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C.C. Finlay

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Former Editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Author of The Prodigal Troll, the Traitor to the Crown Series, and Wild Things, plus dozens of short stories. World Fantasy Award Winner, and finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Sidewise, Sturgeon, and Locus Awards. Teacher at Clarion and elsewhere.

Married to novelist Rae Carson.

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A Sad Day for Penn State, But Promises of Something Brighter

Last November I suggested that circumstantial evidence in the Penn State case indicated that Joe Paterno used his influence to cover-up cases of child sexual abuse committed by one of his coaches, and that university leaders probably went willingly along with it. http://ccfinlay.livejournal.com/189381.html

Today, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was hired by Penn State to investigate the case, Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.81 · 8,821 ratings · 1,573 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Patriot Witch (Traitor to the Crown, #1) 3.34 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	A Spell for the Revolution (Traitor to the Crown, #2) 3.58 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	The Demon Redcoat (Traitor to the Crown, #3) 3.56 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Issue 720, July/August, 2015 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Pollack (Contributor), Gregor Hartmann (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2018 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Hughes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Corey Flintoff (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2020 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author), Gordon Van Gelder, Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 105 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2020 (F&SF, #747) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alexander C. Irvine, Essa Hansen (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2019 (F&SF, #745) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Link, Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Issue 729, January/February 2017 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Pollack, Nina Kiriki Hoffman 3.72 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2017 — 4 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2020 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Kessel (Contributor), David Erik Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2020 — 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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“Palm Strike's main superpower is the stupidity of his enemies. He”
― C.C. Finlay, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2014

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“There is this about lifts and elevators. People become resigned and indifferent. They fall silent and stare at the numbers, unable to acknowledge the existence of any others who might momentarily share the same space—it is the latency spell of the enclosure. People retreat into their internal spaces as a defense against the collapse of personal boundaries.”
― C.C. Finlay, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2020

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“I barely managed to suppress my snort. The most important thing a woman could be was beautiful, and he knew it as well as I. It was in the stories we told, in the songs we sang—and it was there because those things came from deep within us, from a turning toward beauty that no person was immune from. Too deep to extract, too solid to ignore.”
― C.C. Finlay, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2020

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