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Sean Butler

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Born

Dublin, Ireland

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https://seanbutlerbooks.com/

Genre

Science Fiction, Fiction

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Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily St John Mandel, ...more

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Sean Butler was born in Ireland in 1983 and currently lives in Ballincollig, Cork, with his wife Sarah and dog Molly. In a previous life, he was a lecturer specialising in international law and human rights, but gave it all up to chase the stories from his head.

Sean writes speculative fiction through a literary lens, focusing on the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary worlds.

Eveningstar, his debut novel, is an exploration of power, compromise and enduring humanity, set in a world colonised and reshaped by Alien rulers.

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Eveningstar (The Earthling Condition Book 1)

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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)

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