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David Harten Watson

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A lifelong environmentalist and solar energy enthusiast, David Harten Watson is the editor of Extinction Notice: Tales of a Warming Earth , a 2022 climate fiction (cli-fi) anthology of 41 stories by talented authors from all over the world. David is the author of the YA fantasy series Magicians' Gold, including Magic Teacher's Son (a 2016 Eric Hoffer Award Winner (Honorable Mention in category Young Adult), 2016 First Horizon Award Finalist, 2016 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List, and 2015 IAN Book of the Year Award Finalist) and a sequel, Fortress of Gold. full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), U.S. Army Brotherhood of Tanker ...more

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Cold Storage by David Koepp waCold StorageCold Storages well-written but poorly researched, containing laughably obvious plot mistakes!

Although otherwise well-written, Cold Storage illustrates the perils of writing about a subject about which the author knows nothing, and not bothering to do any research beyond Wikipedia. It was obvious that the author is a screenwriter and not a novelist, because Read more of this blog post »
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