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Lance Schonberg

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Born

in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Website

http://lanceschonberg.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

Influences

Guy Gavriel Kay, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert A. Heinlein, Ann McCaffrey, ...more

Member Since

October 2011

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During the summer of 2007, in the middle of lecturing one of his children on the importance of following dreams, Lance began to wonder why he’d stopped following his. Gathering up a few shreds of unfinished stories, he began writing (nearly) every day. On Christmas Day that year, after the rest of his family had gone to bed, he began his first novel. Dragon Summer took exactly five months to complete and came in at 108,104 words. Fortunately, no one will ever be allowed to read it.

He’s written several novels, and many shorter works in the years since, some of which have even seen publication. Lance’s writing habits are eclectic, although most of his stories do fall into the broad buckets of Science Fiction or Fantasy. Mostly, he’s gotten ov ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 254 ratings · 44 reviews · 34 distinct works

	Thorvald's Wyrd 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
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	Hero's Life (Heroes Inc, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2020	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
	Fallen Heroes (Heroes Inc, #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2021	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
	Graceland: Inspired by the Music of Paul Simon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2019 — 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 Undead: More Than Just Brains And Hauntings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2020	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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Poetic Form Alphabet

I haven’t contemplated this for a while, but I thought it would be a fun challenge for myself to run the alphabet this year, each letter represented by a poetic form attempted.

I’ve noted before, although not for a while I think, that when it comes to poetry I’m more or less a formalist. For my own personal reading (and writing) pleasure, there needs to be structure for it to be poetry. No free ver

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Lance Schonberg marked as dnf Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3) by Ursula K. Le Guin	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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Lance Schonberg marked as dnf Annie Bot by Sierra Greer (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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Lance’s Quotes

“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

tags: marcus-cole

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“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”
― John Bingham

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“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humor, slang

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“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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