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Mark Cantrell

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A coffee-guzzling journalist turned novelist and occasional poet, Mark Cantrell has been chasing the literary dream for years.

Mark is the author of the hard-hitting science fiction thriller CITIZEN ZERO, a provocative dystopia that presents a chilling account of a Britain shattered by austerity and political tyranny.

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Away from novels, Mark has written a good few short stories. They tend to be a broad mix of science fiction, fantasy and horror, but he writes for the story and the characters rather than for any strict adherence to genre.

If that mixing and matching makes them harder to place...more


When anthrax was a daily threat
First published in a Yorkshire history magazine, the following article led to its author, Mark Cantrell, being interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds - as an expert on anthrax

ANTHRAX is an unpleasant disease. Little heard of today, beyond perhaps the annals of biological warfare and terror scares. In the early part of the last century, however, it was a major industrial...

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Average rating: 4.32 · 22 ratings · 9 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
Citizen Zero
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Description: "She was the one who was afraid of the dark, that's why the other vamps in her gang laughingly called her Shade, but now the joke's on them, and she's the one still breathing. When a night on the town turns deadly, when all her friends are slain, Shade must stalk the man who slaughtered them or join them in the grave. But he's no ordinary vampire slayer... and Shade is no ordinary vampire. Only one of them is getting out of this alive..."

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“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate force-fed with ‘opportunities’ by soothing machine voices. On the far wall, in large print, a poster declared: BEGGARS CANNOT BE CHOOSERS.”
Mark Cantrell

“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves a purpose. I need my zeros, Eric. They put fear in people; fear of crime and terrorism. They are a stark reminder to the stakeholders that what they despise today, they may end up joining tomorrow. It keeps them obedient. Remember that!”
Mark Cantrell, Citizen Zero

“In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
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Andrew Weaver Hi Mark,

Thanks for accepting my friend request


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