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Jared Shurin

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Born

Kansas City

Website

http://www.raptorvelocity.com

Genre

Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery

Influences

Ann VanderMeer, China Miéville, Anne C. Perry, Stark Holborn, Mahv ...more

Member Since

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Jared Shurin has edited over two dozen anthologies, including The Elements of Dark Academia, The Djinn Falls in Love, The Lowest Heaven, The Outcast Hours, the Best of British Fantasy series, and The Big Book of Cyberpunk.

He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Shirley Jackson, Hugo, and British Fantasy Awards, amongst others.

He currently writes about strategy, books and pop culture at Raptor Velocity, publishes the flammable newspaper Kindling, and edits Shelfies with Lavie Tidhar. ...more

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	The Book of the Dead by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garen Ewing (Illustrator), Maurice Broaddus (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), William Gibson (Contributor), James Tiptree Jr. (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2023 — 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 Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. I by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aleš Kot (Contributor), Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Irregularity by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary Northfield (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Tiffani Angus (Goodreads Author) 3.45 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. II by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alaya Dawn Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Arthur Liu (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2024 — 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 Best of British Fantasy 2018 by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jenni Fagan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Malcolm Devlin (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	The Best of British Fantasy 2019 by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Helen McClory (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Gareth E. Rees (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	We Need to Talk by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kindred Agency (Editor), Lisa Wright (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Pandemonium Stocking Stuffer 2014 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	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 Extinction Event by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anne C. Perry (Contributor), S.L. Grey (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2016	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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Why dark academia?

I love editing anthologies because they’re a form of curation. I get to assemble an answer; pull together an informed opinion from the evidence available. I believe a good anthology is not only about the quality of the stories, but about the quality of the argument. It is a truism, but it should be more than the sum of its parts. And that sum should have something to say.

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“nothing really changes except the brand of the boot that you find on your face.”
― Jared Shurin, The Big Book of Cyberpunk

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“For the longest time we believed the world around us was deterministic enough to be understood; that it was just a matter of encoding enough data, and enough processing power, to be able to see the future. That if I do x, and the other person does y, and if I know all the things I need to know about the actors and their actions, I can say that z is the logical outcome…”
― Jared Shurin, The Big Book of Cyberpunk

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“Most people spend a good chunk of their lives at a job they hate, taking orders from people they can’t stand to buy stuff they don’t need.”
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