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Gene Rowe

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in Bedford, The United Kingdom

Website

https://ministryoflies.co.uk

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Science Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Fantasy

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Gene Rowe is an academic/ consultant/ writer. Born in Bedford, England (1966: the Glorious Year!), he moved around a lot as a child thanks to his father's job in the United States Air Force (his father is a Mainer). He read psychology at Bristol University and subsequently completed a PhD at the Bristol Business School. After several academic postings, he set up his own consultancy (Gene Rowe Evaluations) in 2010. All was rosy until COVID, which killed his business. He now writes on a near-full-time basis. His first solo novel - The Greater Game (2022; White Cat Publications) - is a science fiction adventure with inadvertent Brexit allegories (though an even-handed take). He has recently remastered this, with the second edition for sale thr ...more

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Average rating: 4.41 · 54 ratings · 38 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Price of Freedom: Part I: Ghuraj to Arkon 4.41 avg rating — 17 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 Greater Game 4.50 avg rating — 16 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
	Of Yellow Shirts and Little Green Men (The Norwich Chronicles Book 1) 4.88 avg rating — 8 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
	Fission #4: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association by Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gene Rowe (Goodreads Author) (editor), Robert Bagnall (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 6 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
	Atlantis Afire 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	Fission #5: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association by Gene Rowe (Goodreads Author), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 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
	Fission #2 Volume 2: Stories from the British Science Fiction Association by Gene Rowe (Goodreads Author), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Rob Nisbet it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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 Price of Freedom: Part 2: Velasia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Of Spilt Ale and Alien Revenge (The Norwich Chronicles #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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 Quest for the Holy Ale by Gene Rowe (Goodreads Author), Andrew Schofield 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 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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Gene Rowe and 10 other people liked Bryan's review of Suldrun's Garden (Lyonesse, #1): "Does any other author write amazing and strange fantasy so eloquently as Jack Vance? The question is nuncupatory."
Sep 05, 2026 06:37AM · see review
Gene Rowe and 12 other people liked Jaro's review of Suldrun's Garden (Lyonesse, #1): "Perfection..."
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Gene Rowe and 19 other people liked Ian Farragher's review of Suldrun's Garden (Lyonesse, #1): "Jack Vance is the best writer you've never heard of. You can get lost in his tales whilst still believing that you are looking into the lives of real people. They may be people 10,000 or 100,000 years in the future; or further back, in some Ur-Common " Read more of this review »
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Gene Rowe rated a book it was amazing Suldrun's Garden (Lyonesse, #1) by Jack Vance	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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Gene Rowe rated a book really liked it Belly of Salt: A Sci-Fi Space Opera of Military Mechs, Survival, and Rebellion by T.S. Chalk (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
This sci-fi novella tell the story of two characters on another world, whose lives – I assume - inter-twine. One is a poor young man (Iskander), looking for work as a ‘lifter’, the other a young woman (Eva) signed up for a special military unit, with ...more
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Gene Rowe is now following Lyssa Medana Author of The Forgotten Village
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Gene Rowe rated a book really liked it When Pigs Fly: My 100-Word Ideas for a Year by Ray Gregory	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
I have read another of Ray Gregory’s books – a set of short stories – and I was impressed. He can clearly write fiction, at least, of the short variety. This book, however, is something different. It’s not fiction (entirely, though there is fiction i ...more
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Gene Rowe rated a book it was amazing The Epilogue Event by S.G. Bell	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 Epilogue Event is the first in a series of books, set in the UK, about an AI ‘plague’ that is mysteriously taking control of people. Our hero, Peter Finch, turns out to have special powers that enable him to counter the plague’s effects, and he e ...more
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Gene Rowe rated a book really liked it Fire & Stones (The Tesla Curse Book 1): A Time-Travel Adventure by M. Z. Joseph	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
‘Fire and Stones’ is a time travel adventure, following a man who goes to a park for a meeting, only to find the meeting point eerily empty, and suddenly, he’s in the presence of pre-historic creatures. There is a fairly lengthy opening act, involvin ...more
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