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Tom Over is a reptilian limbic system currently manipulating a hominid cortex somewhere in Manchester, UK. The Comfort Zone and Other Safe Spaces is his first book. He is not on Twitter.

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	Shallow Waters, Vol. 1 by Joe Mynhardt (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author), Tracy Fahey (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2019	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 Comfort Zone and Other Safe Spaces 4.48 avg rating — 64 ratings — 3 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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	Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg by Chris Kelso (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Leo Rice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jonathan Greenaway 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Horror Sleaze Trash: Prose in Poor Taste Vol. 2 by Arthur Graham (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joseph Ridgwell, Mick Rose 4.63 avg rating — 16 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
	Fucked Up Stories to Read in the Daytime by Ira Rat (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Richard (Goodreads Author), Madeleine Swann (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 12 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
	The Mad Butterfly's Ball by Preston Grassmann (Editor), Chris Kelso (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tom Over (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 11 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
	GRUESOME by Aphotic Realm, Damascus Mincemeyer, Joe Koch (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 9 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
	Stories Only A Mother Could Love by Cody Sexton, G.C. McKay (Goodreads Author), Tom Over (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 9 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
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The Unlimited Dream Company

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Tom Over and 10 other people liked Bill Hsu's review of Scorpions: "I'm very impressed that this was written by a young Japanese woman in the late '60s. Maybe this is still "a shockingly transgressive text," but it's hard for me to be disturbed while the narrators blithely go on about incest and matricide. [3.5 stars," Read more of this review »
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Tom Over wants to read Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth! by Mark Jaskowski (Goodreads Author)	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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Tom Over and 11 other people liked Curtis's review of R i t u a l: "You can't wake up without a scalding coffee enema. Life is hard, that's why you bash your head against it. Poetry is stupid until it isn't. This guy wrote a book with Blake Butler, so I wasn't confused so much as confused. Can you help me apply this " Read more of this review »
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Tom Over liked Books For Decaying Millennials's review of Shrieks in Cups of Gold: " Received this book as part of the WeirdPunk Books SubClub. Support the independent, support the weird. All views and opinions are my own. - Going into reading Shrieks in Cups of Gold, I was not familiar with the work of Katherine Dunn. I had heard r" Read more of this review »
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Tom Over and 4 other people liked Curtis's review of The Song of Synth: "Give me all of the sci-fi drugs! The synth, the spice, the Pineapple Express—all of them! "
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