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Marissa Van Uden

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December 25

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Marissa van Uden is an editor and writer from Aotearoa-New Zealand who now lives in rural Vermont, in a little cabin in the woods. She is the editor of The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird (Dark Matter Ink, 2024) and the Apex Strange Microfiction anthologies. She is also the EiC of the imprint Violet Lichen Books and an associate editor and interviewer for Apex Magazine.
Her fiction has appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Zero Dark Thirty, Los Suelos, and Vastarien Literary Journal. She loves animals, wild things, and weird horror.

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	The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden (Goodreads Author), Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 4,592 ratings — published 2013 — 15 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
	Brain Surfing: The Top Marketing Strategy Minds in the World by Heather Lefevre, Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Toma Bedolla (Foreword) 4.16 avg rating — 237 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
	Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lavie Tidhar 3.22 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2022	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
	In the Company of the Dead (The Sundered Oath, #1) by Ciara Ballintyne (Goodreads Author), Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 64 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
	Shadow Swarm by D. Robert Pease (Goodreads Author), Lane Diamond (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.39 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird by Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mars Abian (Contributor), Alex Keikiakapueo Brewster (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction by Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author), E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Strange Libations by Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marie Vibbert (Goodreads Author), Nicholas G. Marconi 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2023	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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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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