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Johne Cook

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Johne Cook is a technical writer by day and creative writer and editor at night. His interests include progressive rock, film noir, space opera, and racquetball. Johne is older than he looks but acts younger than he is. His short fiction has appeared in Deep Magic, The Sword Review, Wayfarer’s Journal, and Digital Dragon magazines. In 2006, with L. S. King and Paul Christian Glenn, Johne founded
Ray Gun Revival magazine (http://www.raygunrevival.com), devoted to space opera and golden age sci-fi. They refer to themselves collectively as the Overlords, and are often vaporizing someone’s puny planet for various arbitrary infractions. ...more

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	Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera For a New Age by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Resnick (Contributor), Keanan Brand (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anna Paradox (Goodreads Author), Gene Mederos 4.19 avg rating — 21 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
	The Bent Constable: A Short Story of the Blue Golem 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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“He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.”
― Raymond Chandler, Pearls are a Nuisance

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