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Steve Morris

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born

Staffordshire /Cheshire border UK, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.s-morris.co.uk

twitter username

jumbletales

genre

Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

influences

Philip K. Dick, Arnold Bennett, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Chris Diffor ...more

member since

March 2010

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Steve Morris

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With a background in math and science, Steve Morris travels around his region of the UK teaching students who are too ill to get to school.
Despite his chosen vocation, one of Steve's passions in life is his love of English literature and of antiquarian books.

Maverick, individual and never afraid to speak his mind, Steve was taught to read fluently by his parents when he was four years old.

Story writing began early at school where he enjoyed some success.

With a seemingly never ending supply of bizarre short stories, Steve moved out of the classroom which allowed him time to type up his tales. First appearing in anthologies and magazines the stories were collected in Steve's first book "In All Probability" whic...more

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Steve Morris's Blog: Re-writing

Damaging Goodreads reviews

I don't know if anyone else has noticed a growth in the number of people leaving vague one and two star book reviews around Goodreads recently.

After receiving a couple of these, I checked out some of the other ratings that these "reviewers" had been leaving for books. The very same people have left one-star reviews for books by Charles Dickens and other eminent Victorians, Stephen King and othe... read more »

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Books by Steve Morris

Average rating: 4.18 · 71 ratings · 46 reviews · 4 distinct works

	In All Probability 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Jumble Tales 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Playing Havoc 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Terminating Vegas by Robert E. Wacaster, Steve Morris (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Steve Morris added a quote "A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Steve Morris made a comment in the group Q&A with Steve Morris — New books for 2012 topic " [image] Official release date 26th July 2012 "
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Steve Morris gave to: Tales of Tomorrow Girl by Robert Szeles (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
This is a review of just the Title short story Tomorrow Girl from Tales of Tomorrow girl, recommended to me as a lover of avante-garde and short sci-fi work. There are many echoes of Philip K. Dick within the pace and style of Tomorrow Girl and I am s...more
May 22, 2012 01:41pm · see review
Steve Morris made a comment on Richard's review of Tales of Tomorrow Girl "Whoops, you're right. It looks like I downloaded the title story as a single story Kindle from Amazon.uk by mistake, rather than the collection with a...more "
May 22, 2012 01:39pm · see review
Steve Morris voted on a poll in the ~Can't Stop Reading~ group Vote for our June 1001 Books to Read Before You Die he voted for Dracula
May 17, 2012 10:40am · take the poll
Steve Morris marked as to-read: Exmoor & Lorna Doone by Ken Ward	My rating:
May 12, 2012 07:04am
Steve Morris liked Richard's review of Tales of Tomorrow Girl: " This is a set of delightful tales by an author who claims Fritz Leiber as his literary father. Like Szeles' earlier works, these stories deal with the dynamics of human relationships. And though the collection is science fiction with a "retro flav... " Read more of this review »
May 12, 2012 07:01am · see review
Steve Morris made a comment on Sunshines2008 Louisa's review of Jumble Tales "Excellent. Thank you for that Sunshines2008. "
May 05, 2012 12:01am · see review
Steve Morris gave to: Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett	My rating:
There are so many books to read that rarely can I justify reading a book more than once. I have read Clayhanger three times due to Bennett creation of one of literary's most sympathetic and empathetic characters in Edwin Clayhanger. The rest of the se...more
May 02, 2012 01:21pm · see review
Steve Morris marked as to-read: Playing Havoc by Steve Morris (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
May 01, 2012 11:28pm

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