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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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Average rating: 3.78 · 382 ratings · 109 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden (Goodreads Author), Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 4,489 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 — 232 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) 3.40 avg rating — 40 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) 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Apex Magazine #135 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Isabel J. Kim 4.19 avg rating — 16 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
	Apex Magazine Issue 126 by Allison Mills (Editor), Pamela Rentz (Goodreads Author), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Goodreads Author) 4.64 avg rating — 14 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
	Strange Libations by Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marie Vibbert (Goodreads Author), Nicholas G. Marconi 4.63 avg rating — 8 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
	ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction by Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author), E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 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

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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The Truth and Other Stories

by Stanisław Lem

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Marissa Uden and 2 other people liked David Agranoff's review of ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction: "I did not realize that there is enough Sci-fi and horror fiction on the theme of ecology to fill a yearś best anthology, but it is better than that. Eco24 is filled to the brim with powerful and entertaining stories. Speculative fiction is uniquely p" Read more of this review »
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Marissa Uden and 4 other people liked R.L. Summerling's review of The Cellar Below the Cellar: A Folk Horror Novella: "The Cellar Below the Cellar is about Jane and her story of self discovery. Stranded during an unprecedented weather event, she finds herself with the unappealing prospect of living with her domineering grandmother and the interfering neighbours in th" Read more of this review »
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Marissa Uden and 4 other people liked Renée Z's review of The Cellar Below the Cellar: A Folk Horror Novella: "A dark yet funny coming-of-age story that blends folklore and post-apocalypse. Adorable characters, true evil and disappearing vegetables. Oh, and a beautiful reflection on death. A quick read, but I found it lingering in my mind long after I closed " Read more of this review »
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Marissa’s Quotes

“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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