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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction

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WHILE STAR WARS and STAR TREK seeded J. Daniel Sawyer's passion for the unknown, his childhood in academia gave him a deep love of history and an obsession with how the future emerges from the past.

This obsession led him through adventures in the film industry, the music industry, venture capital firms in the startup culture of Silicon Valley, and a career creating novels and audiobooks exploring the worlds that assemble themselves in his head.

His travels with bohemians, burners, historians, theologians, and inventors led him eventually to a rural exile where he uses the quiet to write, walk on the beach, and manage a production company that brings innovative stories to the ears of audiences across the world.
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Average rating: 3.93 · 3,066 ratings · 382 reviews · 72 distinct works • Similar authors

	And Then She Was Gone (The Clarke Lantham Mysteries, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Predestination and Other Games of Chance 4.43 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Down From Ten 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Throwing Lead: A Writer's Guide to Firearms by J. Daniel Sawyer (Goodreads Author), Mary Mason, Kitty NicIaian (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Making Tracks: A Writer's Guide to Audiobooks 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	A Ghostly Christmas Present (The Clarke Lantham Mysteries #2) 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Free Will (and Other Compulsions) (The Antithesis Progression, #2) 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Lilith 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Becoming an Every Day Novelist 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 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
	Smoke Rings (The Clarke Lantham Mysteries, #3) 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 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

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“Heinlein’s Juveniles are not alone in this handling of moral choice—many of the classic morality tales written for this audience, from Huckleberry Finn to A Wrinkle in Time to From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to The Outsiders and His Dark Materials, share this moral choice mechanic, and it’s one of the reason these stories remain evergreen, generation after generation.”
― J. Daniel Sawyer, The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile: Uncovering the Hidden Magic of Perennial Young Adult Literature

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“Every thinking being in the universe has his own troubles and his own history, and his actions may not, at first, make sense to you. You must make a good-faith effort to understand someone before you judge them,”
― J. Daniel Sawyer, The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile: Uncovering the Hidden Magic of Perennial Young Adult Literature

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Voting for the August/September 2012 group read. Voting open until Sunday 8/12.

Broken Harbour/Tana French

40 votes, 15.2%

The Cabinet of Curiosities/Douglas Preston

22 votes, 8.4%

Creole Belle/James Lee Burke

21 votes, 8.0%

Where the Bodies Are Buried/Christopher Brookmyre

16 votes, 6.1%

The End of the Wasp Season/Denise Mina

15 votes, 5.7%

The Last Kind Words/Tom Piccirilli

13 votes, 4.9%

No Time for Goodbye/Linwood Barclay

13 votes, 4.9%

Raven Black/Ann Cleeves

13 votes, 4.9%

Rain Fall/Barry Eisler

12 votes, 4.6%

Mr. Churchill's Secretary/ Susan Elia MacNeal

11 votes, 4.2%

Joe/H.D. Gordon

10 votes, 3.8%

Killer Instinct/Zoë Sharp

10 votes, 3.8%

Drop By Drop: A Thriller / Keith Raffel

8 votes, 3.0%

Marker/Robin Cook

8 votes, 3.0%

Now You See Me/S.J. Bolton

7 votes, 2.7%

Creep/Jennifer Hillier

7 votes, 2.7%

Suffer the Children/John Saul

7 votes, 2.7%

Virginia Creeper/Blaine Pardoe

6 votes, 2.3%

The Twelfth Imam / /Joel C. Rosenberg

5 votes, 1.9%

Death of an Old Git/Andrea Frazer

4 votes, 1.5%

The Survival of Thomas Ford/John A.A. Logan

4 votes, 1.5%

Boston Cream / Howard Shrier

3 votes, 1.1%

The Gigolo Murder/Mehmet Murat Somer

3 votes, 1.1%

And Then She Was Gone/J. Daniel Sawyer

3 votes, 1.1%

The Baptism of Billy Bean/Roger Alan Skipper

2 votes, 0.8%

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