Alison Goodman




Alison Goodman

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Alison is the author of Singing The Dogstar Blues, a science-fiction comedy thriller, which won an Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel, and was listed as a C.B.C. Notable Book and an A.L.A. Best Young Adult book of 2004. Her second novel, Killing the Rabbit, is a crime/thriller for adults published in the U.S. by Bantam Books. The Two Pearls of Wisdom won the 2008 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Alison lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, Ron, and their Machiavellian Jack Russell Terrier, Xander. She was the 1999 D.J. O’Hearn Memorial Fellow at Melbourne University, holds a Master of Arts, and teaches creative writing at postgraduate level. Alison is currently working on the sequel to Eon/The Two Pearl...more




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avg rating: 3.97 | 926 ratings | 279 reviews | 5 distinct works | 20 fans
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
by Alison Goodman
avg rating 4.03 — 551 ratings — published 2008
15 editions
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Firebirds Rising: An Original... Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Sharyn November (Editor), Diana Wynne Jones (contributor), Ellen Klages (contributor), Sharon Shinn (contributor), Patricia A. McKillip (contributor), Emma Bull (Goodreads author) (contributor), Kelly Link (contributor), Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) (contributor) more...
avg rating 3.93 — 288 ratings — published 2006
4 editions
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Singing the Dogstar Blues Singing the Dogstar Blues
by Alison Goodman
avg rating 3.64 — 50 ratings — published 2000
7 editions
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Eona: The Last Dragoneye Eona: The Last Dragoneye
by Alison Goodman
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2009
2 editions
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Killing the Rabbit Killing the Rabbit
by Alison Goodman
avg rating 2.25 — 4 ratings — published 2007
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"I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minuet of your life."
Alison Goodman (Eon: Dragoneye Reborn)
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"There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory."
Alison Goodman (Eon: Dragoneye Reborn)
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