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J.S. Morin

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in Manchester, NH, The United States

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http://www.jsmorin.com/

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Fantasy, Science Fiction

Influences

Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, J.R.R. Tolkien ...more

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January 2013

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I am a creator of worlds and a destroyer of words. As a fantasy writer, my works range from traditional epics to futuristic fantasy with starships. I have worked as an unpaid Little League pitcher, a cashier, a student library aide, a factory grunt, a cubicle drone, and an engineer--there is some overlap in the last two.

Through it all, though, I was always a storyteller. Eventually I started writing books based on the stray stories in my head, and people kept telling me to write more of them. Now, that's all I do for a living.

I enjoy strategy, worldbuilding, and the fantasy author's privilege to make up words. I am a gamer, a joker, and a thinker of sideways thoughts. But I don't dance, can't sing, and my best artistic efforts fall short of ...more

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	Salvage Trouble (Black Ocean #1) 3.79 avg rating — 1,825 ratings — published 2014 — 12 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
	Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions (Black Ocean, #1-16.5) by J.S. Morin (Goodreads Author), Mikael Naramore (Narrator) 4.32 avg rating — 1,505 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
	Extinction Reversed (Robot Geneticists #1) 4.07 avg rating — 987 ratings — published 2017 — 8 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
	A Smuggler's Conscience: Mission 2 3.88 avg rating — 1,006 ratings — published 2014 — 9 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
	Firehurler (Twinborn Trilogy, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 947 ratings — published 2013 — 12 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
	Poets and Piracy (Black Ocean #3) by J.S. Morin (Goodreads Author), Mikael Naramore (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 880 ratings — published 2015 — 9 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
	To Err is Azrin (Black Ocean #4) 3.94 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Alien Racer (Black Ocean #5) 4.03 avg rating — 705 ratings — published 2015 — 9 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
	Mission Pack 1: Missions 1-4 (Black Ocean #1-4, #4.5) 4.16 avg rating — 664 ratings — 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
	Siege of Mortania (Black Ocean #7) 4.12 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 2015	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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Future tech sample platter (CES 2026)

Some of the future is on sale, but it’s expensive

Every year, the future gets a little bit closer. Some of it arrives. A few bits and pieces fade from new and exciting to standard fare. But one yearly tradition in January has us looking just over the horizon at upcoming products that will make tomorrow’s present feel like the future: the Consumer Electronics Show, or simply CES.

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Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire (22 books)
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“It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.”
― J.S. Morin, Mad Tinker's Daughter

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“Decisions can be hard things to make," Tiiba said. "The materials from which you build them can make them good or poor, no matter the skill that goes into crafting them.”
― J.S. Morin, Sourcethief

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“Mordecai The Brown will not meet his end cowering behind the paltry protections of science. If this is to be our end, let there be a reckoning in blood and fire. I’m going to show these fuckers something very, very old.”
― J.S. Morin, Salvage Trouble

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