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Nathan Shumate

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Nathan Shumate is a Utah author, small-press publisher, assemblage artist and dilettante (although he prefers the term “Renaissance Man”). He has written (and gotten paid for) comic books, screenplays, and various forms of fiction and non-fiction. His short stories have appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories, the anthology Monsters & Mormons, and other venues. He is the publisher and instigator of the Lovecraftian pulp space opera Space Eldritch anthologies. His most recent book is The Shadow Over Vinland, and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, released June 2024. He also unleashed LousyBookCovers.com onto the world, and consults with self-publishing authors at CoverCritics.com about effective indie book cover design. ...more

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	Space Eldritch II by Nathan Shumate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michaelbrent Collings (Goodreads Author), Larry Correia 3.97 avg rating — 149 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
	Redneck Eldritch by Nathan Shumate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jason A. Anderson, D.J. Butler (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Arcane by Nathan Shumate (Goodreads Author), Thomas Allein, Brady Golden 3.73 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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 Golden Age of Crap 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Arcane II by Nathan Shumate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Craig Pay (Goodreads Author), Michael Haynes (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 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
	The Last Christmas Gift: A Heartwarming Holiday Tale of the Living Dead 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Shadow Over Vinland: and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 4.75 avg rating — 4 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 Demon Cross (Avalon & Company, #1) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	Levels: Fantastic and Macabre Tales 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply 3.33 avg rating — 3 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

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The Jury Series (The Jury #1-4)

by Lee Goldberg (Goodreads Author)

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The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould

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The New Space Opera

by Gardner Dozois

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Nathan Shumate rated a book liked it The Funco File by Burt Cole	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
On the one hand, the four almost completely separate stories of the four main characters are masterfully told in four different voices. Even though the first time two characters and their narratives overlapped was two-thirds into the book, the separa ...more
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Nathan Shumate rated a book really liked it Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington	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
A very good all-around biography of Brigham Young.
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What Bowles doesn't understand, in her litany of all the ways that the world went absolutely insane in the last five years, is that her "this far and no further" brand of liberalism is a major cause of what she critically highlights. She describes he ...more
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Nathan Shumate rated a book really liked it The Walk by Lee Goldberg (Goodreads Author)	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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Quite a good little unknown novel. It's usually a rush and a letdown when a novel begins with people who don't know where they are or how they got there (or even really who they are), because most authors squander the potential of that opening. This ...more
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