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Daniel Ellrick

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in Kansas City, The United States

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Science Fiction

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Mary Robinette Kowal
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Daniel Ellrick grew up on a Missouri farm, which gifted him with mud between his toes, a talent for spotting morel mushrooms hiding among fallen oak leaves, and basic life skills like milking cows, shucking corn, and cleaning fish. Farm life teaches the value of hard work, and Dan added sales and fry cook jobs to his resume by the age of fourteen. Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, and Niven were among his faithful companions by night and by day.

A series of entirely too probable events led Dan into the Marine Corps for a twenty-year career of repairing radar jammers, telling fighter pilots where to go, and enduring meetings with defense contractors about real and vaporware systems they were intent on selling to the government. In repeated a ...more

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	Dialing Earth (Interstellar Refugees Book 1) by Daniel Ellrick (Goodreads Author), Rosemary Lawton (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 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
	Acting Human (Interstellar Refugees Book 2) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
	Finding Friends (Interstellar Refugees Book 3) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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
	Mars Colony Rescue (Interstellar Refugees Book 4) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Daniel Ellrick liked Fin Jones's review of Dialing Earth (Interstellar Refugees Book 1): "I really loved this book. I read a lot of sci-fi. For me, the ideal sci-fi novel 1) explores interesting scientific and philosophical ideas and 2) shows real human reactions to these speculative situations through characters you care about. I think mos" Read more of this review »
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Daniel Ellrick liked Marti Ward's review of Acting Human (Interstellar Refugees Book 2): "Are we dealing with two new sentient species? As ambassador to the alien refugees, Miharu is making friends — and enemies — in high places: both in a political sense and in terms of a transfer orbit between Jupiter and Earth via Uranus. And her poker " Read more of this review »
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Daniel Ellrick liked Marti Ward's review of Dialing Earth (Interstellar Refugees Book 1): "If you don’t know what email is, ask your grandparents. Set 15 years into our future, Miharu is a would-be astronomer who has dreamt of making first contact all her life, and is trying to finish her PhD without the help of her personal AI, Addy. AIs a" Read more of this review »
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Daniel Ellrick liked Anna's review of Dialing Earth (Interstellar Refugees Book 1): "This was a fun read and a great start to a new series! What I look for first in science-fiction is an interesting premise, and this book sure delivers. What if alien refugees headed for earth before they knew it was inhabited and now can't change cou" Read more of this review »
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Daniel Ellrick wants to read The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord	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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