Scott Lynch




Scott Lynch

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born
April 02, 1978

gender
male

place of birth
Saint Paul, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy


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He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 2, 1978, the first of three brothers. He's lived in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area his entire life; currently, he's just across the border in Wisconsin, about half an hour east of the Twin Cities.

The Lies of Locke Lamora, his first novel, was bought by Simon Spanton at Orion Books in August, 2004. Prior to that he had just about every job you usually see in this sort of author bio-- dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, and freelance writer.

He's very much your standard-issue geek-of-all-trades; he likes history, literature, films, contemporary and classic Macs (huzzah beige boxes!), gaming, and game design. He collects old Choose Your Own Adven...more




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I suppose my venom in my previous post can be attributed, in part, to a discovery made during tonight's revision binge. Namely, that there's a continuity error so glaring early in the final third of TRoT that I simply cannot believe I let it slip in in the first place.

But these things clearly do happen, and there's an escalating continnum of author responses. Some errors can be rectified with the... ...more
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avg rating: 4.18 | 2,991 ratings | 653 reviews | 6 distinct works | 98 fans
The Lies of Locke Lamora The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastards, #1)
by Scott Lynch
avg rating 4.24 — 1,506 ratings — published 2006
18 editions
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Red Seas Under Red Skies Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastards, #2)
by Scott Lynch
avg rating 4.07 — 903 ratings — published 2007
15 editions
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The Republic of Thieves The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastards, #3)
by Scott Lynch
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2008
5 editions
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Queen of the Iron Sands Queen of the Iron Sands
by Scott Lynch
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The Bastards and the Knives The Bastards and the Knives
by Scott Lynch
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ロック・ラモーラの優... ロック・ラモーラの優雅なたくらみ
by スコット リンチ, Scott Lynch (原著), 原島 文世 (翻訳)
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"‘“Some day, Locke Lamora,” he said, “some day, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope that I’m still around to see it.”
“Oh please,” said Locke, “it’ll never happen”."
Scott Lynch (The Lies of Locke Lamora)
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"I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning"
Scott Lynch (Red Seas Under Red Skies)
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"-Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.
-You're just making that up, Jean."
Scott Lynch (Red Seas Under Red Skies)
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