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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) 3.92 avg rating — 185 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 — 63 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
	Myopiatropolis 4.26 avg rating — 34 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
	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
	Stories Only A Mother Could Love by Cody Sexton (Goodreads Author), 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
	Look At Our Holes: An Anthology of Voids & Orifices by Juan Valencia (Editor, Contributor), Josh Simmons (Contributor), Brendan Vidito (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2025	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) 4.63 avg rating — 8 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 Bumper Book of British Bizarro by British Bizarro Community, Die Booth (Goodreads Author), LoFi Guy (Artist) 4.11 avg rating — 9 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
	Fucked Up Stories to Read in the Daytime by Ira Rat (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Richard (Goodreads Author), Madeleine Swann (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 8 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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Where Furnaces Burn

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Tom Over and 6 other people liked Bill Hsu's review of Uncertain Sons and Other Stories: "I loved Ha's "Alabama Circus Punk" (in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, and was very excited to come across this. The stories I've read are a kind of dark, open-ended science fiction that address real issues in our messy, broken world; the" Read more of this review »
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Tom Over wants to read The Midnight Muse by Jo Kaplan (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 8 other people liked Curtis's review of There Is No Antimemetics Division: "2025 Edition Update: Oops!… I Read It Again Original 2023 review: Fast, fun , and trippy. I DNF'd this in the past and the tail end still drags on reread but at least I finished this time. Worth reading, but overly reliant on Memento-style twists." Read more of this review »
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Tom Over rated a book it was amazing Until the Sun by Chandler Morrison (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
Top marks for the prose alone. This guy really is head and shoulders above the rest of the “extreme” crowd in terms of writing ability. While less edgelordy than Dead Inside and not as cold and detached as Along the Path of Torment, this work felt mo ...more
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