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Patrick Matthews
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Dragon Run
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2013
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2 editions
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The Boy With The Sword
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2019
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3 editions
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Dragon Run
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Bradley's Dragons (The Nash Dragons Book 1)
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Emil
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Abigail's Dragons (The Nash Dragons #2)
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6 Strategies for Editing
Over the years, I’ve been in a number of different critique groups, most of which were populated by writers more talented than me.
For the first few groups, the critiques I received followed a pattern: the first pages would come back riddled with edits, and the ending pages would have mostly positive comments. Initially, I thought my fellow writers were just being kind. After beating me down, it’s
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"This book combines several themes that are independently oft-examined in sci-fi books. Can AI's be conscious? If we concluded they were, does it mean they do, or can have, souls? Independently of that question, will they be nice to us humans?
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"Can human and AI learn to live together?
Emil is a sentient, self-modifying AI developed to pilot a medical "rig" installed in Danny McGovern's body to prevent the seizures that are killing Danny. Danny should be in full control of the AI but Emil is n" Read more of this review » |
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"Emil by Patrick Matthews is about a boy Danny who gets an AI device surgically put inside of him to help stop his seizures but unfortunately the AI is more person than part in the rub comes when the AI must pretend to be Danny so is not to tip off Th"
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Patrick Matthews
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[Done] Emil should be attributed to me
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Thank you. I updated the post title.
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Patrick Matthews
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Abigail's Dragons is attributed to the wrong author
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