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S. Boyd Taylor

Goodreads Author

Born

in Austin, TX, The United States

Website

http://www.sboydtaylor.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Literature & Fiction

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August 2011

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S. Boyd Taylor lives in Dallas, TX, with his loving wife and brilliant daughter. He practices internal martial arts (Taiji, Bagua, Xingyi), writes strange stories, investigates random -- usually ancient -- languages without really learning them, and tries to play guitar.

He loves Doctor Who, Monty Python, and nice days on the patio when it's about 75-degrees Fahrenheit. ...more

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S. Boyd Taylor's Blog

Lost in the mist, returning to the light

For the last year, since I nearly died from a rare complication after a routine surgery, I have felt crushed down — a lesser version of the person I was before.

I still completed a novel. I still bent mybrain to learning languages and Go and story structure and poetry and music composition and piano. But memory was slipping away from me. Only bits and pieces would stay. One day I would feel like I

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Average rating: 3.32 · 240 ratings · 50 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Zombiesque by Stephen L. Antczak (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James C. Bassett (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) 3.28 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Teddy Bears and Tea Parties by S. Boyd Taylor (Goodreads Author), Jorge Rodas (Illustrator) 3.28 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 2, 2011-2013: Best of HFQ Volume 2 by Adrian Simmons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Keanan Brand (Goodreads Author), David Farney (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 18 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
	Tales From a Lone Star: A Future Classics Anthology (Volume One) by William Ledbetter (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melanie Fletcher (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jake Kerr (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Spectra Magazine - Issue 1 by Paul Andrews, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author), S. Boyd Taylor (Goodreads Author) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 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

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“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”
― David Brin, The Uplift War

tags: humor

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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
― David Brin

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message 1: by A.R.

Dec 23, 2012 07:24PM

S. Boyd, thanks for the add!

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