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Chris Durston

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Born

The United Kingdom

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Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Neil Gaimain, Haruki Murakami, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Jorge Luis Borges ...more

Member Since

July 2019

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'Chris Durston refuses to be dull ... He doesn't see the point of writing a story if he can't take full advantage of the medium and do things within that medium that can't be done in any other.'

From Devon, in the South West of England, Chris Durston has always wanted to be a writer and only just got around to doing anything about it. Each Little Universe is his debut novel, initially conceived while studying English literature and philosophy at Cardiff University and finally published five years later.

In addition to being a new author, he is the host of Philosophiraga, a podcast about video games and philosophy. ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 340 ratings · 199 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mortal Coils: The Necromancer's Apprentice Book 1 4.29 avg rating — 62 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
	Chimera by Ashley Hutchison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Bliss (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jaecyn Bone (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.65 avg rating — 48 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
	Each Little Universe 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings — 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
	Winter Wonders: An Anthology of Winter-Themed Speculative Fiction by Chris Durston (Goodreads Author), C.D. Storiz (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), L.T. Adams (Contributor) 4.58 avg rating — 12 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
	Chronicles from the World of Guilt 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	A Recipe for Disaster 4.18 avg rating — 11 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
	Video Games: Art, Theory, Design, Philosophy 3.50 avg rating — 2 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
	Can video games be art? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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
	Mortal Coils by Chris Durston (Goodreads Author), Courteney Penney (Editor), C D Corrigan (Cover Art) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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
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The Inventory Tales has launched!

It’s here!

The Inventory Tales is basically The Canterbury Tales in a fantasy item shop: our hero, Wren, is looking for a quieter life and maybe, I dunno, a purpose or something, and for some reason everyone seems to want to tell her their stories.

Also there’s a dungeon and magic and epic quests and lots of lengthy descriptions of delicious food, so that’s all fun.

Best thing is it’s absolutely free

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

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I don't think it's a novel observation these days that apparent nonsense can hide some of the most useful wisdom, or that plenty of reality has become so much like nonsense that nonsense seems in fact quite sensible, but it's quite joyous to just emb ...more
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