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Guy Riddihough

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in York, The United Kingdom

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Who are the authors I most revere? Stanislaw Lem, for his slow-burn philosophical scifi; Christopher Priest for his mind-bending mirror fiction; Gene Wolfe for his stunning world-building; John Wyndham for his plot and narrative genius; and J.G. Ballard for his surreal visions of the future. I take elements from these authors and blend them into stories that span genres and hybridize tropes to create worlds sometimes deceptively familiar and at others far, far different than the places we know.

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	The Glass Weaver's Tale and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2023 — 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
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A Slow World Ending

In fiction, reporting the gradual collapse of a society over time presents more of a challenge than the classic disaster-ends-the-world-as we-know-it trope.

There is intrinsic drama in a catastrophic precipitating event — such as plague (as in Christopher’s own The Death of Grass) or a massive comet hitting the Earth (as in Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle).

“Gradual collapse” is

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

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