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Jonathan C. Gillespie

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers, Horror

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Jonathan C. Gillespie has been writing genre fiction for almost two decades, with a particular interest in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His short fiction has been published in a variety of outlets on three continents, including “The Drabblecast”, “Spinetingler Magazine”, and “Murky Depths”, and has been nominated for a number of awards, including the Parsecs.

Having shifted his focus to longer works in recent years, he has authored the Beacon Saga serial, and the Tyrant Strategy novel series.

He lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and daughters. ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 320 ratings · 56 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beacon: Part I 3.68 avg rating — 80 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
	Beacon: Part II 3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 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 Outlaw Contractions 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014	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 Complete Beacon Saga 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	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
	Beacon: Part III 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 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 Tyrant Strategy: Revenant Man 4.33 avg rating — 6 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
	Revenant Man 3.71 avg rating — 7 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
	Beacon: Part IV 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 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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	Beacon - Part VII it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 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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Sometimes history comes calling, and sometimes it arrives with a truck full of body-bags when it does. As a history buff, recent events have filled me with a kind of morbid curiosity–at our shores, it seems, is a generational crisis one typically only reads about in the past tense. But what’s most alarming about the […]

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Series by Jonathan C. Gillespie

Beacon Saga (8 books)
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Jonathan C. Gillespie (Goodreads Author)

3.86 avg rating — 133 ratings

The Tyrant Strategy (3 books)
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings

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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

by Svetlana Alexievich

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Poems of William Blake

by William Blake

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

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“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by: Walt Whitman