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Ed Gibney

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in Reading, PA, The United States

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Philosophy, Fiction

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Carl Sagan, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Dawkins, Henry David Thoreau, ...more

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Ed Gibney loves a good life and has traveled the world looking for the best ones. He grew up with Amish neighbors in rural Pennsylvania, worked on construction sites in the deserts of the American West, was broadened by the cosmopolitan diversity of San Francisco, spent a summer consulting for an Inuit community in Alaska, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, made government more efficient at the headquarters of the FBI and the Secret Service, wrote novels and philosophy by the seaside in the north of England, and currently resides in Vienna, Austria, the world’s most livable city. Almost all of this was with his wife of nearly 25 years who has been a police officer, a Senate volunteer, a professor of criminology, and a head of res ...more

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What’s next for you? Are you going to write more about politics?

Ed Gibney Not as the main focus, but politics will come up in future novels since it is so involved in the big decisions we have to make as a species and those …moreNot as the main focus, but politics will come up in future novels since it is so involved in the big decisions we have to make as a species and those are the questions I’m interested in talking about. Draining the Swamp was set entirely in the realm of government so I could talk in detail about political philosophy, but my next novel deals with the science fiction of a quest for immortality, which gives me a great way to talk about ethics and how to live an examined life. There is a character in that novel who’s a politician, since any life-extension technologies being considered would have such a huge impact on our political and economic spheres that it’s likely to become heavily regulated if it gets any closer to reality, but he’s just a minor character used to discuss those minor elements within the larger theme. This is the novel I’ve had in my head for over a decade that made me really need to try my hand as a writer so I’m super excited to get it down on paper and turned into a finished product as soon as I can. I hope you’ll check it out!(less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ed Gibney I’m still new enough to this that I haven’t faced the crippling writer’s block that seems to strike people who have written for a few years or more an…moreI’m still new enough to this that I haven’t faced the crippling writer’s block that seems to strike people who have written for a few years or more and find they have nothing left to say. I’m still plenty inspired to write and I have a file with lots of novel and short story ideas in it that I can hardly wait to get to someday. I’m still enough of a novice at this writing life though that I sometimes struggle to have energy or focus to fill a blank page, which is a different sort of writer’s block. That one I’ve dealt with by learning to manage and control the times that my emotions are most in tune for this kind of creative work, and then figuring out a daily schedule that works best for me. I definitely need to keep eating, sleeping, exercising, and socializing well to keep my moods stable and productive—no lonely alcoholism for me! As for getting going on putting words down, I find that if I try to write first drafts in whole, complete, grammatically correct sentences, my mind wanders off to think about all the tiny decisions I have to make about the scenes, and I struggle to get anything down at all. Instead, I find I’m much more in control when I spend an hour or two in the morning jotting down bullet points and key phrases for the section I’m working on, which I can easily juggle and move around as needed. Then, I can go back in the afternoon to flesh that out into finished text without having to worry about exactly where I’m going. These bullet points are at a much finer level of detail than the big outline I do for a piece of work before I start writing anything. That may sound tedious to some people, but it’s just the way my mind works best and I didn’t know that when I first started writing.(less)

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Average rating: 4.13 · 24 ratings · 6 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Draining the Swamp 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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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	Evolutionary Philosophy 3.67 avg rating — 3 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
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Review of “Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari (5/5)

Finally, I’ve reached the end of my detailed review for this 466-page book. As a reminder, Sapiens is divided into four parts, plus a brief afterward:

Part One: The Cognitive Revolution
Part Two: The Agricultural Revolution
Part Three: The Unification of Humankind
Part Four: The Scientific Revolution
Afterword: The Animal that Became a God

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