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J.E. Mac worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Now, he bludgeons his soul onto the page and sells it off pennies at a time.

Growing up in Southern California, people often asked him where he was from. Uh, Southern California. His answer was met with a look of disappointment. "Oh..." Apparently, no one is from Southern California.

In light of that response, he wanted to concoct a biography about how he was a lonesome hermit living in the wilderness of Alaska. His only company was a stiff glass of whisky, his hunting dog Conan, and a great white bear that was stalking him. (That's not a metaphor. Polar bears, man! Polar bears!) He also wanted to say he was a New York Times Bestselling author. But that's a pipe dream. Besides, he wanted to be ...more

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	Alt.History 102 by Samuel Peralta (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Ellis (Goodreads Author), Will Swardstrom (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2016	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
	Beyond the Stars: Unimagined Realms: a space opera anthology by Patrice Fitzgerald (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Ellen Campbell (Editor), David Bruns (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 71 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
	Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet by Samuel Peralta (Goodreads Author), Nick Webb, K.J. Fieler (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 38 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
	Damaged Good 4.06 avg rating — 34 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
	Tempered in Steel: A Military Sci-Fi Series (The Constant War Book 1) 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — 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
	Pain Bringer (The Constant War Book 2) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
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J.E. Mac and 78 other people liked Maciek's review of Under the Skin: "Under the Skin is a reviewer's nightmare - it's literally impossible to discuss this book without touching the plot, and the whole thing hinges on mystery that surrounds it. This is a novel which is all about the big reveal, and Michel Faber delights" Read more of this review »
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J.E. Mac and 9 other people liked Marissa Higgins's review of Users: "I really, really enjoyed this novel. It's hard for me to get into books that don't dominantly feature LGBTQ people but this one really sucked me in regardless. It's smart, original, well-paced, funny, and also deeply sad. The comp to the TV show Seve" Read more of this review »
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J.E. Mac and 5 other people liked Wendy Liu's review of Users: "The architect subplot was pretty funny but sadly underexplored. I wanted the whole book to be about that."
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J.E. Mac and 2 other people liked Mike (the Paladin)'s review of One More Last Time (The Good Guys, #1): "Sorry guys...I read this years ago and forgot to rate/review it. Thus I started it again and realized (as noted) I'd read it. Pretty good litrpg. This is a genre which was a really good idea that (as tends to happen) a few good ones caught on and made" Read more of this review »
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Enjoyable plot and world building. But I am floored at how little it explored its own premise. It has a great hook, and sets it up in chapter 1! By the 70% mark I was wondering if they were ever going to do anything more with the Mickey8, the multiple, ...more
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J.E. Mac made a comment on Steve Beaulieu’s review of Mickey 7 (Mickey7 #1) " It’s strange to me that I hit the 70% mark and the book hadn’t done anything with its premise. Even weirder, I praised it for getting the hook and prem ...more "
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“A Dick and Jane story written in blood and battered bone.

See Spot.

See Spot run.

See Spot run from a gaping chest wound.

Run Spot run.

See Detective smear Spot into a baggy for DNA testing.”
― J.E. Mac, Damaged Good

tags: cyberpunk, detective, dick-and-jane, noir, see-spot-run, violence

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“No wonder you're depressed. You haven't fully accepted the use of controlled violence for the good of the community.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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“Because the longer you go on the worse it gets. And now, instead of preventing me from having effective dreams, you're going to start having them yourself. I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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“Are you . . . a policeman?"
"No. They'll be along shortly, I expect. Public suicide's a felony."
". . . I'm sorry.”
― James Tiptree Jr.

tags: suicide-scifi-cyberpunk

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“This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.”
― Stephen King, Cell

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“Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill

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