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Ted Cross

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Ted Cross is from Arizona and has spent the past three decades traveling the world as a diplomat, all the time dreaming about writing fantasy and science fiction. He has visited nearly forty countries and lived in ten, including the U.S., Russia, China, Croatia, Iceland, Hungary, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Italy, and Luxembourg. He has witnessed coup attempts, mafia and terrorist attacks, played chess with several world champions, and had bit parts in a couple of movies. He is married with two sons and currently lives in Janesville, Wisconsin.

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	The Immortality Game 3.70 avg rating — 294 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
	The Dragon Chronicles by Ellen Campbell (Editor), Samuel Peralta (Goodreads Author) (Forward), Elle Casey (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Shard 3.88 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2015 — 5 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
	Gateways by Ivan Amberlake (Goodreads Author), Ted Cross (Goodreads Author), Mindy Haig (Goodreads Author) 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Lord Fish 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Shattered Spire 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	Dragon Play 4.20 avg rating — 5 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

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This post may be more for myself than for anyone else, and it's an update of a post I did previously. I was trying to remember every concert I had seen, and I realized how difficult it is to recall them all, so I decided why not put up a post so I can more easily keep track!
I'm told that I saw Fleetwood Mac when I was very young, but I don't have any recollection of that, so I don't count it. So t Read more of this blog post »

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I started with the third book in the series because I read people saying that it was much better than the first two and I wanted to see if the series was worth reading given how many books are in it. Oddly enough, although the writing contained many ...more
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“If there was one thing Zoya had learned in life, it was that men always walked away from their responsibilities.”
― Ted Cross, The Immortality Game

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“Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.”
― Maynard James Keenan

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“The eyes of men were but pinholes...All their books, even their scriptures, were nothing more than pinholes. And yet, because they couldn't see what was unseen, they assumed they saw everything, they confused pinpricks with the sky.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought

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“the 'fairy-story' is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

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