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Mark Lewin

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Born

in London, The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.marklewin.com

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Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

Influences

Gene Wolfe, Stephen King, GK Chesterton, Ted Chiang, Greg Egan

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June 2012

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Tech writer who loves science fiction, fantasy and horror and reading about creative writing without actually writing anything creative.

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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4)

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Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.”
― James Scott Bell, Sins of the Fathers

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“If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don’t be shown up by a baboon”
― James Scott Bell

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“I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.”
― Caitlin R. Kiernan

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