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Brenda Cooper

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http://www.goodreads.com/Bjcooper

born

August 12, 1960 in Encino, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.brenda-cooper.com

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Rudyard Kiplin ...more

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December 2008

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Brenda Cooper has published fiction in Analog, Oceans of the Mind, Nature, and in multiple anthologies. She is the author of the Endeavor award winner for 2008: THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, and of the sequels, READING THE WIND and WINGS OF CREATION. By day, she is the City of Kirkland’s CIO, and at night and in early morning hours, she’s a futurist and writer.

Brenda's most recent book is Mayan December, from Prime Books.

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Reading Recommendation: Imagine How Creativity Works, by Jonah Lehrer

I promised some more reviews of non-fiction. There was a bit of serendipity to me reading this book: one of my co-workers, Christian Knight, came up and told me about the book by telling me the first story in the book (which is about how mops were improved). Christian is a creative guy who writes video scripts for us at the City (as

well as doing other communications work), and so I filed away...

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Books by Brenda Cooper

Average rating: 3.66 · 4,205 ratings · 200 reviews · 28 distinct works

	The Silver Ship and the Sea (The Silver Ship, #1) 3.50 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Reading the Wind (The Silver Ship, #2) 3.53 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mayan December 3.39 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wings of Creation (The Silver Ship, #3) 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Stories Fly: A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	New Generation of African Writers: Migration, Material Culture & Language 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Building Harlequin's Moon by Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Black Armbands 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Transgressing Boundaries: New Directions In The Study Of Culture In Africa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Magical Realism in West African Fiction 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:

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The Silver Ship (3 books)
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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Brenda Cooper gave to: Of Blood and Honey (The Fey and the Fallen, #1) by Stina Leicht (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2012	My rating:
I liked this very much. I came away feeling like I learned a lot about the time, I enjoyed the characters, and I'm very likely to pick up her next book and enjoy it, too. I think part of the magic for me was that this set in a time I remember, in a p...more
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Brenda Cooper gave to: The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss	My rating:
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Brenda Cooper gave to: The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss	My rating:
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Brenda Cooper gave to: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling read in December, 2011	My rating:
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