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Jon Wallace

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The United Kingdom

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Twitter

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Science Fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy

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Jack Womack, Iain M Banks, George Orwell, Raymond Chandler

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Jon Wallace is an author living in London.

The Kenstibec trilogy is out now from Gollancz - Barricade, Steeple and Rig. He has also had numerous stories published in magazines and collections like Interzone, Jupiter Science Fiction and Best British Fantasy 2013 and is the SciFi columnist for The Engineer Magazine.

His hobbies include watching the cricket and listening to his wife sing her way around the house.

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Barricade and Steeple, parts 1 and 2 in the Kenstibec series, are just £1.99/ $2.50 on ebook right now: behold! http://jonwallace.co/2017/04/barricad...

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Average rating: 3.73 · 533 ratings · 108 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Barricade 3.57 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2014 — 11 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
	Steeple 3.98 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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
	Rig 3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Various Authors by Rob Redman (Editor), Lynsey May (Goodreads Author), Charles Lambert (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	The Best British Fantasy 2013 by Steve Haynes (Editor), Simon Bestwick (Goodreads Author), Cate Gardner (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience by Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Martha Wells (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	The Singularity magazine (Issue 4) by Tim Major (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jon Wallace (Goodreads Author), Philip A. Suggars 4.67 avg rating — 9 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
	Interzone 243, November-December 2012 (Interzone, #243) by Andy Cox (Editor), Jon Wallace (Goodreads Author), Richard Wagner (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Interzone 235, July-August 2011 (Interzone, #235) by Andy Cox (Editor), Matthew Cook (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Mercurio D. Rivera (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Interzone 239, March-April 2012 (Interzone, #239) by Andy Cox (Editor), Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author), Mark Pexton (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 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

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The most use of ‘moreover’ in a novel I’ve ever encountered
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