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Lee Burton

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in Corner Brook, NL, Canada

December 28, 1977

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https://leeburton.ca/

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Fantasy, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction

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Lee Burton is a Percy Janes First Novel Award winner, and a finalist in The Writers of the Future contest. In 2023, he'll be publishing the first of his Speaker Series stories.

He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, where for the past ten years he has worked as an author and freelance editor. Though his stories are diverse, they all revel in the music of words and celebrate imagination.

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The Fastidious Author’s Paradox

There's a famous ancient paradox by a guy who just loved to spit these things out, Zeno, called Zeno’s Dichotomy. It sometimes comes to mind when I'm editing my own books, and I wanted to suggest another addition to it, an addendum which I want to call: The Fastidious Author’s Paradox.

Zeno describes his paradox like a runner trying to, say, catch a bus. An ancient bus. The runner has to travel hal

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Average rating: 3.63 · 396 ratings · 65 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Speaker (The Speaker Timeline, #1) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings	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 Lion (Speaker Origins Book 1) 4.42 avg rating — 12 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
	Ella 3.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	This Land 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013	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 Third People 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings	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
	Do Unto Others 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	A String of Momentary Silences 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	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
	Daisies of Mars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	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
	Strayed (Speaker Origins Book 2) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Disappearing Act 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	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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I was looking more for a layman's understanding of Mesopotamia, and this is not quite that. However, nor is it a super-technical, jargony archaeological study either, so it's accessible to a wider audience. It's well written and organized, and I'd re ...more
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A wonderful take on the classic vampire story. The story itself could hang together a little better, I thought, but like most of King's work, it was immensely entertaining and creepy throughout. ...more
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