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Alan Bradley is the author of the urban fantasy THE SIXTH BOROUGH. He's a novelist and journalist with over twenty years of experience covering technology, culture, and the intersection of people and ideas. He’s written for Rolling Stone, Variety, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and a number of other outlets. THE SIXTH BOROUGH is his debut novel.

Alan lives in rural North Carolina with a very small lion.

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Alan Bradley and 19 other people liked britt_brooke's review of The Compound: "Too much telling, not enough showing. Grossly underdeveloped characters. No backstory. No explanation for time, place, or why the show exists. Nothing to make me care what happened. Maybe if I watched reality dating shows, the satire would’ve landed?" Read more of this review »
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“When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

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“Do you want to live, Sander?”
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“Magic is hard on our world. Pulling it in is really violent and damaging. The more we use it, the more we stretch out the membrane between this world and the one we draw it in from. And the other side…' She looked at Maldonado and he nodded. 'Well, it’s toxic.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough