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Lawrence N. Oliver

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Born

in Arlington, TX., The United States

Website

https://www.lawrencenoliver.com/

Genre

Science Fiction, Fiction, Ebooks

Member Since

October 2014

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Lawrence N. Oliver struggled in school. He has dyslexia and he hated reading, especially aloud. So, his father bought him a copy of The Foundation and The Hobbit. He can’t remember which was first but he fell in love with the genres. He'd always had a vivid imagination and a daydreamer’s attention span, they'd have called it ADD were he in school today. Even now he catches himself staring out of the window thinking about his characters, their misadventures and the other worlds they inhabit.
As he grew up it was life, responsibilities and procrastination that had kept him from ever putting any of his daydreams down on paper.
One day he found himself home alone with a few days off work. He was reading a book, sitting by the window in his overs ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 125 ratings · 38 reviews · 4 distinct works

	THE LAST MARINES 3.93 avg rating — 55 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
	Contact This! A First Contact Anthology by Paul Elard Cooley (Goodreads Author), Chris Winder (Goodreads Author), Walt Robillard 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2019 — 6 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
	Storming Area 51 (A Bayonet Books Anthology, #2) by J.R. Handley (Goodreads Author), C.J. Carella (Goodreads Author), J.W. Kiefer (Goodreads Author) 4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	From the Ashes by Terry Mixon (Goodreads Author), Rick Partlow (Goodreads Author), Devon C. Ford (Goodreads Author) 4.91 avg rating — 11 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

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“As I said, the Esoli Na was damaged. It had been in orbit around one of their colony planets they call Camillus, when it was attacked by the Nineteenth. The Gar Rei had not joined in any significant conflict with the Nineteenth for some time leading up to the attack and were taken by surprise. Mistakes were made, and many ships were lost attempting to defend the colony.”

“Oh yeah? Good. Fuck ’em,” Corbin replied.”
― Lawrence N. Oliver

tags: military-science-fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space-opera

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“Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

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tags: military-science-fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, space-opera

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