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Anna LaForge

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http://www.goodreads.com/annalaforge

born

Philadelphia, The United States

gender

female

website

http://annalaforge.com

twitter username

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genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Ursula K. LeGuin, Sheri S. Tepper, Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler

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October 2011

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Anna LaForge read Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings" at fourteen, Asimov’s "Foundation Trilogy" at sixteen, and LeGuin’s "The Left Hand of Darkness" at eighteen, at which time she decided that she, too, wanted to create new worlds. Born in Philadelphia, she has lived throughout the country, from urban centers in the Midwest and Northeast to tiny Andrews,Texas. A former executive director of several not-for-profit arts organizations, she divides her time between teaching and writing.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 13 ratings · 4 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Marcella Fragment 3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Agave Revealed 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 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

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Anna LaForge rated a book 3 of 5 stars The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski (Goodreads Author)	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
21. Mai, 16:35 Uhr
Anna LaForge voted on a poll in the group Sci-Fi Fantasy Book Club What book do you want to read in June? The theme is 'Gollancz SF Masterworks'. She voted for:
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Anna LaForge rated a book 4 of 5 stars A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski (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
21. Mai, 16:28 Uhr
Anna LaForge made a comment on the poll: What book do you want to read in June? The theme is 'Gollancz SF Masterworks'. "So there are no "Masterworks of SciFi" written by women? Not even Ursula LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness?" Or do you put them in a different categ...more "
21. Mai, 16:24 Uhr
Anna LaForge made a comment in the group Beyond Reality — What are you reading in May 2013? topic "I'm a hundred pages into Joan Slonczewski's THE HIGHEST FRONTIER, about a "spacehab" college developed for rich, genetically enhanced kids to spare th...more "
13. Mai, 15:38 Uhr
Anna LaForge liked a trivia question "In The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, what is the subject of the narrator's first drawing?"
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Anna LaForge made a comment in the group Beyond Reality — What are you reading in March, 2013? topic "Just ordered [image] so as to keep reading Slonczwski."
05. März, 14:26 Uhr
Anna LaForge rated a book 3 of 5 stars The Companions by Sheri S. Tepper read in February, 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
04. März, 07:59 Uhr

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“I love him, and I love us together more than I love myself. I will do what you ask, but if," Kara swallowed hard, "...if I lose him, I'll join him in death." Vena resisted the urge to stroke the fine mass of dark curls away from the heart-shaped face that gazed at her so fiercely. The woman who faced her, proudly announcing her ability to choose, was no longer the winsome, pliable girl of the garden.”
― Anna LaForge, The Marcella Fragment

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“[Miracles] . . . seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made fine, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears hear what is there about us always.”
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“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
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