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Robert Kroese

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in Grand Rapids, MI, The United States

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Humor, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Philosophy

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Robert Kroese's sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan - home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply. In second grade, he wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write h ...more

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	Mercury Falls (Mercury #1) 3.65 avg rating — 4,760 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Disenchanted (Land of Dis, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 2,478 ratings — published 2012 — 11 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
	Starship Grifters (Rex Nihilo, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 2,230 ratings — published 2014 — 10 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
	Mercury Rises (Mercury #2) 3.88 avg rating — 1,923 ratings — published 2011 — 9 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
	Mercury Rests (Mercury #3) 3.93 avg rating — 1,310 ratings — published 2012 — 15 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 Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 1,365 ratings — published 2016 — 9 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 Dream of the Iron Dragon (Saga of the Iron Dragon #1) 4.14 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 2018 — 5 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
	Mercury Swings (Mercury #0.6) 3.65 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 2011	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
	Mercury Begins (Mercury #0.5) 3.89 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 2012	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
	Aye, Robot (Starship Grifters #2) 4.11 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 2017 — 5 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 Essential Austrian Economics

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Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market: Government and Economy

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

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“These days she tended to think of herself as a Heisenbergian Christian: she believed in the broad outlines of Christianity, but she was unable to pinpoint the specifics of her creed. She was OK with the wave; it was the particles that tended to escape her.”
― Robert Kroese, Mercury Falls

tags: christianity

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“...And I can't promise anything, you understand, but there's always a chance he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean."
"Wow, that would be terrific," I said.”
― Robert Kroese, Starship Grifters

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“It was never a good thing when a bad guy started quoting Nietzsche.”
― Robert Kroese, The Big Sheep

tags: nietzsche, villains

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Polls

September Science Fiction -- The following poll decides which book will be our Science Fiction Book of the Month for September 2019

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

15 votes, 25.4%

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear

13 votes, 22.0%

Excession by Iain M. Banks

10 votes, 16.9%

We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor

9 votes, 15.3%

Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker

5 votes, 8.5%

No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop

4 votes, 6.8%

Starship Grifters by Robert Kroese

3 votes, 5.1%

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“Leibniz was somewhat mean about money. When any young lady at the court of Hanover married, he used to give her what he called a "wedding present," consisting of useful maxims, ending up with the advice not to give up washing now that she had secured a husband. History does not record whether the brides were grateful. ”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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