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Brian Pinkerton

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Brian Pinkerton is the author of Abducted, Vengeance, Rough Cut, Killer’s Diary, How I Started the Apocalypse, Bender, Anatomy of Evil and The Gemini Experiment. Select titles have also been released as audio books, ebooks and in foreign languages.

Brian’s short stories have appeared in anthologies including Chicago Blues, PULP! and Zombie Zoology. His screenplays have finished in the top 100 of Project Greenlight and top two percent of the Nicholl Fellowship of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His academic background includes the Iowa Writers Workshop and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. His web site, brianpinkerton.com, includes his cartoon series The Ruts.
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Average rating: 4.0 · 2,427 ratings · 408 reviews · 21 distinct worksSimilar authors
Abducted

4.14 avg rating — 1,125 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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Killer's Diary

3.92 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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The Nirvana Effect

3.99 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions
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The Perfect Stranger

3.92 avg rating — 100 ratings4 editions
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The Gemini Experiment

4.06 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions
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Anatomy of Evil

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Bender

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Vengeance

4.04 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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A.I. is stealing my novels to feed bogus books by fake authors

The Atlantic recently exposed a database of books being used to train A.I. and populate A.I.’s content library, which enables anyone to create, distribute and sell derivative works assembled from the creative efforts of others without their permission or compensation. This is also known as theft.

I gained access to the database and searched it to see if any of my own books were included. And the an Read more of this blog post »
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"Holy crap, THE PERFECT STRANGER is PERFECT! I read this tight sci-fi thriller - the premise of which is seemingly only months from potential reality – in just a few days because I honestly could not put it down. I'd be long past bedtime and saying, "" Read more of this review »
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"A real page turner with scary ideas about what can happen when evil people use AI and deepfake avatars to serve their purposes."
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The realism of the well developed characters and the vivid reality of the post Covid world make what should be an unbelievably fantastic story all too real for comfort. Despite my growing horror, it was impossible not to follow Linda’s fate " Read more of this review »
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A rich array of stories gliding across time and place, ranging from whimsical fables to poignant character studies, casually linked by the thread of baseball. Holdefer is a wonderful writer, and I look forward to revisiting these endearing slices of ...more
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“She has a job where she is around swarms of people all day long, and she’s still lonely. He”
Brian Pinkerton, Bender

“Every day we pray. We pray to God for acceptance. We pray to escape the relentless grip of technology on our flesh and blood. We pray that we may once again worship the natural beauty of God’s earth over the cold hardware of the computer. We know the Antichrist bears a birthmark and it is the chip. I am blessed to tell you today that your prayers have been answered. God delivered a miracle. I have received word that the chip no longer controls the soul. The devil in the sky has been brought down. God is victorious once again. He has heard your prayers. We may now reenter society without being demonized. The world is blessed again with the Lord’s grace.”
Brian Pinkerton, The Nirvana Effect

“When the nights produced echoes of daytime rituals, she woke up exhausted by her employer without achieving anything. Instead of shutting down at bedtime, her brainwaves entered an anxiety screensaver she couldn’t uninstall.”
Brian Pinkerton, The Perfect Stranger

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