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Patrick Cumby

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Patrick Cumby is the recipient of the 2023 Chapter One Prize for fiction, announced March 2023.

Patrick is the author of the Legends of the Known Arc stories and books. He’s a part-time nomad who, along with his frighteningly adventurous wife, loves to explore the world’s little-known corners and meet the extraordinary people who call them home. He's been a bookseller, a dad, a business school professor, a dungeonmaster, an aerospace executive, and the hushpuppy cook at a sketchy seafood joint. He is considered by all who know him to be a very bad dancer.

Patrick’s debut novel, a cross-genre mix of hard-SF and space opera called GRONE, was released in April 2023. He has written for the Star Trek Universe, is a member of the Science Fiction & ...more

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Troody and the Ghast

This short story is set in the Legends of the Known Arc universe. If you enjoy it, please share! Also, drop me a note and let me know what you thought.

When eight-year-old Gertrood Littlefeather is left waiting outside a tense courtroom, she doesn’t expect to meet a real Ghast — one of humanity’s oldest enemies. But as protestors rage and danger creeps closer, Troody discovers that monsters aren

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	GRONE: Legends of the Known Arc Book 1 4.51 avg rating — 441 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
	Star Trek: Strange New Worlds by Dean Wesley Smith (Editor), Patrick Cumby (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.77 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1998 — 13 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
	LONGSTAR: a novel of the Known Arc 4.66 avg rating — 142 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
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“The fiery rhetoric of the church’s new Father Regis had emboldened the city’s poor to demand better. This would be a positive result had it not given the brutes and the sociopaths who lurked in their ranks tacit permission to wreak havoc and terrorize the innocent.”
― Patrick Cumby, GRONE: Legends of the Known Arc Book 1

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“It’s easy to explain away the mysteries of the universe by saying the gods work in mysterious ways that we weren’t meant to understand. But that’s a cop out. I want to know the science. Nature’s ways are mysterious, for sure, but there’s always a truth at the heart of the mystery.”
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