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Ted Mahsun

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in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

April 12

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Ted Mahsun is an award-winning science fiction author who writes comfortably in both Malay and English. In 2017, he was awarded both the 3rd and Consolation prizes in the prestigious biannual Malaysian science fiction novel-writing competition, Sayembara Novel Fiksyen Sains & Teknologi UTM-Utusan. His book reviews have been published in The Star, and his fiction included in Australia's Griffith Review as well as in various Malaysian anthologies. He was co-editor of the 2016 and 2017 editions of Little Basket, a literary journal of new writing, and he also runs a science fiction resource website for Malay language writers at penasaifai.com.
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Average rating: 3.63 · 610 ratings · 155 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Cyberpunk: Malaysia by Zen Cho (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Angeline Woon (Goodreads Author), Anna Tan (Goodreads Author) 3.39 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Hungry In Ipoh by Hadi M. Nor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terence Toh (Goodreads Author), Cassandra Khaw (Goodreads Author) 3.66 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2015	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
	Little Basket 2017: New Malaysian Writing by Catalina Rembuyan (Editor), Tshiung Han See (Editor), Lee Ee Leen (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2017	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
	Little Basket 2016: New Malaysian Writing by Catalina Rembuyan (Editor), Lee Ee Leen (Editor), Ted Mahsun (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.45 avg rating — 78 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
	Imagikata by Bahruddin Bekri (Goodreads Author), Lokman Hakim (Goodreads Author), Ikmal Ahmad 3.59 avg rating — 51 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
	Little Basket 2018: New Malaysian Writing by Ted Mahsun (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lee Ee Leen (Editor), Catalina Rembuyan (Contributor) 3.56 avg rating — 39 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
	Dunia Hanyalah Pentas 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2017	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
	Zombies Ate My Muslim really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 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
	The Dangers of Growing Air-cooled Volkswagens in Your Backyard 4.67 avg rating — 6 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
	The Secret Operation in the Matriarch's Kitchen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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

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Darth Plagueis

by James Luceno

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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

by Donald J. Robertson (Goodreads Author)

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The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

by Ichiro Kishimi

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“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

tags: death, life, music

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“now he realized… now he knew why the Empire had survived because of the game; Azad itself simply produced an insatiable desire for more victories, more power, more territory, more dominance…”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

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“Every writer must bring three major factors to each story that he writes. They are ideas, artistry and craftsmanship.”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells

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“Science fiction stories are those in which some aspect of future science or high technology is so integral to the story that, if you take away the science or technology, the story collapses.”
― Ben Bova, The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells

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