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Brock Meier

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F. Buechner, C.S. Lewis, C. Raswan, A. Dillard, M. l’Engle

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After a half-century career of scientific research in infrared, lasers, and human vision, award-winning author Brock Meier now devotes himself to finding the incredible, untold stories of little-known people from centuries past. Written, cultural, and material history are the springboard from which he imagines engaging and powerful new stories for today. Come with him on his journeys, as his "Stories Begin Where the History Ends."

His debut novel, The Stone Cutter, received the Historical Fiction Company’s Gold Award for 2023 best book set in the ancient world.

When not writing, Brock Meier finds time to make exotic wines and experimental desserts as he listens to jazz, opera, and classical music—all while thinking about where the next story
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Brock Meier My life is replate with mysteries ready for exploration as novels, and these are some of them:

How beats, a leathern heart,
or thinks, an aspic brain…more
My life is replate with mysteries ready for exploration as novels, and these are some of them:

How beats, a leathern heart,
or thinks, an aspic brain?
How loves, a wooden soul,
or sings, a dead refrain?
How flies, a fallen bird
to sun on broken wing?
How lives, a dying man,
or rules, a landless king?
How breathes, an iron lung,
or stands, a jellied spine?
How spins, a broken top,
or bears, a withered vine?
How fruits the barren womb,
or laughs, the widowed bride?
How runs, the dusty brook,
whose waters long have dried?
How lives, this man of death,
or cares, this heart of clay?
How draw, I, living breath
at start of every day?
Only One calls nothingness
as tho’ it were a thing,
and then He call the never-ness
to always ever-ing!(less)
Brock Meier I would follow in the footsteps (or flight-path) of Elwin Ransom and find myself on the lush, virgin planet of Perelandra. While there, I would travel…moreI would follow in the footsteps (or flight-path) of Elwin Ransom and find myself on the lush, virgin planet of Perelandra. While there, I would travel the planet’s warm seas, mounted upon the backs of sentient silver fishes, seeking the audience of the King and his Queen. I would interview them as to how things transpired after they vanquished the attack of Earth’s Black Archon.(less)
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Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color is sort of a Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" for the world of color. (if you are not old enough to be familiar with Paul Harvey, radio hall-of-famer, I'm sorry for your loss)

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Thirst: is a useful introduction to how the harvesting and control of water resources have dramatically affected world history and the rise and fall of cultures.

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Although some have noted a lack of narrative continuity, that was not my impression. The compilation of the many accounts have their own chaotic tempo which somewhat matches the chaotic tempo of the monster storm itself. And the various eyewitness ac ...more
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“We made our home on the wind, between sand and stars.”
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“Can one be lost, when no destination awaits? When no home longs for one’s return?”
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“The story…travels wheresoever the truth shepherds it. It possesses no rudder that I might lay my hand upon, to guide it wherever I choose. I am at its mercy”
Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“At last, everything comes to its own end…All things must die. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll, and time itself will be closed like a tomb.”
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“To produce a masterpiece requires grand ideas, unswerving commitment to the dream, years of sweat and pain…Such beauty does not come cheaply.”
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“Some might be swayed by clever answers, but true accomplishments will always outweigh cunning.”
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“For any story to be worth the telling—or the hearing—it must spring from the truth. If not, it is nothing more than the final flow of the Yorden, as its fresh waters are swallowed up in the undrinkable tears of the Salt Sea.”
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“The story…travels wheresoever the truth shepherds it. It possesses no rudder that I might lay my hand upon, to guide it wherever I choose. I am at its mercy”
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