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Joe Clifford Faust

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Joe Clifford Faust is an American author best known for his seven science fiction novels primarily written during the 1980s and 1990s, including A Death of Honor, The Company Man, the Angel's Luck Trilogy (all published by Del Rey Books), and the satirical Pembroke Hall novels (published by Bantam Spectra). His novels are known for their tightly controlled plots and their sense of humor. Like many authors, he draws inspiration from previous and current occupations, including projectionist, record store clerk, radio announcer, sheriff's dispatcher, and advertising copywriter. He currently works in advertising, but keeps his hand in writing and through other creative projects such as occasional forays into cartooning and songwriting.

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A DEATH OF HONOR

3.64 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions
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Desperate Measures (Angel's...

3.70 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
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Drawing Down The Moon

3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Precious Cargo (Angel's Luc...

3.62 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions
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The Company Man

3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions
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Ferman's Devils

3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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The Essence of Evil: (#3) (...

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Boddekker's Demons

3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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The Mushroom Shift

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A Monmouth Novel?

In gearing up to put Area 52 on your night tables, I’ve found myself dithering over a minor detail. I’ve been thinking for a while about putting the words “A Monmouth Novel” across the bottom of the front cover.

It makes sense to me because the main character, Clarence Raymond Monmouth (Ray to everyone who knows him) is at the end of his career as a LEO, one that was near its start in my novel 

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The War in the Air by H.G. Wells
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The Good: This is easily Wells' most prescient novel. Just five years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, he envisioned that the next war would take place in the air, fought primarily with Zeppelin-type airships along side of crudities that we w ...more
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I have to wonder how much of the deification of Mr. Gagarin the author was able to cut through in writing this biography - the man is revered in Russia, even to this day, decades after his death. Yes, he recounts the drunkenness and adulteries, but Y ...more
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
"Crowe may be a writer, but I would recommend coming to this like you would to any celebrity memoir. Structure is not the point, a real arc is hard to find. What it's for is to share the best stories. And, in this case, it's very specific. This book r" Read more of this review »
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So I'm a huge fan of Crowe's film Almost Famous who doesn't have much use for any of the other films of his I've seen. Nonetheless, I was looking forward to this to see if there were any new insights about his time as a music journalist and his caree ...more
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The fake's Progress by Tom Keating
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I came to this book by way of a rabbit hole that started with a prog rock song - Judas Unrepentant by Big Big Train, which is a condensed telling of Tom Keating's tale..

As a creative, Keating's story is fascinating - and maddening. And if his part of
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No Angel by Jay Dobyns
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"I realized in that single moment that the brotherhood the Hells Angels claimed to be a part of was nothing more than a support group for misunderstood loners held together by hate and money."

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Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
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Man, it's Elmore Leonard.

The guy is a master.

There's a reason he's my favorite fiction author.

Just read it.
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“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.”
― Joe Clifford Faust

“I didn’t want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I wasn’t interested in the people who shaped the future. I was more interested in people who were shaped by the future. People who were products of their environment.”
― Joe Clifford Faust

“The rattling”
― Joe Clifford Faust, Drawing Down The Moon

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