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Tony Peak

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Born

in Wytheville, The United States

February 16, 1978

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http://www.tonypeak.net

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

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Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert

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Tony is represented by Ethan Ellenberg of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. His interests include progressive thinking, transhumanism, and planetary exploration. He resides in rural southwest Virginia with a wonderful view of New River. Find out more at www.tonypeak.net ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,167 ratings · 122 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	Death's Ecliptic (Cygni Corps Book 1) 4.09 avg rating — 205 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
	Inherit the Stars 3.12 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2015 — 11 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
	Eden Descending: An Alien Planet Survival Series 4.08 avg rating — 86 ratings — 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
	Parallax (Redshift Runners #1) 4.13 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Eden: The Complete Series: An Alien Planet Survival Boxed Set (Eden Box Sets Book 1) 4.40 avg rating — 65 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
	Task Force Altair (Cygni Corps Book 2) 4.52 avg rating — 60 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
	Imposter's Gambit: A Space Opera Adventure (Delta Desperadoes Book 1) 4.21 avg rating — 58 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
	Operation Oblivion (Cygni Corps Book 3) 4.58 avg rating — 53 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
	Eden's Tears 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings — 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
	Signal 3.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — 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

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Tony Peak liked Danny Moody's review of The Adventurer's Glyph: A LitRPG Adventure (Twilight Company Book 1): "Interesting premise. I like when the IRL skills help the game world class. We get a lot of that from the Druid class in this book. The group is a rag tag group of a variety of races and classes. The story was entertaining but overall a pretty typical" Read more of this review »
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Tony Peak and 1 other person liked Mim Crenshaw's review of The Adventurer's Glyph: A LitRPG Adventure (Twilight Company Book 1): "Okay Read It was an enjoyable well written book with characters that was well thought out and funny. The fight scenes were good and the system and leveling was imaginative and different than what I'm used to reading. "
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“After eating a protein slab, she donned an envirosuit, then girded on her kinetic pistol with a ten-round magazine.”
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“Were you manipulated into asking so many questions?”
― Tony Peak, Eden: The Complete Series: An Alien Planet Survival Boxed Set

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“The more she learned, the more she realized just how much she didn’t know.”
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“Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.”
― Joseph Eastwood

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“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
― Octavia E. Butler

tags: hope, sense-of-wonder, space-travel

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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Blood of the Mantis

tags: betterment, machines, people, progress, stenwold-maker

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