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Michael Ling

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Born

in Toronto, Canada

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https://linktr.ee/michaellingbooks

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Fantasy, Science Fiction

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January 2014

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https://www.goodreads.com/dudemike

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Hey everyone!

Royal Road: Going forward, I’ll be releasing my works in progress for FREE on Royal Road, a webnovel site. I’m doing this to increase exposure and allow feedback early on, and so far, it’s been very helpful. I am serializing two books there already: Black Fire and The Navigator Saga. Check them out!

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Average rating: 4.57 · 14 ratings · 9 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Inciter Strand (The Unwritten Age, #1) 4.71 avg rating — 7 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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What a perfect storm of short fiction. Perhaps the best collection I've ever read. The prose is dense, and the stories hardly drag. Lots of fresh takes here. What a joy. ...more
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It begins mundanely. A steady pace. A simple premise. But the strangeness compounds. The worldbuilding is drip-fed through offhand remarks, through the way the boys talk about everyone else, about the past and their pasts. Gradually, you begin to und ...more
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4.5/5: Strong start but lags at the midpoint. Some characters deserved better send-offs. King’s prose carries, as always, though.
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