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Stephen Brooke
Goodreads Author
Born
in Columbus, Ohio, The United States
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Influences
Rudyard Kipling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Member Since
November 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/stephenbrooke
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Pieces of the Moon
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2003
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The Contrary Fairy
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2012
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The Art of K. Page Brooke
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2013
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Shaper (Cully Beach, #1)
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2015
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2 editions
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A Poet's Day
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The Moon and I
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Ticking
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The Plain of Silver
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Counting Words
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The Moon and the Sea
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Stories
I have set up an archive of my short stories, both those published at some point and those that haven't been seen elsewhere. This is at: https://storiesofstephenbrooke.blogsp...
Some appeared in the poetry and vignette collection 'Retellings' and some in my short story collection 'Lands Far Away,' both available from Arachis Press (arachispress.com) in print or as free ebooks. Read more of this blog post »
Some appeared in the poetry and vignette collection 'Retellings' and some in my short story collection 'Lands Far Away,' both available from Arachis Press (arachispress.com) in print or as free ebooks. Read more of this blog post »
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Jack McFee continues to grow as a character. That's not easy to pull off after four books. True, he is the same person but maturing and, now, getting married. The plot is a tad thin, thanks to the largely invisible antagonists. That is true of the las ...more |
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| O.D. Pike's third Jack Mack science fiction novel continues the story of young Jack McFee in much the same vein as its predecessors. Jack remains as capable and cocky outwardly as ever, and just as conflicted and doubtful internally. He is settling i ...more | |
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| A theme? Sort of; the moon and the sea do show up in several pieces in my latest collection of poems, both new and old. I'm pleased with the results; hope you like it too. ...more | |
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| Yes, I have released yet another poetry collection. The conceit this time is that poems deal with the use of words. As a result, some pieces are fairly old ones I held back until the proper time. It also means 'Counting Words' is not quite as long as ...more | |
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| One could make an argument that “The Pioneers” was the first great American novel. It is certainly the first important one. Before Hawthorne, before Melville, Cooper gives us the American voice and sensibility (though with the obvious stylistic influ ...more | |
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| One sometime finds Lord Dunsany’s novel ‘The Curse of the Wise Woman’ listed among his fantasy works. This is not too surprising, considering the book’s title and the fact that he is best known for his fantasy stories (Dunsany is arguably the most im ...more | |
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| Although ‘science-fantasy’ is not a term of which I am particularly fond, it does describe ‘Incomplete’ as well as any other. It could also be considered a superhero story of sorts; the ‘Nine’ are very much in the same vein as the X-Men, the Justice ...more | |
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