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Alison Sinclair is a science fiction and fantasy author.

About my ratings: They're going to be completely, unabashedly, shamelessly skewed towards the high end. I have read thousands of books, and I've made nine long-distance moves in my lifetime, and the books that have hung in with me through those moves or lingered in my memory are books that gave me pleasure, whether the high intellectual pleasure of a mind-stretching, challenging read, or the low, shameless, merry pleasure of a sparky bit of trash. I have sour memories of being an apprentice writer in a town where the local newspaper give one page a week to book reviews, and week after week the reviewers panned everything. So I reserve the right to include, rate, and review only books t...more


Notes from a panel at last week's Farthing Party. titled "Generation Starships", description, "Are we there yet?" (anyone who has ever traveled with a child, or traveled as a child, knows that one), and the panelists were Alec Austin, Jo Walton, Debra Doyle, Helen Wright, Marie Bilodeau, and myself.

Jo kicked off by saying that there had been a panel at August's Pi-Con (the con with the unschedu...

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Published on October 01, 2011 07:00 • 20 views
Average rating: 3.49 · 877 ratings · 229 reviews · 9 distinct works
Darkborn (Darkborn Trilogy,...
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Lightborn (Darkborn Trilogy...
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Shadowborn (Darkborn Trilog...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Cavalcade
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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Legacies: Legacies
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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Blueheart
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003
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4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003
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More books by Alison Sinclair…
Darkborn Lightborn Shadowborn
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A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
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Persona & Shame by Ingmar Bergman
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Naval Battles of the First World War by Geoffrey Bennett
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Moa's Ark by David Bellamy
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Deep New Zealand by Peter Batson
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Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot
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Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
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Ion Channels and Disease by Frances M. Ashcroft
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Life At The Extremes by Frances Ashcroft
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More of Alison's books…
“I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.”
Alison Sinclair, Shadowborn

“Bal," she whispered, her forehead resting against his chest as the seconds counted away. "The only power I'd wish for is the power to turn back time.”
Alison Sinclair, Darkborn

“[Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.'
[Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.'
'That is... gentlemanly of you.”
Alison Sinclair, Lightborn

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OCTOBER FANTASY: This poll decides which two books move on to the run-off poll for October 2011 Fantasy Book of the Month.

 
  40 votes, 40.4%

 
  16 votes, 16.2%

 
  13 votes, 13.1%

 
  9 votes, 9.1%

 
  8 votes, 8.1%

 
  6 votes, 6.1%

 
  4 votes, 4.0%

 
  3 votes, 3.0%

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