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Karin Lowachee

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction

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Karin was born in South America, grew up in Canada, and worked in the Arctic. Her novels have been translated into French, Hebrew, and Japanese, and her short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, some of which were edited by John Joseph Adams, Nalo Hopkinson, Nisi Shawl and Ann VanderMeer. When she isn't writing, she serves at the whim of a black cat.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 9,994 ratings · 1,785 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors

	Warchild (Warchild, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 2,279 ratings — published 2002 — 21 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
	Burndive (Warchild #2) 3.92 avg rating — 952 ratings — published 2003 — 25 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
	Cagebird (Warchild #3) 4.02 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 2005 — 15 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
	The Gaslight Dogs (Middle Light, #1) 3.08 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2010 — 6 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
	The Mountain Crown (The Crowns of Ishia, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2024 — 8 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
	The Desert Talon (The Crowns of Ishia, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2025 — 6 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
	Omake: Stories from the Warchild Universe 4.39 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Under the Silence (Warchild #2.5) 4.41 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	A Covenant of Ice (The Crowns of Ishia, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	The Warboy 4.50 avg rating — 10 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

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Series by Karin Lowachee

Warchild (4 books)
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Middle Light (1 book)
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The Crowns of Ishia (3 books)
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To Dream a Darker Realm (Rai Ascendant, #1)

by Angela Boord (Goodreads Author)

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The Odyssey of Homer A Modern Translation

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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“Privacy,is what you shut your mouth about,Denial is what you shut your eyes against.”
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“It's a bitch on this ship, isn't it?' That got an unexpected smile out of the symp. Musey had two dimples on his cheeks that made him look about half his chronological age.”
― Karin Lowachee, Burndive

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“Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.”
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JANUARY SCIENCE FICTION: This poll determines which 2 books move on to the run-off poll for our January SF Book of the Month

Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman

11 votes, 25.6%

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

10 votes, 23.3%

Warchild by Karin Lowachee

8 votes, 18.6%

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

7 votes, 16.3%

Downbelow Station (Company Wars, #3) by C.J. Cherryh

7 votes, 16.3%

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Queereaders: * List of group reads	1	1665	Oct 30, 2009 05:04PM
Beyond Reality: Nominations for July!	9	74	Apr 29, 2010 10:03AM
Beyond Reality: Nominations for August!	18	72	May 25, 2010 03:34PM
Beyond Reality: Welcome to June!	1	31	Jun 01, 2010 09:43AM
Beyond Reality: Welcome to July!	1	33	Jul 01, 2010 07:57AM
Beyond Reality: Welcome to August 2010!	1	37	Aug 01, 2010 08:18AM
Beyond Reality: 2010-08 THE GASLIGHT DOGS: post your questions for Karin here!	36	34	Aug 06, 2010 01:08PM
Beyond Reality: 2010-08 THE GASLIGHT DOGS: finished reading spoilers!	26	38	Aug 16, 2010 06:33PM
Beyond Reality: What are you reading in August 2010?	129	121	Sep 01, 2010 07:41AM
Beyond Reality: 2010-08 THE GASLIGHT DOGS: first impressions and rollcall (no spoilers!)	31	33	Sep 04, 2010 09:37AM

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“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

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“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought

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“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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