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An intermittent writer of science fiction, with occasional leanings towards fantasy. So far I have published one novel plus about a book's worth of short stories and poetry. I usually aim for self-contained works with impact--my idea of a trilogy is three related short stories.

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	Northern Stars by Glenn Grant (Editor), David G. Hartwell (Editor), John Park (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1994 — 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
	Cities In Space by Jerry Pournelle (Editor), John F. Carr (Editor), Michael Cassutt 3.60 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1991	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
	Wrestling with Gods by Liana Kerzner (Editor), Jerome Stueart (Editor), Tony Pi (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories by Matt Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brett Alexander Savory (Editor), Jon Martin Watts (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Janus 3.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012 — 7 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
	Far Frontiers 2: Summer 85 by Jerry Pournelle (Editor), Jim Baen (Editor), Eric L. Davin (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1985 — 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
	Tesseracts 3 by Candas Jane Dorsey (Editor), Gerry Truscott (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1990	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
	Stars as Seen from this Particular Angle of Night by Sandra Kasturi (Editor), John Rose (Introduction), Phyllis Gotlieb (Foreword) 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003	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
	Tesseracts 5 by Robert Runte (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Yves Meynard (Editor), John Park (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1996 — 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
	Tesseracts 4 by Lorna Toolis (Editor), Michael Skeet (Editor), Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992 — 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

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John Park rated a book liked it Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler (Goodreads Author)	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
Two and a half stars. An important and often overlooked element in a novel is an elusive quality that has been called an “air of authority”. It’s a matter of style and tone, a narrative stance that says the author knows what they are doing, they are t ...more
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John Park rated a book really liked it Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence by Sara Imari Walker	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
This is a book about some new ideas concerning the definition, boundaries and origins of life. The search for extraterrestrial life and the search for the origin of life on Earth both stumble over the meaning of the term, life. Walker argues persuasi ...more
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John Park rated a book liked it What Does a Martian Look Like? : The Science of Extraterrestrial Life by Jack Cohen	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 bit disappointing. Cohen and Stewart are professional scientists, respectively biologist and mathematician. They have some strong opinions about what they consider the traditional discussions of possible extraterrestrial life and in the early chapt ...more
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John Park rated a book liked it Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell	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
Three and a half stars. (Why not more? I had to think about it, but eventually decided that (a) not everything Orwell wrote about was of compelling interest to me and (b) compared to say the roughly contemporary musical journalism of G. B. Shaw, Orwe ...more
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