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Joel Shepherd

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Joel Shepherd is an Australian science fiction author. He moved to Perth, Western Australia with his family when he was seven, where he later studied film and television arts at Curtin University. He now lives in Adelaide.

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Average rating: 4.24 · 36,378 ratings · 1,680 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	Renegade (The Spiral Wars, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 4,837 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Drysine Legacy (The Spiral Wars, #2) 4.34 avg rating — 3,608 ratings — published 2015 — 7 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
	Kantovan Vault (The Spiral Wars, #3) 4.25 avg rating — 2,954 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Defiance (The Spiral Wars, #4) 4.38 avg rating — 2,692 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Crossover (Cassandra Kresnov, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 2,965 ratings — published 2001 — 18 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
	Croma Venture (The Spiral Wars, #5) 4.32 avg rating — 2,193 ratings — published 2018 — 8 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
	Rando Splicer (The Spiral Wars, #6) 4.43 avg rating — 1,916 ratings — published 2019 — 7 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
	Sasha (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 2,063 ratings — published 2007 — 16 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
	Qalea Drop (The Spiral Wars, #7) 4.41 avg rating — 1,580 ratings — published 2020 — 7 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
	Breakaway (Cassandra Kresnov, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 1,708 ratings — published 2002 — 16 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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Complexity Changes the Nature of Things

I think I first heard it during a YouTube discussion with Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Naval Ravikant, and I’m pretty sure it was Naval who laid it out in the following way…

‘Sufficiently complex systems express themselves differently at different levels of complexity’.

And I had one of those rare intellectual moments where my jaw dropped open, and I paused the video and stared at a wall for the next t

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“You mean one human is good, but a hundred humans is bad?"

"Exactly. One human is just a person. A hundred humans make a society. And societies have kings, and religions and priests, and all these other things serrin completely fail to understand”
― Joel Shepherd, Petrodor

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“He said we're all going to die,'
'And what did you say?'
'I said that's why i'm here”
― Joel Shepherd (Tracato), Tracato

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“It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.”
― Joel Shepherd, Tracato

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DECEMBER FANTASY: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run off poll for the December 2014 Fantasy BOTM.

The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham

21 votes, 24.1%

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

17 votes, 19.5%

The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip

13 votes, 14.9%

Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

9 votes, 10.3%

Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn

9 votes, 10.3%

Sasha by Joel Shepherd

7 votes, 8.0%

Grunts by Mary Gentle

6 votes, 6.9%

The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

5 votes, 5.7%

87 total votes

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