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Jason Kristopher

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Jason Kristopher is the award-winning author terrifying readers with zombies in The Dying of the Light , thrilling them with 1940s noir in Loco Moco , and harrowing them with boy-meets-gryphon-meets-robot adventure in When Iron Wakes . With the love of his life and the dog that rescued him by his side, he plots his next traumatizing stories from Florida beaches.

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Jason Kristopher I'm currently finishing up my third and final novel in my popular zombie apocalypse series, "The Dying of the Light: Beginning." On the horizon, I've …moreI'm currently finishing up my third and final novel in my popular zombie apocalypse series, "The Dying of the Light: Beginning." On the horizon, I've got a metahuman detective novel, a dragons & wizards fantasy, a mid-grade YA book about Teddy Bears, and a sci-fi book or twelve. Plus, I've always got my massive epic fantasy series in the back of my mind...(less)
Jason Kristopher For me, the best thing is that I get all the stories out of my head and onto the page. The idea being, naturally, to have more space in my head. The r…moreFor me, the best thing is that I get all the stories out of my head and onto the page. The idea being, naturally, to have more space in my head. The result being, of course, that more ideas fill it.

I like making readers laugh or cry or get tense or what have you - basically, be *involved* in the stories that I tell. That's pretty awesome, in my book.(less)
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End (The Dying of the Light...

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Whatever Happened to Thomas...

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The Coldest Winter

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Interesting premise and the actual writing is generally good, but it veers so far into the "classic" SF sexist tropes that it's only through dint of determination that I bothered to finish it.

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