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James P. Blaylock

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James P. Blaylock


Born
in Long Beach, California, The United States
September 20, 1950

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


James Paul Blaylock is an American fantasy author. He is noted for his distinctive style. He writes in a humorous way: His characters never walk, they clump along, or when someone complains (in a flying machine) that flight is impossible, the other characters agree and show him why he's right.

He was born in Long Beach, California; studied English at California State University, Fullerton, receiving an M.A. in 1974; and lives in Orange, California, teaching creative writing at Chapman University. Many of his books are set in Orange County, California, and can more specifically be termed "fabulism" — that is, fantastic things happen in our present-day world, rather than in traditional fantasy, where the setting is often some other world. His ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 19,343 ratings · 1,716 reviews · 102 distinct works • Similar authors
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Series by James P. Blaylock

The Digging Leviathan Homunculus Lord Kelvin's Machine The Ebb Tide The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs Zeuglodon The Aylesford Skull
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The Last Coin The Paper Grail All the Bells on Earth
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The Elfin Ship The Disappearing Dwarf The Stone Giant
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Night Relics Winter Tides The Rainy Season
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“Strange things are said to have happened in this world — some are said to be happening still — but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.”
― James P. Blaylock, Paper Dragons
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“Considering the number of ghastly love poems that had been written and which seemed fairly clearly a waste of everyone's time, Jonathan couldn't help but be surprised that coffee hadn't been thus immortalized.”
― James P. Blaylock, The Elfin Ship
tags: coffee, humor, poetry
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“There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.”
― James P. Blaylock, Night Relics
tags: adulthood, childhood, growing-up, imagination, life, naivety
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JANUARY FANTASY: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run off poll for the January 2015 Fantasy BOTM.

 
  22 votes, 29.3%

 
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  7 votes, 9.3%

 
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  6 votes, 8.0%

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