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Will McIntosh

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult

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Will McIntosh is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction author, and a winner or finalist of many other awards. His alien invasion novel Defenders, is currently optioned for a feature film, while his Middle Grades novel The Classmate has been optioned for a TV series by Disney/ABC.

Along with ten novels that have been translated into nine different languages, Will has published over sixty short stories in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed.

Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full time. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is the father of twins. You can follow him on Twitter @willmcintoshSF. ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 27,347 ratings · 3,309 reviews · 79 distinct works • Similar authors

	Love Minus Eighty 3.82 avg rating — 3,024 ratings — published 2013 — 12 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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	Burning Midnight 3.63 avg rating — 2,032 ratings — published 2016 — 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
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WATCHDOG Release Day - And Big News!

Today, my book WATCHDOG is being released by Penguin Random House, and I'm excited to finally be able to announce that it is being developed for an animated TV series! The creative team behind Dreamworks' HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON TV series, Art Brown and Douglas Sloan, are overseeing the project. Sonar Entertainment, the production company currently adapting Stephen King's MR. MERCEDES for Televis Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 10, 2017 07:00 • Tags: middle-grades, robots, watchdog

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Quotes by Will McIntosh (?)

“Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.”
― Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse

tags: funny, humor, sarcastic

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“The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

tags: heartbreak

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“It's funny. Friendships are Catch twenty-twos when you're single and in your thirties. Friends are your life rafts. You try to help each other meet people, you confide in each other, you spend Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, all those emotional land-mine holidays together. But sooner or later one of you is going to meet someone and be gone into the world of couples.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

tags: friendship-and-love, relationships, thirties

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Polls

SEPTEMBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books move on to the run-off poll for September SF Book of the Month

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

18 votes, 24.7%

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

13 votes, 17.8%

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

13 votes, 17.8%

Natural History by Justina Robson

9 votes, 12.3%

Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh

9 votes, 12.3%

City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams

7 votes, 9.6%

All the Lives He Led by Frederik Pohl

4 votes, 5.5%

73 total votes

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