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David Nickle

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http://www.goodreads.com/David_Nickle

born

Newmarket, Canada

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male

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http://davidnickle.googlepages.com

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Horror, Humor, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Stephen King, Stephen Millhauser, Peter Straub, Joe R. Lansdale, H.P....more

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February 2010

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David Nickle lives and works in Toronto. He's had more than 30 short stories published in magazines, anthologies and online, and adapted for television. In 1997, he and Edo Van Belkom won a Bram Stoker Award for their short story "Rat Food." In 1993, he and Karl Schroeder co-wrote "The Toy Mill" and won an Aurora Award for short form work in English. In 1997, they published The Claus Effect, an expansion on that story. It's available from EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Some of his stories are collected in Monstrous Affections, published in 2009 by ChiZine Publications. In 2010, Monstrous Affections was awarded the Black Quill Reader's Choice Award for best dark genre collection.

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What Is City 512?

It's a good question--such a good question that you won't likely find an answer here. Better to go visit WhatIsCity512 (Rasputinsbastards.com) the website launched today to offer some tidbits and morsels concerning my upcoming novel Rasputin's Bastards.

You've seen the cover on this blog before. The new website, which you can go straight to by clicking here--offers up video and documents and ne... read more »

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Books by David Nickle

Average rating: 3.57 · 338 ratings · 99 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism 3.34 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Monstrous Affections 3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Claus Effect by David Nickle (Goodreads Author), Karl Schroeder 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rasputin's Bastards 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction by Michael Rowe (Editor), C. Mark Umland, David Quinn 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales of the Great White North by Nancy Kilpatrick (Editor), David Morrell (Editor), Kevin Kvas 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell -- Lewd Did I Live by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brent Hayward (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nancy Kilpatrick (Contributor) 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction by Cory Doctorow (Editor), Holly Phillips (Editor), Daniel Archambault (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Best Horror of the Year (Vol. 4) by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen King, Livia Llewellyn (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories by John Robert Colombo (Editor), Brett Alexander Savory (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jon Martin Watts (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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You Shall Never Know Security

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David Nickle liked Madeline Ashby's review of Jane Eyre: " I recently re-read this novel for the fourth or fifth time. This time I made certain to read through at my own pace, without either any dawdling or skipping ahead. And you know what? It was fantastic. Better than any other time I had read it. The... " Read more of this review »
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David Nickle liked Lorina Stephens's review of The Pattern Scars: " It would be very easy to wax poetic about Caitlin Sweet's, The Pattern Scars. Deservedly so. From the first sentences Sweet demonstrates her craftsmanship by translating the reader into a richly and perfectly realized world, populated by people wh... " Read more of this review »
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David Nickle voted on a poll in the Goodreads Authors/Readers group Publishers are loathe to publish novellas, feeling readers aren't interested. So, the question in si...more he voted for Basically disagree
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David Nickle is currently reading: You Shall Never Know Security by J.R. Hamantaschen (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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From my blog, The Devil's Exercise Yard: I remember when I first read Salem's Lot. I suspect that most of you do - at least those of you in your 40s, who grew up in the 1970s and 80s and were immune to the not-so-subtle charms of disco, citizens band...more
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