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Joel Shepherd

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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 · 38,599 ratings · 1,787 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	Renegade (The Spiral Wars, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 5,161 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 — 3,824 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 — 3,129 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Defiance (The Spiral Wars, #4) 4.38 avg rating — 2,848 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Crossover (Cassandra Kresnov, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 3,040 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 — 2,335 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 — 2,056 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 — 2,099 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) 4.40 avg rating — 1,705 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
	Breakaway (Cassandra Kresnov, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 1,746 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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January 2014 -- Fantasy

This poll decides which two books will go on to the second round of voting for Beyond Reality's Fantasy Book of the Month for January 2014.

Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear

24 votes, 27.9%

Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

15 votes, 17.4%

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

14 votes, 16.3%

Greenmantle by Charles de Lint

14 votes, 16.3%

The Pastel City by M. John Harrison

10 votes, 11.6%

Sasha by Joel Shepherd

6 votes, 7.0%

Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

3 votes, 3.5%

86 total votes

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