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Sylvia Spruck Wrigley was born in Germany, spent her childhood in Los Angeles and currently lives in Estonia. Her short stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction and Nature's Futures. You can find out more about her on https://intrigue.co.uk/ ...more

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	Help Fund my Robot Army!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Veronica Belmont (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Putting the Science in Fiction: Expert Advice for Writing with Authenticity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Other Genres by Dan Koboldt (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Chuck Wendig (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Gareth D. Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.21 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Domnall and the Borrowed Child 3.22 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Best of British Science Fiction 2016 by Donna Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author), Gwyneth Jones 4.04 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Fear of Landing: You Fly Like a Woman by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Goodreads Author), Dixon Leavitt (Illustrator) 3.58 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Crime & Mystery Short Stories by Laura Bulbeck (Editor), Martin Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Jennifer Dornan-Fish (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	If This Goes On by Cat Rambo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), E. Lily Yu (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Aimee Ogden (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Space Travel Loses Its Allure When You’ve Lost Your Moon Cup 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Alienated / The front line by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Goodreads Author), Naomi Mercer (Narrator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Two lists discovered folded in the wallet of space explorer Jorge Finnegan after the Reliant wreckage was recovered from Tau Ceti e it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Short story sale to Nature Magazine!

In June, I took part in a 48-hour software sprint in Belgrade, writing fiction inspired by the people there and the sponsors of the event. It was quite the experience.

I’m delighted that Nature has bought my favorite story that I drafted during the sprint. I can’t wait to share The girl who used to be my sister once it comes out!

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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Vegan Before 6: Lose weight and restore your health with the flexible diet you can really stick to

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Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

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Sylvia Spruck Wrigley has read Bridgerton Prequels Collection: Because of Miss Bridgerton, The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband, The Other Miss Bridgerton, First Comes Scandal (The Rokesbys) by Julia Quinn (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Yaroslav Barsukov's "Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory" follows Shea Ashcroft, a disgraced minister exiled to oversee the construction of a defensive tower in Owenburg. At its heart, the story appears to be about a broken man and how he loved and learns ...more
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“I liked protecting people and things. I liked figuring out smart ways to protect people and things. I liked being right.”
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“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
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