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	Corrupts Absolutely?: Dark Metahuman Fiction by Lincoln Crisler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter Clines (Goodreads Author), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2012 — 8 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
	Times of Trouble: A Time Travel Anthology by Lane Adamson (Editor), Matthew Baugh, Thom Brannan (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Malpractice: an Anthology of Bedside Terror by Nathaniel Lambert (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lee Pederson, Bill West 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2012 by Jeremy Zimmerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dawn Vogel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kathryn Board 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 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 Future Embodied by Jason Andrew (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Gerrold (Goodreads Author), William F. Nolan 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Lovecraft eZine Issue 31 - June 2014 by Mike Davis (Editor), Cameron Johnston (Goodreads Author), Scott Nicolay 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Cosmic Vegetable: Anthology of Humorous SF/F by David Nell (Editor), Adam Millard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Breanna R. Teintze (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Song Stories: Volume 1 by Wakefield Mahon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lou Antonelli, Becky Beard 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	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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Petty: The Biography

by Warren Zanes (Goodreads Author)

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Absolute Batman, Vol. 1: The Zoo

by Scott Snyder (Goodreads Author)

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King Sorrow

by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author)

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Some great ideas and super interesting story but it kind of went off the rails for me about 75% through it. 4 stars for all that it did right up to that point.
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I read the first half of this 12 issue series quite a few years ago and have been meaning to come back to it. Well worth reading the full series. Quite a sad story. Basically Revolutionary Road but with Marvel androids living the doomed suburban life ...more
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DNF. The first chapter is painful. Discovery hearings are awful in real life and somehow Connelly has made it worse by writing about a discovery dispute that doesn't acknowledge the reality of protective orders that enable production of materials und ...more
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Not as strong as book 1 or 2, but Fermin is an interesting character and deserved a telling of his history, even if many of the conflicts were resolved possibly too easily. Sometimes it is enough to get a chance to spend more time with well-loved cha ...more
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