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R.W.W. Greene is the author of "The Light Years" (Feb. 2020)," "Twenty-Five to Life" (Aug. 2021), "Mercury Rising" (May 2022), and "Earth Retrograde" (Oct. 2023), all from Angry Robot Books. Member of SFWA. ...more

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	The Light Years 3.75 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Mercury Rising (First Planets #1) 3.76 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Twenty-Five to Life 3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Earth Retrograde: Book II of the First Planets 4.02 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Miseria's Chorale by David Nell (Editor), Christopher Nadeau, Patrick Lacey (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 52 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
	2017 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide by Corie Weaver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maggie Allen, Marilag Angway (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2016 — 3 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
	Something Wicked Anthology, Vol Two by Joe Vaz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vianne Venter (Editor), Faith Bicknell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018 by Kit-Bacon Gressitt (Editor), Sara Marchant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maia Antoinette (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — 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
	Metaphorosis Magazine, Issue 55, July 2020 by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Tenebrae (Illustrator), Ashley R. Carlson (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 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
	Metaphorosis 2020: The Complete Stories (Complete Metaphorosis, #5) by B. Morris Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Felicity Drake, Michael Sherrin 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021 — 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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R.W.W. Greene answered Charles's question: I screwed up on my last question. I conflated "Twenty Five to Life" with "The Light Years". "25 to Life" only has a single POV. "Light Years" has two, heavily slanted to Hisako's better story. That's my bad. (Does anyone say that any more?) Will the Hadjj be out looking for the Chinese superior tech culture? Its a story needing a Fu Manchu-like character. Read "Imperial Twilight" by Stephen Platt ahead. I also had an idea and an outline for a sequel to that. It's the start of the revolution on Gaul and the kid Adem is riding with at the end of the book has been using the workshop to make weapons. So Adem must flee the planet with his Earth historian See Full Answer
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R.W.W. Greene liked Sarah Smith's review of Earth Retrograde: Book II of the First Planets: "Brooklyn Lamontagne-- Wait, wasn't he dead at the end of MERCURY RISING? Well, yes. But Brooklyn is back, scurrilous as ever, trying to solve the mystery of why the First, who drove humans off Earth, have suddenly...just disappeared. Dazzling worldbu" Read more of this review »
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Author Barrett projects the Victorian Age into the mind of his readers, luring them onto a dark, twisty path of hauntings and horror, murder and macabre mirth. Read it.
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"Hell Upside Down!!" When I was a toddler, the commercial for "The Poseidon Adventure" used that catchphrase, and I ran around the house in my diaper screaming it for hours. (Apparently. According to my mother.) Reading Hanks's new book caused much the ...more
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A look at the man behind Stephen King's throne:
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Sep 02, 2011 07:54AM

Do you only ever give four stars to all the books you've read? Come on Rob, I know you're a harsher critic than that. Also, I am now noticing how alike you and my boyfriend are, to the point that it's freaky!

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