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Stephen Moss

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Born

in Leamington Spa, The United Kingdom

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Science Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

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IAIN M. BANKS, PETER F. HAMILTON, DAVID WEBER, RYK BROWN, CHRISTOPHER ...more

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Stephen Moss was born in England, but spent time as a child in wildly diverse places, including several years in Brazil, Belgium, and Malaysia.

He eventually settled in New York, but still travels avidly, something he uses as inspiration and input to his writing. Stephen is a fan of Hard SF by masters such as Iain M. Banks, Orson Scott Card, Peter F. Hamilton and the many other fantastic writers creating masterpieces every year.

His first novel, Fear the Sky, combines his passions for science fiction with a solid, realistic foundation, with his passion for travel. The novel takes place across the globe, from London, to Brussels, to DC, to the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the back streets of Tel Aviv. The few places in ...more

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Stephen Moss With The Fear Saga, I really wanted to explore what it would be like to encounter an alien race, not as equals, because anyone that can get here from …moreWith The Fear Saga, I really wanted to explore what it would be like to encounter an alien race, not as equals, because anyone that can get here from another world would vastly, vastly superior to us technologically, but as the receivers of either their mercy or their wrath, a pawn in a greater power play.

I wanted to explore what it would be like for us to feel the way so many great civilizations of Earth must have before they were lost to the ages because they clashed with a greater power, like the Incas and the Aztecs for example, not to mention the technologically limited but often societally inspiring Native American tribes now subsumed into, and under western culture.

Of course, just to have it be a story of obliteration would be a frankly uninspiring tale, so instead I considered that, because we would be encountering an entire world, not, for example, just a few opportunists from a European superpower, the chances of organized and broad dissent among even the upper echelons of the coming force would be possible, even likely, and it would be on that, not our own devices, that our fate would hinge.

Not a happy tale, perhaps, but I hope it is an engaging one, and am very excited and proud of the way it is taking shape. I am well into writing the final book now and have to say even I am surprised at where it has gone.

But no spoilers. I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know what you think.(less)

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What are you currently working on?

Stephen Moss I am currently finishing up Book 2 in the Fear Saga, Fear the Survivors. It should be ready this week, so I am very excited about that. The final chap…moreI am currently finishing up Book 2 in the Fear Saga, Fear the Survivors. It should be ready this week, so I am very excited about that. The final chapter in the trilogy is already 50% drafted as well, so that will be out by the end of this year. I also have a new project I am working on, The Similar Infinites, which should be ready early in 2015. (less)

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Average rating: 4.05 · 16,261 ratings · 917 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fear the Sky (The Fear Saga, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 7,676 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Fear the Survivors (The Fear Saga, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 4,673 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Fear the Future (The Fear Saga #3) 3.91 avg rating — 3,908 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Explorations: Through the Wormhole by Nathan Hystad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jacob Cooper (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Richard Fox (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 363 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

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“Meetings were, almost by definition, the product of the indecisive mind, and so they were usually run, and often populated, by indecisive people.”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Sky

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“people who are more worried about the survival of their political careers than they are about the survival of the planet.”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Survivors

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“Shangri-La.”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Future

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Stephen’s Quotes

“people who are more worried about the survival of their political careers than they are about the survival of the planet.”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Survivors

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“Meetings were, almost by definition, the product of the indecisive mind, and so they were usually run, and often populated, by indecisive people.”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Sky

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“A person standing in a field is actually moving at a thousand miles an hour around the Earth’s center, which is revolving around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles per hour, which is revolving around the center of the Milky Way at a pace beggaring belief, which is hurtling outward from the point of origin at speeds faster than any craft we had ever made. ”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Future

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“Occasionally some people think more with their right brains than with their left. They are often our greatest artists. They are also often considered insane. But the biggest difference is with age. We forget how to listen to our right brains with time. We imprison them with logic and prejudice until our greatest source of creativity and brilliance is locked behind a wall of assumption and primitive common sense, and then it is heard only as an echo.”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Survivors

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“The splitting of the human mind down the middle was one of those foibles of evolution that had no practical application, but because it had no downsides great enough to have prompted natural selection to weed it out, it had remained. ”
― Stephen Moss, Fear the Survivors

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