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Lee Battersby is the multiple-award winning author of the novels 'The Corpse-Rat King' (Angry Robot 2012) and 'Marching Dead' (Angry Robot 2013) as well as over 70 short stories, many of which are collected in 'Through Soft Air' (Prime Books 2006). He has appeared in markets as diverse as Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Volume 20; Year's Best Australian F&SF; Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror vol. 3; and Dr Who: Destination Prague.

His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle, and has resulted in a number of awards including the Aurealis, Australian Shadows and Australian SF ‘Ditmar' gongs. He was the 6th Australian, and 1st Western Australian, winner in the international 'Writers of th...more Lee Battersby is the multiple-award winning author of the novels 'The Corpse-Rat King' (Angry Robot 2012) and 'Marching Dead' (Angry Robot 2013) as well as over 70 short stories, many of which are collected in 'Through Soft Air' (Prime Books 2006). He has appeared in markets as diverse as Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Volume 20; Year's Best Australian F&SF; Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror vol. 3; and Dr Who: Destination Prague.

His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle, and has resulted in a number of awards including the Aurealis, Australian Shadows and Australian SF ‘Ditmar' gongs. He was the 6th Australian, and 1st Western Australian, winner in the international 'Writers of the Future' competition in 2001.

In 2007 he was a tutor at renowned international SF workshop Clarion South, where he learned to play Mafia and helped inspire at least one discussion of impact physics in unicorn-porn horror stories. He was editor of issue 4 of Midnight Echo and acted as judge for both the 2011 Aurealis awards and 2011 AHWA Flash/Short Fiction Competition. He was content creator for the Writing the SF Short Story course at the Australian Writers Marketplace Online and tutored the first run of the course in 2011.

Lee is represented by Richard Henshaw of the Richard Henshaw Group. If you'd like to offer him millions of dollars to run naked through the streets of your town, contact Richard and he'll sort out the contract.

Lee lives in Mandurah, Western Australia, with his wife, writer Lyn Battersby and an increasingly weird mob of kids. He is sadly obsessed with Lego, Nottingham Forest football club, dinosaurs and Daleks. He's been a stand-up comic, tennis coach, cartoonist, poet, and tax officer in previous times, and he currently works as Arts Officer for a local council, where he gets to play with artists all day. All in all, life is pretty good.

You can read more about him at his website. He also maintains a blog at The Battersblog, and will often wave back if you throw pebbles at his window.

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	The Corpse-Rat King 3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	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 Marching Dead 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	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
	Midnight Echo #4 4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	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
	Through Soft Air 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	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 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gavin J. Grant (Editor), Kelly Link (Editor) 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	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
	Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction by Jack Dann (Goodreads Author) (editor), Garth Nix (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Richard Harland (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings — 2 editions	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
	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 by Algis Budrys (Editor), Frank Frazetta (Cover Artist), Ray Roberts (Contributor) 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	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
	New Ceres Nights by Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tehani Wessely (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tansy Rayner Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	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
	Short Trips: Destination Prague (Doctor Who Short Trips Anthology Series) by Steven Savile (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sean Williams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), James A. Moore (Contributor) 3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007	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 Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Talie Helene (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sara Douglass 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	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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Lee Battersby rated a book 1 of 5 stars A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer read in May, 2013	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
Jeffrey Dahmer will long be remembered as one of the most gruesome and appalling serial killers of all time. But if there was any hope that the reader might gain any insight into his mental makeup by reading this memoir, by the man who should have kn...more
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Lee Battersby rated a book 4 of 5 stars God Is A Bullet by Boston Teran read in January, 2013	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
a stunning first novel, unrelenting in its ferocity, with realistic characters scattered throughout and protagonists who act from a consistent sense of righteousness, no matter which side of the narrative they inhabit. There are no compromises at pla...more
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Lee Battersby rated a book 2 of 5 stars Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote by Truman Capote read in September, 2012	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
Capote is a fascinating figure, but too often this collection of letters reveal him as a shallow, bitchy little creature lacking the depth and, at times, puckish brilliance of his humour that can be seen so readily in other treatments of the man. Cla...more
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Lee Battersby rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Bookman (The Bookman Histories, #1) by Lavie Tidhar read in April, 2013	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
Fun, entertaining, and delightfully madcap. A bunch of hanging plot ends that I hope will be tied tighter in the sequel, but for the most part it's a delightful mashing together of famous and not-so-famous Victorian figures-- some historical, some li...more
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Lee Battersby rated a book 3 of 5 stars Embassytown by China Miéville (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2013	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
Really difficult to get into for the first hundred pages, and I was on the verge of giving up several times, but I am a fan of Mieville's work, so I persevered, and was paid off with a fascinating and beautifully structured book, before the last act...more
Apr 27, 2013 12:46am · see review
Lee Battersby rated a book 3 of 5 stars The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie read in April, 2013	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
Epic in scope, with a massive cast and a set of actions taking in multiple corners of a fascinating and immensely complicated political world, this volume introduces Abercrombie's gritty and bloodstained 'realist' take on the fantasy genre, as well a...more
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Lee Battersby rated a book 2 of 5 stars Superman: Reign of Doomsday by Paul Cornell (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2013	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
When it comes right down to it, there just isn't any way to make Superman actually interesting, is there? As a character he's sadly two-dimensional, and his supporting 'family'-- Steel, Superboy, The Eradicator and Supergirl-- are unutterably lightwe...more
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Lee Battersby rated a book 4 of 5 stars Avengers Assemble, Vol. 2 by Kurt Busiek read in April, 2013	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
Good, 'proper', Avengers fun, with strong interpersonal dynamics, distinct and unique voices, a combination of individual storylines and group threats, and of course, wham-bam fight action that occurs as the result of narrative build-up and doesn't j...more
Apr 20, 2013 07:03pm · see review

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“It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?”
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“The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.”
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“Marius had never understood the notion of blind loyalty. He had served everyone from kings and caliphs to head dishwasher at the local brothel, and only ever with one objective: to relieve someone of the cruel burden of their money.”
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