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Bernard Assaf is a fiction dabbler (in other words, he enjoys creative writing during his sparse leisure time) and occasional editor of role-playing game items and related fiction. His career and livelihood have been tied to the software development industry since his high school days, but his hobbies have been inexorably tied to the science fiction and fantasy genres for even longer.

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	Beatdown at Big Battle Ridge! by Thessaly Chance Tracy, Chet Minton (Illustrator), Bernard Assaf (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Nasty Little Nobbits by Thessaly Chance Tracy, Simon Lee Tranter (Illustrator), Chet Minton (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Desperately Seeking Plumb Gorgeous by Thessaly Chance Tracy, Peryton Publishing (Publisher), Bernard Assaf (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	A Tale Beyond the Wasteland by Bernard Assaf (Goodreads Author), David Assaf IV it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Lizardmen in Red Water Bay (Agents of Lerotra'hh, #3) by James L. Shipman II (Game Master), Bernard Assaf (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Assaf IV (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	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
	Goblins in the Mists (Agents of Lerotra'hh, #2) by James L. Shipman II, Bernard Assaf (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Assaf IV (Contributor) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000 — 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
	Tales from the Wasteland by David Assaf IV, Bernard Assaf (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Agents of Lerotra'hh (Agents of Lerotra'hh, #1) by Ken St. Andre (Game Master), Bernard Assaf (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Assaf IV (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	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 Tale of Mr. Grizzly liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	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
	Cloak 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	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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19 Book series I want to finish

I took a look at my "already read" list today. Turns out I'm in the "middle" of more series than I realized. Perhaps I should try to finish some of them. I order them below by "longest amount of time since I read one in the series" to "shortest." Perhaps I'll re-engage some. Perhaps I won't. I'm not counting series where I read only 1 of and don't want to finish it.

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Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

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by Tom Moldvay

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Bernard made a comment on his review of The Past through Tomorrow (Future History or "Heinlein Timeline" #1-21) " I tried to add an update for Methuselah's Children (1941, 1958), which was the last installment in this book, but because I indicated I was on the las ...more "
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“Adults buy presents for kids to remember their own childhoods and remember how much fun it was to play, how much fun it was to pretend. I think we try to buy back our imagination around the holidays.”
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“Speed runs, Skywalker. Speed runs.”
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“A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

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“His eyes burned across the space between them like quasars. "We, Jaina, are the new Jedi order. And this is our war." -Jedi Master Kyp Durron”
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