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Eirik Gumeny

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

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Eirik Gumeny is the [insert superlatives here] author of BEGGARS WOULD RIDE and the cult-favorite EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE series. He's written for Cracked, WIRED, Nerdist, SYFY, a couple of medical textbooks and even the New York Times once.

Born with cystic fibrosis, Eirik still has cystic fibrosis, because that's how genetic diseases work. In 2014, he received a double lung transplant and technically died a little. He got better.

Forged in the suburban sprawl of northeastern New Jersey, Eirik currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he regularly has to fight giant atomic ants with a flamethrower. Follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his newsletter for updates.

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	Exponential Apocalypse 3.90 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2009 — 7 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
	Dead Presidents (Exponential Apocalypse Book 2) 4.24 avg rating — 46 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
	Open All Night by Eirik Gumeny (Goodreads Author) (editor), J.A.W. McCarthy (Goodreads Author), Danger Slater (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — 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
	We're Going to Die Here, Aren't We? 4.04 avg rating — 25 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
	High Voltage (Exponential Apocalypse #3) 4.32 avg rating — 22 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
	Devil Went Down to Jersey 4.06 avg rating — 18 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
	Greater Than His Nature by Eirik Gumeny (Goodreads Author) (editor), Katharine Duckett (Goodreads Author), A.T. Greenblatt (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 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 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology by Eirik Gumeny (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jersey Devil Press, Stephen Schwegler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Revenge-aroni (Exponential Apocalypse Book 4) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 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 Greatest Gatsby, or an American Werewolf in West Egg 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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

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This World Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Horror Stories about Bugs

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“They were going to continue to fight for their freedom. They were going to kill for it. Some of them were even willing to dry-hump the corpses if that would help.”
― Eirik Gumeny, Dead Presidents

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“I’m a good, old-fashioned human, forcibly joined with an x-ray eye and a pneumatic penis because I was too stupid to stop fighting.” “Not the damn penis again...” said Thor, writhing on the couch. “What? I’m proud of it, Thor. I can lift a god damned Volkswagen.” “Christ, Mark, now I’m picturing it. And there’s a midget watching you for some reason.”
― Eirik Gumeny, Exponential Apocalypse

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“it probably wasn’t the best idea cross-breeding a werewolf and an atomic mutant, engineering it to be excessively belligerent, starving it, and then insulting its mother repeatedly.”
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Eirik’s Quotes

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

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“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: literature, writing

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“The author waives all liability should you keep reading after you've already decided you're going to hate it.”
― Eirik Gumeny, Devil Went Down to Jersey

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