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Rik Roots

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in Kent, England

September 29, 1964

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Rik was born in the small village of Dymchurch on the Romney Marshes in Kent, England. Dymchurch has three Martello Towers and a station on the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway. This was Rik's world for the first 24 years of his life, except for six terms away at college - the North East Surrey College of Technology: Rik somehow managed to fail his final school exams and thus never made it to university.

Rik only lives part-time on Earth; for the past three and a half decades much of his spare time has been spent in his constructed world, Kalieda. In this world, Rik has learned to be a benificent and bountiful God, populating the place with a paradise-worth of beasts to go alongside the various civilisations and societies that have g ...more

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	Poems to Quote to your Lover 2.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Let's talk about gardens.

I live in Hackney. Not the richest part of the capital. Yet, when I walk around Hackney, I often come across stunning examples of gardening. Sometimes an immaculate display fronting a council flat; sometimes a perfectly planned cascade of shape and colour from a window ledge.

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Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

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