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Mike Jansen

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Born

in Netherlands

April 12

Website

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Twitter

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Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

Influences

Jack Vance,Michael Moorcock,Larry Niven,Robert Jordan,Glen Cook

Member Since

January 2012

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Mike has published flash fiction, short stories and longer work in various anthologies and magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium. Since 2012 he has published internationally and so far has over a hundred stories published in 12 languages.

Obviously he lives in the Netherlands, in Hilversum which is close to Amsterdam. He has won awards for best new author and best author in the King Kong Award in 1991 and 1992 respectively as well as an honorable mention for a submission to the Australian Altair Magazine launch competition in 1998. He won Fantastels and the Literary Prize of Baarn in 2012, Godijn SF/F Award in 2020 and the 'Mossy Statue' achievement award in 2021.

Since 2015 Mike also organizes the EdgeZero competition that publishes the b Mike has published flash fiction, short stories and longer work in various anthologies and magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium. Since 2012 he has published internationally and so far has over a hundred stories published in 12 languages.

Obviously he lives in the Netherlands, in Hilversum which is close to Amsterdam. He has won awards for best new author and best author in the King Kong Award in 1991 and 1992 respectively as well as an honorable mention for a submission to the Australian Altair Magazine launch competition in 1998. He won Fantastels and the Literary Prize of Baarn in 2012, Godijn SF/F Award in 2020 and the 'Mossy Statue' achievement award in 2021.

Since 2015 Mike also organizes the EdgeZero competition that publishes the best stories that were published or participated in contests in the previous year, as an attempt to get more stories into the public view.

His first English story collection is "Ophelia in My Arms"; the novel "The Failing God" appeared late 2013.

http://www.meznir.info for more information.

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Mike heeft Flash Fiction, korte verhalen en langer werk gepubliceerd in verschillende verhalenbundels en bladen in Nederland. Daaronder de magazines Cerberus, Wonderwaan, Ator Mondis en de Babel-SF en Verschijnsel verzamelbundels zoals Ragnarok en Zwarte Zielen. Vanaf 1991 is Mike aan het schrijven geweest aan verschillende korte verhalen en is hij begonnen aan zeven romans, waarvan de eerste twee inmiddels af zijn ("De Falende God" en "In Schaduwen van Weleer".) Daarnaast heeft hij in verschillende King Kong Award en Millennium Prijs Jury's gezeten en heeft hij samen met Roelof Goudriaan een jaar of tien aan Babel Publications gewerkt.

In 1991 won hij de Rob Vooren prijs voor beste nieuwe auteur en in 1992 de King Kong Award voor beste korte verhaal, samen met Paul Harland. In 2012 won Mike zowel de jury- als de publieksprijs in de literatuurprijs van het Baarns Cultureel Festival en de Thor Verhalenwedstrijd van het SaBi Verhalenforum. In 2013 kwam daar een eerste plek in de Fantastels 2012 verhalenwedstrijd bij.

Na een schrijfhiaat van zo’n tien jaar schreef Mike eind 2011 zijn debuutroman, De Falende God, een breed opgezette dark fantasy roman, eerste deel van een pentalogie die ergens in 2013 afgerond moet zijn. Het tweede deel ‘In Schaduwen van Weleer’ verscheen in de loop van 2012 bij Verschijnsel. Deel drie, 'Het Afwezige Licht', kwam in 2018 uit.
Meer recent schrijft hij ook veel in het Engels en publiceert op de Engelse markt voor bladen en verzamelbundels, mede omdat daar in Nederland niet genoeg ruimte voor is.
Een bezigheid die hij ook weer heeft opgepakt is het hoofdredacteursschap voor uitgeverij Verschijnsel (de voortzetting van Babel Publications), waar zijn voornaamste aandachtsgebied de e-publicatie-markt is. ...more

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Another step forward

On December 1st I received an early Christmas present. Samovar (Strange Horizons) reached out to me to inform me that they wanted to publish my story "Fluxless" on their website, do an interview, plus arrange a podcast of the story in Dutch and English.

Here's the link by the way, see for yourself: http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/20...

A step forward? Why, yes, definitely. Like many authors I hav Read more of this blog post »

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Mike Jansen’s books

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	De Falende God (Kroniek van Cranborn, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	In Schaduwen van Weleer (Kroniek van Cranborn, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Edgezero: de beste Nederlandse genreverhalen van 2016 by Mike Jansen (Goodreads Author), Tais Teng (Goodreads Author), Jaap Boekestein 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — 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
	De Laatste Draak 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1991 — 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
	EdgeZero: de beste Nederlandse genreverhalen uit 2017 by Mike Jansen (Goodreads Author), Johan Klein Haneveld (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Jaap Boekestein 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — 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
	EdgeZero: de beste Nederlandse genreverhalen van 2015 by Mike Jansen (Goodreads Author), Peter Kaptein, Rik Raven (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 14 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
	Poe in de polder by Mike Jansen (Goodreads Author), Tais Teng (Goodreads Author), Roderick Leeuwenhart (Goodreads Author) 4.25 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
	Lovecraft in de polder by Mike Jansen (Goodreads Author), Tais Teng (Goodreads Author), Laura Scheepers (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 13 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
	Ophelia in My Arms by Mike Jansen (Goodreads Author), James Ward Kirk (Editor), Michael Blommaert (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Dubbelgangster 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996 — 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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EdgeZero bundels (9 books)
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Mike’s Quotes

“Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”
― Glen Cook, Shadow Games

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“. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.”
― Glen Cook

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“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”
― Glen Cook, Dreams of Steel

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“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
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message 4: by A.R.

Aug 29, 2018 12:39AM

Thanks for the "friendship," Mike.

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message 3: by Carole

Sep 25, 2014 02:44PM

hi Mike
thanks for the add. :)

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message 2: by Mike

Dec 06, 2013 05:40AM

M.C. wrote: "Hi, thank you for becoming my friend on Goodreads. I am organizing a giveaway. On December 8, I will send out a copy of my epic fantasy novel titled Creatures of Darkness and Light - titans, humans..."

As I live in the Netherlands, do you you also ship there? Otherwise not much use participating, although I do really appreciate the invitation ;)

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message 1: by Cristina

Dec 04, 2013 03:15AM

Hi, thank you for becoming my friend on Goodreads. I am organizing a giveaway. On December 8, I will send out a copy of my epic fantasy novel titled Creatures of Darkness and Light - titans, humans, and the beasts and my paranormal fantasy novel titled 300 Years of Sin (btw, there are no sparkly vampires here, but there's quite the body count), each e-book will go to a different person. Those who want to participate have to like and leave a comment (on my FB wall) with the name of the e-book they want. If you would like to participate, you can check out my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/MariaCristin... or my Goodreads page blog.

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