma Lee, James Walton (Goodreads Author) 4.60 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
	Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 19, Winter 2020/21 by Noel Chidwick (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian Watson (Contributor), Tony Ballantyne (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Dreamland: Other Stories by Sophie Essex (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kirsty Logan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Taylor Sykes (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021	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
	Russian Doll it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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

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My Favourite Books of 2025

My January was pretty busy with trying to meet various deadlines (including the dreaded tax return) so it’s only now that I’ve managed to consider all the books I read in 2025 and to put together a list of favourites. Looks like it was another great year for reading!

The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan

Nina Allan’s stories are exquisite. Atmospheric and rich with the beauty of the everyday, they a

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Teika Smits is now friends with Emma Jake
Feb 26, 2026 02:46AM · like
Teika Smits liked Andrew's review of The Lighthouse at the End of the World (Cities of the Drift, #1): "I'm reviewing this book for ParSec magazine and will post the full review here once the edition has been published. In short, I enjoyed it a lot."
Feb 26, 2026 02:33AM · see review
Teika Smits made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Adding my name to anthology One Million Times topic " Hi there! My name appears as Teika Smits on the author list of the anthology One Million Times, but I would like it to be listed as Teika Marija Smits ...more "
Feb 25, 2026 02:17PM
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Teika Smits and 3 other people liked Runalong's review of Brides in the Dark: "A refreshing and smart tale on old fairy stories with a male character for a change having to decide what world he wants to be a part of. Highly recommended! Full review - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/bl..." Read more of this review »
Feb 25, 2026 01:40PM · see review
Teika Smits liked Kate Garrett's review of Sundial:
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Teika Smits made a comment on My Favourite Books of 2025 " Thanks for your comment, Leigh! Maybe you should dig out those Three Investigators books... some of them go for a pretty penny on Ebay! "
Feb 06, 2026 03:27PM · see blog post
Teika Smits made a comment on Eamonn Murphy’s review of The Creator " I very much enjoyed this novella too. "
Nov 10, 2025 12:36PM · see review
Teika Smits is now following Rogelio Fojo Author of One Million Times: A Science Fiction Anthology ...
May 26, 2025 04:27AM · like
Teika Smits answered A Goodreads user's question: Why is your book "One Million Times" not listed here? Good question! I guess that when the publishing data of the anthology was put into Amazon/Goodreads there might have been a technical error meaning my name was omitted from the list of contributors. I will try to look into it, but can't promise anyth See Full Answer
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“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, escape, reading

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“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

tags: life, love, passion, writing

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“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of their books and toss them around. Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation. Nowhere in Russia has that stage been reached. Europe has been binding its books for sometime.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

tags: bookbinding, books

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“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce