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Jetse de Vries

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Jetse de Vries—@UpbeatFuture—is a technical specialist for a propulsion company by day, and a science fiction reader, editor (part of the Interzone team 2004 — 2008, the groundbreaking optimistic SF anthology SHINE) and writer (Clarkesworld, Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds, Escape Pod, and many more) by night.

He's also an avid bicyclist, total solar eclipse chaser, single malt aficionado, metalhead and intelligent optimist. On March 28, 2021, he posted the world’s first NFT SF novel on Ethereum’s Mintable. His first novels are about to come out.
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Starting May, 2021, I will start selling my upcoming novels.

So far I have written two duologies, which comprise four novels. Let’s call the first duology the ‘Forever’ one, and the second duology the ‘Replicant’ one. All four novels are finished. The ‘Forever’ novels are ready to be published, while I still need to adapt the ‘Replicant’ novels after beta reader comments (which will be ready well b Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 28, 2021 08:02 • Tags: forever-series

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	The Apex Book of World SF (Apex Book of World SF #1) by Lavie Tidhar (Editor), Dean Francis Alfar (Goodreads Author), S.P. Somtow (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2009 — 7 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
	Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction 3.38 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Altered States by Roy C. Booth (Editor), Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 139 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
	XIII: Stories of Transformation by Mark Teppo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Liz Argall (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rik Hoskin (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Forever Curious (Forever Series, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 8 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
	SHINE: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction by Jetse de Vries (Goodreads Author), Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2020	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
	Goddesses of the Sea: A Mermaid and Sea Maiden Anthology by Jetse de Vries (Goodreads Author), Doug Russell, Allison Epstein (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018 — 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
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