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Scott L. Nelson

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Born

Queenstown, New Zealand

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Science Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary

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Orwell, Fitzgerald, Wilde, Spike Mulligan, Huxley, Arthur C. Clarke.

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Scott Nelson grew up in an evangelical cult at the bottom of the world, and was the first person in his family to attend university.

His background is in daily news journalism and feature writing in New Zealand, England and Halifax. Besides journalism, he has worked as a tour guide, labourer, soldier, barman, salesperson, geriatric nurse and IT system administrator. He's lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada since 2010.

Since 2013, Scott has self published four fiction and non-fiction books, and has sold hundreds of copies in total on Amazon. He was short-listed two years running (fiction and NF) for the Writers' Federation of N.S. 'Nova Writes' awards.

Scott is a lifelong sf and space opera fan, and for the past couple of years has been writ ...more

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Average rating: 4.35 · 180 ratings · 39 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Carer 4.24 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS : A Fat Bastard’s Guide to Trekking in Northern South America 4.43 avg rating — 42 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
	Common Sense Ain’t So Common: A handbook for the human condition 4.64 avg rating — 28 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
	A Simple Change: A Sweetbridge Fable by Scott L. Nelson (Goodreads Author), Tommy Deuschle 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

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New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

by Kingsley Amis

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Encrypted Starpath (Jupiter's Eye Book 1)

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The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)

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Scott Nelson started reading New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction by Kingsley Amis	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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Started off well with a great premise, became a bit contrived after first act. Implausible in spots. Didn’t dig the current tense, either.
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Very good.
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By turns, funny, profound and thought provoking. A good read. Audio version is excellent.
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Scott Nelson is now following Adrian Tchaikovsky Author of Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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Scott Nelson and 5 other people liked Taylor Coleman's review of Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1): "1/5 legit. i dont know what yall have heard about this book but everything i was told before was a LIE. this had the most shallow world building and the characters were even worse! i was so down for their back stories (which we dont even get until th" Read more of this review »
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