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Matthew Alan Thyer

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in Grand Junction, CO, The United States

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http://www.feetforbrains.com

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Science Fiction, Fiction, Ebooks

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Matthew Alan Thyer is an independent author writing hard-science fiction with a twist. Currently publishing a series of stories which share the theme “sports in space.” He is an Army veteran who served as a signals intelligence analyst. Prior to finding his voice as a writer he worked as an operations engineer, wildland firefighter, backcountry ranger, kayak guide and river rat.

Matt’s hobbies include trail running, backpacking, skiing, mountaineering, bicycling, and paragliding.

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	The Galaxy Chronicles by Jeff Seymour (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samuel Peralta (Goodreads Author), Nick Webb 3.98 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Doomsday Chronicles by Crystal Watanabe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samuel Peralta (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2016	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
	Invisible 2: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F by Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Sarah Chorn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet by Samuel Peralta (Goodreads Author), Nick Webb, K.J. Fieler (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 38 ratings	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 Big Red Buckle by Matthew Alan Thyer (Goodreads Author), Jeffrey Witty (Illustrations) 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — 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 Tokyo Yakuza Anthology Project (The Tokyo Yakuza Anthology Project, #1) by Joshua Waddies, Michelle Biddix-Simmons, Todd Sullivan (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	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
	Joulupukki 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	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
	On the Left Foot: A Tale of the Long Earth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Tokyo Yakuza #11: Mob Dance by Matthew Alan Thyer (Goodreads Author), Mato Granic (Illustrator), Nicholas Phillips (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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 Big Red Buckle by Matthew Alan Thyer (December 04,2013) by Matthew Alan Thyer (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

“I thought this was supposed to be a desert,” the hiker who said this just made a mad dash from their tent to the cabana at CLEEF. The low gray clouds open up and dump a goodly portion of the Pacific on the camping grounds. Everything is instantly wet.

“It’s March. This happens.”

The previous day I’d taken the shuttle from San Diego to the campground. This gathering of horse corrals and dirt parking

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31 Days Before your CCNA Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the CCNA 200-301 Certification Exam

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The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond: Pass the DOP-C01 exam and prepare for the real world using case studies and real-life examples

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“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

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“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Aldo Leopold

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“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

tags: inspirational, nature, science

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“A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.”
― Haruki Murakami

tags: novels, short-stories, writing-process

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“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

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