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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

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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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Average rating: 4.05 · 33,514 ratings · 2,766 reviews · 193 distinct works • Similar authors

	Salvage Trouble (Black Ocean #1) 3.79 avg rating — 1,865 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 — 1,522 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 — 990 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 3.87 avg rating — 1,027 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 — 952 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) 3.87 avg rating — 896 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) 3.93 avg rating — 803 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 — 721 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 — 672 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 — 667 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

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Solar Storm

The Ship is Falling Apart. Can You Escape? It’s a race against time with an hourglass full of broken parts.

Evacuating a starship is a common enough trope in sci-fi that it really needs no additional explanation as a game premise.

In Solar Storm, you and your fellow crewmates (I actually typed that as “cremates” on my first try, which is probably what happens when you lose) attempt to divert enough

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Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire (22 books)
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Twinborn Trilogy (3 books)
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Robot Geneticists (6 books)
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Astral Prime (12 books)
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“It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.”
― J.S. Morin, Mad Tinker's Daughter

tags: knowledge, sci-fi, steampunk

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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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