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Jamie Todd Rubin

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Science Fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction

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Jamie Todd Rubin writes fiction and nonfiction for a variety of publications including Analog, Clarkesworld, The Daily Beast, 99U, Daily Science Fiction, Lightspeed, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and several anthologies. He was featured in Lifehacker’s How I Work series. He has been blogging since 2005. By day, he manages software projects and occasionally writes code. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and three children. Find him on Twitter at @jamietr. ...more

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The New Typewriter

I bought for myself, as a belated holiday gift, a brand new Royal Scriptor II Portable Electric Typewriter. I’ve been yearning for a working typewriter1 for at least a year now. What finally pushed me to make the purchase was my recent realization that I’ve spent at least a third of my life for the last 34 years looking at screens. Looking for ways to cut back, a typewriter seemed an ideal comprom

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Average rating: 3.65 · 158 ratings · 40 reviews · 12 distinct works

	InterGalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes by Orson Scott Card (Narrator), Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2013 — 6 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
	Funny Horror by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Esther M. Friesner, Mike Resnick 4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Beyond The Sun by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg 3.81 avg rating — 36 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
	Descended from Darkness (Book of Apex, #1) by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gill Ainsworth (Editor), Lavie Tidhar (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 35 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
	Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 86, November 2013 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Reed (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Maggie Clark (Contributor/Pseudonym) 3.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	If By Reason of Strength 3.59 avg rating — 22 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
	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show: Sample Issue (2015) by Edmund R. Schubert (Editor), Marina J. Lostetter (Goodreads Author), James Beamon (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015	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
	In the Cloud 3.50 avg rating — 6 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
	When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007	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
	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 131, Issue 6, June 2011 by Stanley Schmidt (Editor), Edward M. Lerner (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David D. Levine (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 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

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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President

by Noah Feldman

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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

by Humphrey Carpenter

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40k Book Club: If By Reason of Strength - Technothriller, Science Fiction	1	11	Oct 06, 2011 12:04PM
40k Book Club: An Engaging Story Where Metaphores Can Trap You	1	5	Jan 27, 2012 12:04AM
Adventures in Sci...: AISFP 253 - Jamie Todd Rubin, BEYOND THE SUN	1	3	Apr 08, 2014 06:18AM
40k Book Club: * Our Authors in the Club	22	115	Mar 26, 2020 11:05AM

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Jamie’s Quotes

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
― Seneca, Natural Questions