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Alan DeNiro

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Erie, Pennsylvania, The United States

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http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Jorge Luis Borges, Gene Wolfe, James Tiptree Jr., Alejo Carpentier, Ai ...more

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April 2008

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I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania and went to school at the College of Wooster and the University of Virginia. My short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, was published in 2006 by Small Beer Press. It was a finalist for the Crawford Award. My first novel, Total Oblivion, More or Less, came out in 2009 from Ballantine/Spectra. In the starred review, Booklist said: "There aren't many writers who take weirdness as seriously as DeNiro does, and fewer still who can extract so much grounded emotion, gut-dropping humor, and rousing adventure from it. A dizzying display of often brilliant, always strange, and definitely unique storytelling." I live outside St. Paul with my wife Kristin, 2 dogs, and 2 cats. With twins coming soo...more

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Total Oblivion, More or Less available as audiobook!

my novel Total Oblivion, More or Less is now available as an audiobook at Audible.com! You can download it at the link below. It's unabridged, clocking in about nine and a half hours, and Tara Sands does a superb job with the narration.

http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?... read more »

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Books by Alan DeNiro

Average rating: 3.44 · 330 ratings · 94 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Total Oblivion, More or Less 3.12 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead 3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Black Hare 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Long Voyages, Great Lies 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Trampoline: An Anthology by Kelly Link (Editor), Karen Joy Fowler (Contributor), Carol Emshwiller (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories by John Klima (Editor), Hal Duncan (Contributor), Anna Tambour (Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bandersnatch by Sean Wallace, Afifah Myra Muffaz (Contributor), Seth Cully (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Caketrain Issue 05 by Kristin Abraham (Goodreads Author), Matthew Cooperman (Goodreads Author), Alan DeNiro (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 by Rich Horton (editor), C.S.E. Cooney (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Marissa Lingen (contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

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