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Shane Giroux

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Born

Saskatoon, Canada

Website

http://buriedideas.tumblr.com

Twitter

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Genre

Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense

Member Since

June 2011

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Shane Giroux is a technology executive and reading junkie who also loves sports. He has authored a successful blog focused on the Colorado Avalanche and has published a book of poetry. He has recently expanded on that body of work with his first short stories - Buried in Love, and The Wishing Well - and hopes to keep things rolling in 2013.

Current favorite genre - Science Fiction
Current favorite opening line - "All this happened, more or less." (Slaughterhouse Five)
Current favorite character - Atomic Robo
Current favorite author - Grant Morrison
Story that changed my life the most - The Invisibles
Last country visited - Australia

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Shane Giroux's Blog

"I never thought I would miss noise so much. I spent years meditating to quiet the world around me...."

“I never thought I would miss noise so much. I spent years meditating to quiet the world around me. Now that there’s nothing to shut out, I want to let some noise back in. It’s been about ten thousand years since my last contact with anyone. It doesn’t seem like much time at all. I never thought I would be lonely out among the stars. I never suspected the stars would die. I never suspected I would Read more of this blog post »

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	Buried In Love it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	The Wishing Well it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	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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The Broken Sword

by Poul Anderson

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Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier

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This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)

by Tahereh Mafi

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“tape showing the “eight silent ways.” Some of the actors must have been brain-wipes, since they were actually killed.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

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